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the route) and the city's best access to the banks of the Mississippi River. View the cas-
cading
St Anthony Falls
from the car-free
Stone Arch Bridge
. On the north side of the
river, Main St SE has a stretch of redeveloped buildings housing restaurants and bars.
From here you can walk down to
Water Power Park
and feel the river's frothy spray.
Pick up a free trail map at the Mill City Museum.
Definitely head next door to the cobalt-blue Guthrie Theater (
Click here
) and make
looking the river. You don't need a theater ticket, as it's intended as a public space -
though see a show if you can as the Guthrie is one of the Midwest's finest companies.
Gold Medal Park
spirals next door.
Mill City Museum
MUSEUM
( 612-341-7555;
www.millcitymuseum.org
;
704 2nd St S; adult/child $11/6; 10am-5pm Tue-
Sat, noon-5pm Sun, open daily Jul & Aug)
The building is indeed a former mill, and highlights
include a ride inside an eight-story grain elevator (the 'Flour Tower'), Betty Crocker ex-
hibits and a baking lab. It's not terribly exciting unless you're really into milling history.
8am-1pm Sat mid-May-late Oct)
takes place in the museum's attached train shed; cooking
demos fire up at 10am.
Northeast
Once a working-class Eastern European neighborhood, Northeast (so named because of
its position to the river) is where urbanites and artists now work and play. They appreci-
ate the dive bars pouring microbrews along with Pabst, and the boutiques selling ecogifts
next to companies grinding sausage. Hundreds of craftsfolk and galleries fill historic in-
dustrial buildings. They fling open their doors the first Thursday of each month when the
Heady streets include 4th St NE and 13th Ave NE.
University Area
The
University of Minnesota
, by the river southeast of Minneapolis' center, is one of the
USA's largest campuses, with over 50,000 students. Most of the campus is in the East
Bank neighborhood. Dinkytown, based at 14th Ave SE and 4th St SE, is dense with stu-