Saturday, October 3, 2020

Mississippi River North (Day 6 Oct 2, 2020)

 Got up and had pancakes and bacon before setting out for the Mississippi Headwaters. Commuication is still spotty with no internet.   Didn't realize how much I use it....kind of feel lost without it....not sure what that says.

Turns out that the Headwaters were very close to the campground, but naturally I turned left when I should have turned right in Itasca State Park, so I took a tour through the park.   This turned out that to be a great thing because there were some beautiful trees.....also there was almost no traffic.  Stopped at visitors center which was closed, but they had a map of where the Headwaters are located.  So I turned around and headed back.  Took some good photos of this trip.




Also came to the location where the Great Mississippi Road begins.  I also turned around just to be able to take this picture....and that is not easy with an RV.


Finally got to the Headwaters and again, there were only a couple of people there....I did get there about 9:30 in the morning and as I was leaving there were more people coming.  The facility was closed but not the Headwaters area.  Took some pictures:

These are steps where you can walk through the Mississippi.  Of course it was 35F so I didn't.

This is the Mississippi Headwaters





They also had a lot of other displays there were outside the visitors center.



After I finished with this I then took another trip to a location that had the sign Mississippi River but I couldn't get a good picture.


After I got back to the campground it was only about 11:30 so while I had intended to stay 2 days I decided to just head South.  I hadn't made any reservations so I started looking at campgrounds I found that the ones I had planned on staying at were already full.  So I had to find some new ones which I found rather difficult until I go to the next campground because of lack of internet.   So I made reservations for the rest of the trip, and I did have some problems finding places that were not full.  Lots of people are camping....and of course it is the weekend.  

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