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Lake Harriet is a lake in southwest Minneapolis, south of Bde Maka Ska and north of Minnehaha Creek. [1] The lake is surrounded by parkland as part of Minneapolis’ Chain of Lakes . The lake has an area of 335 acres (1.36 km 2 ) and a maximum depth of 85 feet (26 m).
Lake Hiawatha, through which Minnehaha Creek flows, has a watershed of 115,840 acres (468.79 km 2), two orders of magnitude larger than the next largest watershed in the city. [3] Ryan Lake, in the city's north, sits partially in Minneapolis and partially in neighboring Robbinsdale.
The lake is part of the Grand Rounds National Scenic Byway, connecting with Lake of the Isles on the northeast, Cedar Lake and Brownie Lake on the northwest, and Lake Harriet on the south. The Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board trail system has a 3.4-mile (5.5 km) trail around the lake for bicyclists and skaters and a 3.2-mile (5.1 km) trail ...
The Como-Harriet Streetcar Line (CHSL) is a heritage streetcar line in Minneapolis, Minnesota, which follows original streetcar right-of-way between Lake Harriet and Bde Maka Ska and is operated by the Minnesota Streetcar Museum.
The Southwest community consists of the following neighborhoods: Linden Hills, East Harriet, Kingfield, Fulton, Lynnhurst, Tangletown, Armatage, Kenny, and Windom. This portion of Minneapolis contains many parks and trails along Lake Harriet and Minnehaha Creek. Parts of the Southwest community are in Minneapolis City Council wards 7, 8, and 11 ...
The road passes between Lakes Nokomis and Hiawatha, and then follows Minnehaha Creek to Lake Harriet. The Chain of Lakes includes seven parks, and its name dates back to the 19th century, when an article referred to "the chain of lakes which, 'like a necklace of diamond in settings of emerald,' enriches Minneapolis."
Eat Street is the newest of Minneapolis's commercial districts, named in the late 1990s by the Whittier Alliance to promote the international variety of restaurants along Nicollet Avenue South between Grant St. and 29th St. [25] Nicollet was historically a central commercial district in the Whittier neighborhood, but the end of the streetcar ...
The home of Theodore Wirth, longtime architect of the Minneapolis park system, is located on the west side of this neighborhood. East Harriet is a part of Ward 13, [3] currently represented by Minneapolis City Council member Linea Palmisano. Prior to the 2022 redistricting based on the 2020 Census, most of the neighborhood was part of Ward 10. [4]