Homecroft Park

Homecroft Park is a park in Ramsey, Minnesota. Homecroft Park is situated nearby to the suburb Highland, as well as near the village Mendota.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Fort Snelling and Coldwater Spring.

Fort Snelling

Protected area

Photo: The Statue With The Dictionary, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Fort Snelling is a former military fortification and National Historic Landmark in the U.S. state of Minnesota on the bluffs overlooking the confluence of the Minnesota and Mississippi Rivers.

Coldwater Spring is a spring in the Fort Snelling unorganized territory of the U.S. state of Minnesota, that is considered a sacred site by the Dakota people, and was also the site of the U.S. Army's Camp Coldwater for troops that constructed Fort Snelling.

Pike Island

Island

Photo: Tony Webster, CC BY 2.0.

Pike Island is an island at the confluence of the Mississippi and Minnesota rivers in the southwestern-most part of Saint Paul in the U.S. state of Minnesota.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Mendota and Bdóte.

Mendota

Village

Photo: Appraiser, Public domain.

Mendota is a city in Dakota County, Minnesota, United States. The name is a mispronunciation of the Dakota word for the location, bdóte, which in Dakota tradition is the center of the world.

Bdóte

Locality

Bdóte is a significant Dakota sacred landscape where the Minnesota and Mississippi Rivers meet, encompassing Pike Island, Fort Snelling, Coldwater Spring, Indian Mounds Park, and surrounding areas in present-day Minneapolis and Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States.

Mendota Heights

Town

Photo: Gabriel Vanslette, CC BY 3.0.

Mendota Heights is a city in Dakota County, Minnesota, United States. It is a first-ring southern suburb of the Twin Cities. The population was 11,744 at the 2020 census. Mendota Heights is situated 2½ miles southeast of Homecroft Park.

Homecroft Park

Type: Park
Description: park in Saint Paul, Ramsey County, United States of America
Category: recreation area
Location: Ramsey, Minnesota, Midwest, United States, North America
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Latitude

44.9012° or 44° 54′ 4″ north

Longitude

-93.17852° or 93° 10′ 43″ west

Elevation

823 feet (251 metres)

Operator

Saint Paul Parks and Recreation

Open location code

86P8WR2C+FH

OpenStreetMap ID

way 53623456

OpenStreetMap feature

leisure=park

GeoNames ID

7118292

Wikidata ID

Q49502640

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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

“Homecroft Park” goes by many names.

Cebuano: “Homecroft Park”

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