East River Flats Park

Welcome to East River Flats Park located on the banks of the Mississippi River in downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Park History: This park was first established in the late 19th century when a man named Cleveland who worked for the city wrote "The Mississippi River is not only the grand natural feature which gives character to your city and constitutes the main spring of prosperity, but it is the object of vital interest and center of attraction to intelligent visitors from every quarter of the globe, who associate such ideas with of grandeur with it's name as no human creation can excite. It is due therefore, to the sentiments of the civilized world, and equally in recognition of your own sense of the blessings it confers upon you, that it should be placed in a setting so worthy of so priceless a jewel." Nearly a decade after he wrote this Cleveland's wish came true.

To contact the office please call 612-230-6400.

This was RecPlanet place of the day on April 27, 2018.