Historic Fort Snelling
A stone fort of the 1820s above the meeting of the Mississippi and Minnesota rivers, a place sacred to the Dakota people.
- Open
- Seasonal; check the website
- Price
- Paid
- Time Needed
- 2 hours
- Address
- 200 Tower Ave, St. Paul, MN 55111Google MapsApple Maps
- Getting There
- Near the airport, about 15 minutes by car from downtown.
Why Go
The fort tells the stories of soldiers, the enslaved Dred and Harriet Scott who lived here, and the Dakota, for whom the confluence, Bdote, is a place of creation and of their imprisonment after the war of 1862.
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