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September-October 2016

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River Loop: Minneapolis to St. Paul

National Park Service's Mississippi River Companion — detailed maps, notes, and interpretive materials to find boat launches, hiking and biking trails, and other recreational opportunities along the Mississippi River

Mississippi River Trip Planner — interactive guide to help you plan a route to locations in the park using bus, rail, boating, biking, and walking trails along with the best access points to popular river destinations.

Overnight Cruises on the Mississippi

American Queen Steamboat Co. American Queen

French America Line Louisiane (coming soon)

American Cruise Lines Queen of the Mississippi, America

Delta Queen Steamboat Co. (Facebook); also Save the Delta Queen (Facebook group) The Delta Queen is still waiting for a congressional exemption to the Safety at Sea law for overnight cruises.

Viking River Cruises has announced its intent to build boats for cruising on the Mississippi.

Effigy Mounds on the Wisconsin River Effigy Mounds Intitiative A Facebook group about the preservation of ancient burial and effigy mounds.

Stories Published in past issues of Big River

Coldwater Cave, May-June 2016
By Capt. Ted Peck

Nighthawk Twilight - July-Aug 2015

Carp Poetry Winners - July-Aug 2015

12 Great Rivertown Gardens (pdf) - May-June 2015

Sand Dollars — Mining Frac Sand in the River Valley (pdf
July-Aug 2011

Boykin Spaniels and Box Turtles July-Aug 2010

Look down on the river
Overlooks, lookouts, precipices and blufftop peaks

An Otter Kind of Critter