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Gooseberry Falls State Park is a state park of Minnesota, United States, on the North Shore of Lake Superior.The park is located in Silver Creek Township, about 13 miles (21 km) northeast of Two Harbors, Minnesota in Lake County on scenic Minnesota Highway 61.
Gooseberry River is a 23-mile stream in Lake County, Minnesota, USA, draining into Lake Superior. It is known for its waterfalls, near its mouth in Gooseberry Falls State Park . The Gooseberry, like many of its neighboring streams, has an irregular discharge highly dependent on runoff from rain and snow melt.
At this time Gooseberry Falls was the only Minnesota state park on Lake Superior. A bill promoted by Magney easily passed in the Minnesota Legislature, creating both Baptism River State Park (now Tettegouche State Park) and Split Rock State Scenic Wayside. The 35-acre (14 ha) wayside consisted of a hill offering a view of the Split Rock Lighthouse.
Heavy rain and flash flooding across Minnesota have washed out state park campsites and trails, damaged regularly used bridges and roads, and altered popular attractions to a statewide scale ...
Minnesota's first attempt to create a state park came in 1885, when a 173-acre (70 ha) park was authorized to preserve Minnehaha Falls.The effort was delayed by legal appeals from the various landowners of the desired parkland, and by the time those were settled in favor of the state in 1889, Minnesota no longer had the money to purchase the land.
Two Harbors is a city in and the county seat of Lake County, Minnesota, United States, [5] along the shore of Lake Superior. The population was 3,633 at the 2020 census. [3] Minnesota State Highway 61 serves as a main route in Two Harbors. Gooseberry Falls State Park is 13 miles (21 km) to the northeast.
The longest completed section runs 17.6 miles (28.3 km) from Gooseberry Falls State Park to the town of Beaver Bay, passing through Split Rock Lighthouse State Park on the way. [1] Another 3-mile (4.8 km) segment runs from Schroeder to Tofte through Temperance River State Park.
Minnesota State Highway 61 (MN 61) is a 150.321-mile-long (241.918 km) highway in northeast Minnesota, which runs from a junction with Interstate 35 (I-35) in Duluth at 26th Avenue East, and continues northeast to its northern terminus at the Canadian border near Grand Portage, connecting to Ontario Highway 61 at the Pigeon River Bridge.