Mill Ruins Park is located on the west bank of the Mississippi River in downtown Minneapolis and is adjacent to St. Anthony Falls and the Stone Arch Bridge. It is the centerpiece of the revitalization of Minneapolis’ historic West Side Milling District.

The park interprets the history of flour milling in Minneapolis and shows the ruins of several flour mills that were abandoned. The park is the result of an archaeological study of the Saint Anthony Falls Historic District. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971.

Mill Ruins Park opened on Oct. 1, 2001, to celebrate the history of 19th-century ruins that were once mills and powered by St. Anthony Falls on the Mississippi. During the 19th-century, flour became what put Minneapolis on the map and was exported around the nation and world.

Mill Ruins Park is just an area next to the Mississippi River and the Stone Arch Bridge with, as the name implies, remnants of some of the scores of flour mills built in Minneapolis between 1850 and 1900 by the side of St Anthony Falls from which they got their power for the milling process.

Mill Ruins Park is the centerpiece of the revitalization of Minneapolis' historic West Side Milling District. In its 19th-century heyday, this area of mills and other historic resources made up the largest water powered facility in the world.

Located a hop, skip and a jump (and a small walking path) from the Stone Arch Bridge, Mill Ruins Park is home to the historic and now exposed ruins of what used to be Minneapolis’ famous milling district before it was buried beneath a tomb of sand and gravel.

May 15, 2024 · Mill Ruins Park. If you’re intrigued by Minneapolis’s storied past, Mill Ruins Park is a must-see. Nestled in the spacious Central Mississippi Riverfront Regional Park, this was the site of the Washburn A. Mill, the world’s largest water-powered facility during the …

Next up is no run of the mill park, or is it? Find Mill Ruins Park. Here youʼll get great views of the Mississippi River and the Stone Arch Bridge that crosses it, built in 1881. Up until 1978 trains would cross this bridge, to and from The Depot, but now it’s only for pedestrians and cyclists.

Sep 18, 2021 · Archaeologists from the historical society began excavating ruins of the mills that were the core of the city’s world-famous flour-milling industry in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

It features the historic mill ruins, biking and walking paths, landscaping, raised catwalks, interpretive signs to provide information and guide visitors as they explore the river, and spectacular views of the falls and the Stone Arch Bridge.