Jacob Brower at the Lake Itasca basin at DeSoto Lake, 1889. The Itasca forest during the late nineteenth century contained towering pines and numerous lakes. Individuals like surveyor Jacob Brower ...

Lake Itasca is almost as wild now as it was 193 years ago, when it was named by an explorer from Michigan seeking the true source of the Mississippi River. Some of the red pines that were young then ...

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - A steady stream of cool, lake water pours over rocks at a state park in Northern Minnesota, the source of America’s greatest river. Lake Itasca, at the headwaters of the ...

If you go What: The 38th annual Lake Itasca Region Pioneer Farmers show. When: Doors open at 7 a.m.; event runs today through Sunday. Where: the entrance to the grounds is on the east side of the ...