Memorial Park, Red Wing, Minnesota, USA
Epic Red Wing
Take a tandem training ride with John and Amy Macgowan of the Indoor Cycle Instructor Pro website and friends along the Mississippi River and Lake Pepin bordering Minnesota and Wisconsin. Finish with a steep climb up the bluffs overlooking this verdant country!
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Surf sailing and rough waters on lake Pepin near Lake City, MN
USACE - Ice Measurements on Lake Pepin
ST. PAUL, Minn. -- The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Paul District, completed the first ice measurements of the year on Lake Pepin, near Red Wing, Minn., Wednesday, Feb. 13.
The measurements help the navigation industry determine when it might be possible to get tows upstream to St. Paul, Minn. The lake is usually the last obstacle preventing northbound tows. Lake Pepin, located on the Mississippi River between Red Wing and Wabasha, Minn., is used as the benchmark because the ice melts slower in this area due to the lake width and the slower current.
Survey crews from the Corps' Fountain City Service Base in Fountain City, Wis., used an airboat and a global positioning system to identify the exact measurement locations. Surveys for River Mile 770 during the past five years are: Feb. 13, 2013, 19 inches; Feb. 15, 2012, 15 inches; Feb. 16, 2011, 22 inches; Feb. 17, 2010, 26 inches; and Feb. 18, 2009, 22 inches.
For many of those who live in the Midwest, the first tow of the season is the unofficial start of spring. The first tow to break through Lake Pepin in 2012 was the Motor Vessel Deana Ann, a tow operated Marquette Transportation Company, Inc., of Paducah, Ky., March 17. The average opening date of the navigation season in St. Paul for the last 10 years is March 20.
The Corps does not anticipate any up bound, out-of-town tows in Lake Pepin until at least March 15 due to ongoing construction at Lock and Dam 6 until March 11. Data from today's measurements and future surveys will be posted on the St. Paul District's website. For figures on past and present Lake Pepin ice measurements, see: . The link goes to the district's new website. Please update your bookmarks accordingly.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Paul District, serves the American public in the areas of environmental enhancement, navigation, flood damage reduction, water and wetlands regulation, recreation sites and disaster response. It contributes around $175 million to the five-state district economy. The 700 employees work at more than 40 sites in five upper-Midwest states. For more information, see mvp.usace.army.mil.
Epic Red Wing
The Twin Cities area of Minneapolis and Saint Paul, Minnesota and the neighboring Wisconsin countryside are nationally noted for their cycling friendliness. Now, you can take a virtual tandem training ride with John and Amy Macgowan and friends, of the internationally renown Indoor Cycle Instructor Podcast and Indoor Cycle Instructor Pro website.
Take a 50 mile ride along the scenic banks of the Mississippi River and Lake Pepin separating Minnesota and Wisconsin on a warm July morning. What better remedy to those cold weather blues!
This ride has it all - two climbing segments, one endurance segment and one rolling country segment - and offers a balanced workout for indoor cycling classes and home trainers.
Includes our new Just the Ride menu option which gives indoor trainers, coaches and instructors a choice of 60 minute and 45 minute versions of the ride to fit their training or class requirements.
Red Wing from Baypoint Park
Red Wing is a pretty little city on the Mississippi River. It's one of the oldest communities in the state of Minnesota. The city was named after the Sioux chief Red Wing. In case you're wondering, Red Wing Shoes and Red Wing Pottery also come from Red Wing, Minnesota.
Lake Pepin ...Minnesota
Lake city ...fishing trip 2015.
HuckFinn2 2010
For our second year canoeing down the Mississippi River Huck Finn style, we started on the St. Croix near Prescott WI. The first day we paddled over 30 miles to our campsite on the Wisconsin side of northern Lake Pepin. The second day presented us with heavy winds and whitecap waves. The only way to leave our isolated campsite was to head directly into the wind, which was also up stream. Fortunately the wind direction allowed us to slowly angle our way over to the Minnesota side. It took us about 2 hours to cross just 2 miles of northern Lake Pepin. The high bluffs on the Minnesota side gave us a short reprieve from the wind and waves. During our break the winds shifted from the Northwest to the South, to once again batter us head on while we made our way down Lake Pepin on the Minnesota side. We eventually made shore at Sand Point, a part of Frontenac State Park that sticks way out into Lake Pepin and provides a sheltered bay.
To continue on from Sand Point our only choice was to head directly into the wind. The wind appeared to come from the next point, a part of Hok-Si-La Park jutting into the lake. But the next reprieve was 3 miles away and the slightest turn of the bow away from the headwind would cause the canoe to jerk around in an irreversible about-face, forcing us to return back to our starting place either paddling or worse yet, adrift capsized. If the wind direction changed the slightest away from the next point, we would be forced to continue on for up to another 9 miles before reaching calm waters. So there we stayed, squatting at Sand Point on Lake Pepin and hoping the next day would bring a shift in the wind. But that evening the relentless wind just intensified, so for Day 3 we decided to end our Huck Finn trip a day early and paddle upstream to the Florence Community Beach.
The video was shot on a ContourHD 1080p helmet camcorder. We call it Rat Cam because the camera is wrapped in synthetic fur to reduce wind noise in the audio.
Barge Crew Change Lake Pepin Lake City, MN
Red Wing, River Scenery, June 1956
Red Wing, Minnesota 16 mm home movie film footage of the scenery on and around the Mississippi River taken by Wendell Bergren in June 1956. With vintage music by The Diamonds and Mitch Miller and his Orchestra.
CP #8522 Eastbound in Red Wing, MN USA
Glacial history of Minnesota - Video Learning - WizScience.com
The glacial history of Minnesota is most defined since the onset of the last glacial period, which ended some 10,000 years ago. Within the last million years, most of the Midwestern United States and much of Canada were covered at one time or another with an ice sheet. This continental glacier had a profound effect on the surface features of the area over which it moved. Vast quantities of rock and soil were scraped from the glacial centers to its margins by slowly moving ice and redeposited as drift or till. Much of this drift was dumped into old preglacial river valleys, while some of it was heaped into belts of hills at the margin of the glacier. The chief result of glaciation has been the modification of the preglacial topography by the deposition of drift over the countryside. However, continental glaciers possess great power of erosion and may actually modify the preglacial land surface by scouring and abrading rather than by the deposition of the drift.
The marks of glaciation vastly altered Minnesota's topography. Probably the most significant change was in the character and extent of the drainage. In preglacial times, there is reason to believe that most of the rainwater or meltwater from snow was quickly carried back to the ocean. Today, much of the precipitation is retained temporarily on the surface in the lakes. Streams meander from lake to lake, and only part of the total precipitation is carried away by the rivers. Such topography could be described as immature because the streams have not yet been able to establish themselves into a network that quickly and efficiently drains the land. The Mississippi River has cut a deep valley below St. Anthony Falls, but even the waters of this large river do not flow freely to the ocean because of Lake Pepin, which acts as a storage basin for some of the water. Streams have been actively engaged in their erosive work only for the last 10,000 years, the estimated length of time since the last glacier began its final retreat. This time span is relatively insignificant compared to the long history of the Earth.
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Mississippi River Video: From Red Wing, Minnesota
A beautiful 1 minute promo video of Red Wing, Minnesota's Mississippi River. This video was shot in HD, high definition. A great early morning scene on the river promoting Channel 6, the Red Wing local government access channel.
Produced by Paul Jurgensen
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Lake Pepin Barefoot on the ice Lake City, MN
RED WING RESTAURANT
LOCAL RESTAURANT IN GROVELAND ON STATE ROAD 33 2 MILE SOUTH OF 5O. SERVING HAND CUT STEAKS, FRESH SEAFOOD & GAME MEATS. GREAT BURGERS AND COBBLER WITH A KILLER BREAKFAST ON SAT & SUNDAY
Visit Lake City Minnesota - Spring and Summer Attractions
Lake Peppin & other mn spots
Lake Peppin & other mn spots
Frontenac State Park - MN - April 2019
About an hour and twenty minutes from Mpls Frontenac State Park sites along side the Mississippi to the South East of Red Wing.
The park has around 13 miles of hiking trails with a limited few going along the river. There is however a viewing area towards the end of the park with an amazing view of Lake Pepin. Lake Pepin is a widening of the Mississippi river caused by the large amount of sandstone in the area. The sandstones erodes and creates a delta further down pushing back the water that formed the lake.
Frontenac is full of history. Some of the earliest settlers of MN were discovered to have stayed within the surrounding area around Lake Pepin. French fur traders were prominent in the area as well. Frontenac State Park also almost did not come to be due to the local populace pushing strongly against the creation of it back in the 1950s.
All of this is interesting and the park is worth exploring for a day hike. The limestone is nestled among the bluffs along side the lake. Camping is a different story. The park is situated next to a highway and two train tracks. One on the Wisconsin side of the river and one on the Minnesota side. If you like hearing a train whistle rocking you to sleep all night, then this is the park for you. It was almost every hour the train would go through. It is a beautiful park, just not conducive for camping if you want a good nights sleep.
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LAKE PEPIN JULY 2008
ROAD TRIP
Boating on Lake Pepin
A day on Lake Pepin full of wakeboarding and the beach