Take a look at these facts and make yourself a river expert in no time. The Mississippi begins at Minnesota’s Lake Itasca. Visitors there can see the headwaters and cross the river on foot ...

The largest fish ever caught in the Mississippi was a 131-pound blue catfish caught by Eugene Cronley on April 7, 2022, near ...

The Mississippi River is a critical transportation route ... including Highway 465 that runs between Highway 61 North and the Eagle Lake community," Warren County Emergency Management Agency ...