Mendota Heights Trailhead

Mendota Heights Trailhead is a trailhead in City of Mendota Heights, Dakota, Minnesota. Mendota Heights Trailhead is situated nearby to the ruins WPA Work Camp No 1, as well as near the peak Pilot Knob.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Fort Snelling State Park and Acacia Park Cemetery.

Fort Snelling State Park

Nature reserve

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Fort Snelling State Park is a state park of the U.S. state of Minnesota, at the confluence of the Mississippi and Minnesota rivers. For many centuries, the area of the modern park has been of importance to the Mdewakanton Dakota people who consider it the center of the Earth.

Acacia Park Cemetery

Cemetery

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Acacia Park Cemetery is a public cemetery on Oheyawahi-Pilot Knob hill, in Mendota Heights, Minnesota. Established in 1925, Acacia Park consists of 75 acres of land overlooking the confluence of the Minnesota and Mississippi Rivers. Acacia Park Cemetery is situated 1 mile north of Mendota Heights Trailhead.

Augusta Lake

Augusta Lake is a lake in Dakota County, in the U.S. state of Minnesota. Augusta Lake was named for a daughter of Henry Hastings Sibley.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Mendota and Mendota Heights.

Mendota

Village

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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.

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 2 miles northeast of Mendota Heights Trailhead.

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. Bdóte is situated 2½ miles northeast of Mendota Heights Trailhead.

Mendota Heights Trailhead

Type: Trailhead
Category: sports location
Location: City of Mendota Heights, Dakota, Minnesota, Midwest, United States, North America
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Latitude

44.86724° or 44° 52′ 2″ north

Longitude

-93.17357° or 93° 10′ 25″ west

Open location code

86P8VR8G+VH

OpenStreetMap ID

node 1013032426

OpenStreetMap feature

highway=trailhead

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include WPA Work Camp No 1 and Lost Spur Country Club.

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