- Afton, Minnesota
- Bayport, Minnesota
- Lakeland, Minnesota
- Marine on St. Croix, Minnesota
- Oak Park Heights, Minnesota
- Stillwater, Minnesota
- Taylors Falls, Minnesota
- Houlton, Wisconsin
- Hudson, Wisconsin
- Prescott, Wisconsin
- St. Croix Falls, Wisconsin
- Geology of Interstate Park (PDF) (dnr.state.mn.us)
Interstate State Park, at Taylors Falls, Minnesota, contains some of the most outstanding and unique geological features to be found anywhere in the world. The story of how these features came to be as we see them today is complex but fascinating.
- Death Valley (Wikipedia)
Death Valley is a desert valley in Eastern California, in the northern Mojave Desert, bordering the Great Basin Desert. It is thought to be the hottest place on Earth during summer.
- The crossing of the St. Croix River was difficult for the railway, since the original bridge across the river was very low and trains had to contend with steep grades on both sides of the river. This made it necessary to use helper engines and to make trains shorter.
- Arcola High Bridge, Somerset, WI (johnweeks.com)
The Arcola High Bridge is the most spectacular river crossing in the Twin Cities metro area. It crosses the nearly mile wide Saint Croix River Valley between the village of Arcola, Minnesota, and Somerset, Wisconsin. It consists of five huge steel arches that tower nearly 200 feet over the bottom of the valley.
- Stillwater, Washington County, Minnesota, was located in 1838 and named in 1842 by John McKasick, because, owing to the great depth of the waters in the river (St. Croix), and from the fact that the fall in the water until it reaches the Mississippi River, is very slight, the waters ran very still. At an early day the town was called Dakotah from the Dakota (Sioux) Indian tribe.
- St. Croix River (Wisconsin–Minnesota) (Wikipedia)
The St. Croix River (/ˈseɪnt ˈkrɔɪ/ SAYNT KROY; literally “holy cross” in French) is a tributary of the Mississippi River, approximately 169 miles (272 km) long, in the U.S. states of Wisconsin and Minnesota. The lower 125 miles (201 km) of the river form the border between Wisconsin and Minnesota. The river is a National Scenic Riverway under the protection of the National Park Service. A hydroelectric plant at the Saint Croix Falls Dam supplies power to the Minneapolis–St. Paul metropolitan area.
