This past September, my wife and I visited Itasca State Park – Mary Gibbs Mississippi Headwaters Center. While visiting, we walked across the Mississippi River where it begins it's 2552 mile journey to the Gulf of America.

Taking a drive along the Great River Road is always an amazing adventure filled with the wonders of Natures gifts to us. The mighty Mississippi rolling along next to you, spying an Aerie of Bald Eagles scanning for a meal in the river, pausing to cast a line and wondering what might be waiting in the river to reel in from boat or shore, or Hiking the bluffs to catch a sunset or wildlife above the river or the Beautiful Colors of Fall.

Oak Alley Plantation tour, just an hours drive up river from New Orleans

Mississippi River headwaters at Lake Itasca State Park in Minnesota. It’s either your begin or end of the Great River Road national route.

You must wade down the knee-deep Mississippi River at its source in Lake Itasca State Park in Minnesota.