Rivers and their tributaries have always fascinated me. Everything from the Nile, to the Amazon on down. My fascination started as a boy and it continues to this day. I hope to get up to Minnesota this September and the the Mississippi at it's source.
Very nice video - Years ago, when 3M invited me to their camp in Minnesota a friend took me to the exact spot - I have never forgotten it. Thank you for featuring it in the manner in which you did. I loved it!
This is by far the CUTEST science documentary I have seen! WELL DONE. thank you for filming and posting this. unbelievable but of course true. All great rivers start as a trickle.
I loved this video! Great for answering life's and nature's little questions of our great land of ours such as how such a mighty river begins at all. Map views just dont seem to adequately answer the question. Thank you!
@Ma007rk Thank you for visiting my video. The folks who come to the park to walk across the river where it comes out of Lake Itasca should all make it a point to take the short trip around Wilderness Drive and see Nicollet Creek where it runs under the road. It closely resembles the Mississippi downstream from the culvert up by the north entrance. No wonder the early explorers considered it the Mississippi!
@drewsky684 Itasca State Park is filled with springs, swamps, streams, ponds, lakes - not to mention hills, valleys, tall trees, etc. And Lake Itasca is basically a funnel that pours the surrounding water into the Mississippi River. Nicollet Creek is the main feeder, and I just posted a summary map to help visualize things better; click on the link at the start of my comments under the video.
@xpez On a related note: In the visitors' center at the Park, there's a sign above a urinal that says it would take 90 days for a drop of rain falling into Lake Itasca to get to the Gulf of Mexico.
very interesting, educational video. looking at the spring made it so very clear - the water springs from the earth!!!! duh!!! but now i get it. thank you. so i looked at your map. is north pointing in the right direction?
@xpez A local legend says that urinating into the river in this area will cause a massive peenami all the way to the Gulf - as the volume is augmented along the way. SouthPark had an episode ("Pee," season 13) with a similar theme.
+missy thatsame Between all that fine print in the intro and a good map of Minnesota you'll see that indeed we are pretty close to the longest continuous course of open water through Lake Itasca into the Gulf of Mexico. There are innumerable tributaries flowing into the Mississippi including what other large rivers (Missouri, Ohio, etc) provide.
@fordakvideo Thank You! I wish everyone who goes to the Park to "walk across the Mississippi" (where it comes out of Lake Itasca) would take the scenic "Wilderness Drive" around the other side of the Lake. The road crosses the three main tributaries of the lake - including Nicollet Creek which the old explorers (Nicollet & Brower) considered as the Mississippi River!
Rivers and their tributaries have always fascinated me. Everything from the Nile, to the Amazon on down. My fascination started as a boy and it continues to this day. I hope to get up to Minnesota this September and the the Mississippi at it's source.
I find it enthralling to think that a small streams like this grow into large rivers!
I live in Mississippi right off the river. Its interesting to see a source of this mighty river.
I am truly fascinated by rivers and their sources! Thanks for posting!
Very nice video - Years ago, when 3M invited me to their camp in Minnesota a friend took me to the exact spot - I have never forgotten it. Thank you for featuring it in the manner in which you did. I loved it!
This is by far the CUTEST science documentary I have seen! WELL DONE. thank you for filming and posting this. unbelievable but of course true. All great rivers start as a trickle.
I loved this video! Great for answering life's and nature's little questions of our great land of ours such as how such a mighty river begins at all. Map views just dont seem to adequately answer the question. Thank you!
Thank you for taking time to trek the river and put this video together. It is educating and inspirational.
That has to be done at least once when visiting the area. I got hooked on visiting the inlets, and it's a whole different world. :-)
I am doing a lesson on rivers and their sources and this video is great visual. thanks for doing it. tb
@Ma007rk Thank you for visiting my video. The folks who come to the park to walk across the river where it comes out of Lake Itasca should all make it a point to take the short trip around Wilderness Drive and see Nicollet Creek where it runs under the road. It closely resembles the Mississippi downstream from the culvert up by the north entrance. No wonder the early explorers considered it the Mississippi!
@drewsky684 Itasca State Park is filled with springs, swamps, streams, ponds, lakes - not to mention hills, valleys, tall trees, etc. And Lake Itasca is basically a funnel that pours the surrounding water into the Mississippi River. Nicollet Creek is the main feeder, and I just posted a summary map to help visualize things better; click on the link at the start of my comments under the video.
You're welcome! Thank you for your interest.
@xpez On a related note: In the visitors' center at the Park, there's a sign above a urinal that says it would take 90 days for a drop of rain falling into Lake Itasca to get to the Gulf of Mexico.
That was cool. The amount of life that comes from that is pretty incredible
It worth seeing the river
@forestmoon3 Thank you! If the original mapmakers (Nicollet and Brower) were around, I'm sure they would thank you for your interest.
Yea try doing that in Plaquemines Louisiana .
Thank you! I'm glad you find it agreeable.
very interesting, educational video. looking at the spring made it so very clear - the water springs from the earth!!!! duh!!! but now i get it. thank you. so i looked at your map. is north pointing in the right direction?
+Tee Cee Yes, north is up. The river arcs toward the east and then goes generally south. A good Minnesota or US map should show this.
This creek feeds lake itasca? Where does this creek begin? At some point there has to be a spring right?
We are walking across the mississippi tomorrow!
@jdessbesell Obrigado muito. Seus comentários são muito apreciados.
Cool! Catfish are jumpin'!
@xpez A local legend says that urinating into the river in this area will cause a massive peenami all the way to the Gulf - as the volume is augmented along the way. SouthPark had an episode ("Pee," season 13) with a similar theme.
Is the start of the Mississippi in Northern Minn.? If so.how far north?Beautiful video!!
+missy thatsame Between all that fine print in the intro and a good map of Minnesota you'll see that indeed we are pretty close to the longest continuous course of open water through Lake Itasca into the Gulf of Mexico. There are innumerable tributaries flowing into the Mississippi including what other large rivers (Missouri, Ohio, etc) provide.
great video
@beerbrain420 Thank you!
I came here researching "When the Levee Breaks" by Led Zeppelin. Nice video.
@fordakvideo Thank You! I wish everyone who goes to the Park to "walk across the Mississippi" (where it comes out of Lake Itasca) would take the scenic "Wilderness Drive" around the other side of the Lake. The road crosses the three main tributaries of the lake - including Nicollet Creek which the old explorers (Nicollet & Brower) considered as the Mississippi River!
That's really cool :)
That's not the Mississippi, that's just Chuck Norris taking a piss.
+jamamanjamh13 Awww - I meant to keep that secret.