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Minnesota | Grand Rapids Area
Mississippi RiverSteamboat Landing to County Road 72
Grand Rapids-area Mississippi River trip continuing from Steamboat Landing past Blackberry Bridge to County Road 72, beginning at the current Grand Rapids gauge.
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Access rules, camping and seasonal notes.
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Access and shuttle
Launch beside the Grand Rapids gauge at Steamboat Landing, pass Blackberry Bridge, and finish at County Road 72.
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Put-in
Mississippi River, Steamboat Landing Public Water Access SiteSteamboat Landing resolves as WAS00984 at river mile 1178.9; Blackberry Bridge resolves as WAS02539 at river mile 1170.9.
Take-out
Mississippi River, Co Rd 72 Public Water Access SiteStart below the Blandin dam/Grand Rapids control corridor and do not improvise launch choices at the dam or mill area.
Road shuttle
Stage the take-out before launching. This combined route joins the researched mississippi-river-steamboat-blackberry-bridge and mississippi-river-blackberry-bridge-county-road-72 access corridors and requires a longer rural shuttle.
Additional access notes
- Sucher's campsite is the only documented on-route overnight option in this short reach; confirm availability, water-trail rules, and weather before planning an overnight.
- The DNR trip description calls the reach easy but notes small riffles during low water, so make a same-day visual call at Steamboat even when the gauge is above the scrapable floor.
- Blackberry Bridge is a DNR public access already used as the downstream endpoint of the existing Steamboat-to-Blackberry card.
- County Road 72 resolves in the DNR public-water-access layer as a DNR-managed Mississippi River access at river mile 1161.4 with no restroom listed.
- The Grand Rapids gauge is upstream of this split. It is official and same-corridor, but not a take-out reading.
More route and safety guidance
- Low water creates shallow riffles and sandbars; high or rising water can add stronger current, debris, and pushy landings.
- Stop only at public accesses or designated campsites. DNR says riverbed camping next to private property is not permitted.
- This longer combined itinerary requires an early start, a staged shuttle, and a conservative turnaround decision even when the direct gauge is in range.
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| Gauge site | Mississippi River at Grand Rapids, MN |
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| Preferred range | 44 cfs to 1,410 cfs |
| Low threshold | 30 cfs |
| High threshold | 1,910 cfs |
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| Main source behind this score | MN DNR river-level interpretation bands for Mississippi River at Grand Rapids |
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- Qualifying gauge relationshipMississippi River at Grand Rapids, MN
DNR site 124 is at Grand Rapids beside Steamboat Landing, so the route starts in the direct interpreted gauge corridor.
- Public-access continuitySteamboat Landing to County Road 72
The route joins adjacent researched segments whose shared endpoint coordinates and official public-access records match.
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