Fort Snelling
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.- Type: Protected area
- Description: historic fort in Minnesota near the confluence of the Mississippi and Minnesota River
- Also known as: “Bdote Fort Snelling”, “Fort Snelling at Bdote”, “Fort Snelling, Minnesota”, and “Historic Fort Snelling”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Mendota Bridge and Fort Snelling State Park.
Mendota Bridge
Bridge
Photo: McGhiever, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Mendota Bridge, in the US state of Minnesota carries State Highway 55 and MN 62 over the Minnesota River between Fort Snelling and Mendota Heights. Mendota Bridge is situated 2,100 feet southeast of Fort Snelling.
Fort Snelling State Park
Park
Photo: Cmlrcmlr, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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.
Fort Snelling
Railway station
Photo: Bobamnertiopsis, CC BY 4.0.
Fort Snelling station is a light rail station on the Blue Line in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul region of the US state of Minnesota, named after the nearby Fort Snelling historic fort structure. Fort Snelling is situated 1 mile west of Fort Snelling.
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. Bdóte is situated 1½ miles east of Fort Snelling.
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 east of Fort Snelling.
Fort Snelling
- Categories: fort, tourism, tourist attraction, and historic site
- Location: City of Saint Paul, Ramsey, Minnesota, Midwest, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
44.89266° or 44° 53′ 34″ northLongitude
-93.18088° or 93° 10′ 51″ westOpen location code
86P8VRV9+3JOpenStreetMap ID
way 154133281OpenStreetMap feature
historic=fortOpenStreetMap feature
tourism=attractionWikidata ID
Q480993
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Urdu—“Fort Snelling” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “حصن سنيلنغ”
- Chinese: “斯內林堡”
- Chinese: “斯内林堡”
- Dutch: “Fort Snelling”
- Egyptian Arabic: “حصن سنيلنج”
- Finnish: “Fort Snelling”
- French: “fort Snelling”
- French: “Fort Snelling”
- German: “Fort Snelling”
- Hebrew: “פורט סנלינג”
- Japanese: “スネリング砦”
- Japanese: “フォート・スネリング”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Fort Snelling”
- Persian: “قلعه اسنلینگ”
- Spanish: “Fort Snelling”
- Swedish: “Fort Snelling”
- Urdu: “فورٹ سنیلنگ”
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