Mississippi River Headwaters

Rhonda's parents visited us last weekend, and on Saturday we drove up north to the headwaters of the Mississippi River, located in Itasca State Park. It was about a three hour drive and well worth it - it's a beautiful spot and the new visitors centers (one at the south entrance to the park and one by the headwaters themselves) are quite nice and informative. There were not many people there, most likely since it was cold (a high of about 49F) and overcast, and so I was able to get a picture of the headwaters with just one person (Rhonda's mother) in it (barely). The headwaters start at the rocks (which were put there in the 1930s so that visitors could be sure of where the river started). If a drop of rain (or something else) were to fall into the river here, it would take 90 days to make it to the Gulf of Mexico.