Minneapolis sits between a big river on one side and a chain of lakes on the other. The city itself is an "urban forest". There are trees up and down almost every block, except downtown, of course. I've even seen owls in them before. Birds love trees. It's an imported forest - all the trees and even the squirrels were brought in when the city was first built - it was just grassy prairie before. All the trees are expensive for the city to maintain and clean up after (so many trees can make such a mess, LOL, even autumn leaves can clog all the sewers) but it really does make things nice and shady in hot weather, and just looks gorgeously nice & lush anyway.
The Mississippi River starts in Minnesota. Minneapolis was started because of the river.
The river has a hydroelectric dam along one side of it. The water goes down waterfalls first (that also scares the fish away from it). Barges and fish and whatever still have plenty of room to go up and down the river.
There's a couple of big bridges in the area to walk across to get a good look at it all.
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Although as Ian says they are weirs, although it seems your city plays home to the only waterfall on the Mississippi. A rather good shot of the waterfall was shown in the television series and it must be up river as no boat or barge could navisgated the falls as they looked as if they were at least ten feet or even more.
Your pictures were gorgeous!
and for those folks interesting in where the Mississippi starts, it is Park Rapids, and is a little gurgle of water (it is really cool beaners looking)...but don't blink, you might miss the town itself.
and the best fishing is Grand Rapids (where Judy Garland is from...and where I lived for five years)
BTW: Peter, I might be in Mpls this summer...we might have to do a meet up.
Squirrels will go to live anywhere where there are trees, and`no other squirrels