Take a look at these facts and make yourself a river expert in no time. The Mississippi begins at Minnesota’s Lake Itasca. Visitors there can see the headwaters and cross the river on foot ...

A first-of-its-kind project seeking to restore river ecosystems along 39 miles of the Lower Mississippi River has federal ...

Itasca State Park is a Minnesota state park that is home to Lake Itasca and the headwaters of the Mississippi ... river in 1820 as a member of an exploring party headed by Gov. Lewis Cass of ...