if someone will fall or jump there, it's a sure death i think.

Does anyone have them playing Write About Me? That song's too hard to find.

Any fish in that lake?

@xpez A local legend says that urinating into the river in this area will cause a massive peenami all the way to the Gulf - as the volume is augmented along the way. SouthPark had an episode ("Pee," season 13) with a similar theme.

very interesting, educational video. looking at the spring made it so very clear - the water springs from the earth!!!! duh!!! but now i get it. thank you. so i looked at your map. is north pointing in the right direction?

We visited years ago with our children and stepped across the Mississippi river. This is wonderful. I am looking also for the source of the Trinity River that flows through Fort Worth Texas. If anyone knows anything about this please let me know [email protected]

It worth seeing the river

That's really cool :)

Cool! Catfish are jumpin'!

Very nice video - Years ago, when 3M invited me to their camp in Minnesota a friend took me to the exact spot - I have never forgotten it. Thank you for featuring it in the manner in which you did. I loved it!

That was cool. The amount of life that comes from that is pretty incredible

Is the start of the Mississippi in Northern Minn.? If so.how far north?Beautiful video!!

That's not the Mississippi, that's just Chuck Norris taking a piss.

interesting video, not enough videos like this out there

John: It was good to see you again on this great day! THANKS so much for posting these videos; pictures can only tell so much. it's GREAT to hear the words and the presentations. I was proud & honored to have a large part in getting this done for Jimmy and to represent his High School (Kingsbury) and classmates. I was even prouder when I saw Jimmy's 4 children hugging and having such a wonderful moment together. AND this was the 1st brass note presentation with LIVE music by James!

I came here researching "When the Levee Breaks" by Led Zeppelin. Nice video.

great video

I live in Mississippi right off the river. Its interesting to see a source of this mighty river.

Thank you! I'm glad you find it agreeable.

This is by far the CUTEST science documentary I have seen! WELL DONE. thank you for filming and posting this. unbelievable but of course true. All great rivers start as a trickle.

I find it enthralling to think that a small streams like this grow into large rivers!

That has to be done at least once when visiting the area. I got hooked on visiting the inlets, and it's a whole different world. :-)

We are walking across the mississippi tomorrow!

wow, thanks for posting the video.... spectacular after being splashed by the same water last week

You're welcome! Thank you for your interest.

I am truly fascinated by rivers and their sources! Thanks for posting!

@fordakvideo Thank You! I wish everyone who goes to the Park to "walk across the Mississippi" (where it comes out of Lake Itasca) would take the scenic "Wilderness Drive" around the other side of the Lake. The road crosses the three main tributaries of the lake - including Nicollet Creek which the old explorers (Nicollet & Brower) considered as the Mississippi River!

@xpez On a related note: In the visitors' center at the Park, there's a sign above a urinal that says it would take 90 days for a drop of rain falling into Lake Itasca to get to the Gulf of Mexico.

@forestmoon3 Thank you! If the original mapmakers (Nicollet and Brower) were around, I'm sure they would thank you for your interest.

Thank you for taking time to trek the river and put this video together. It is educating and inspirational.

you could take a leak and add to the start of the mississippi!

I am doing a lesson on rivers and their sources and this video is great visual. thanks for doing it. tb

Hi Don. Glad you like the video. Once in awhile I get more than a couple days for a weekend and then I hit the road. (My car just turned 350,000 miles last night.)

Cool stuff John. For me working on the Mississippi River for 14yrs and seeing where the ole gal starts is cool. Where do you find all your free time?

@Ma007rk Thank you for visiting my video. The folks who come to the park to walk across the river where it comes out of Lake Itasca should all make it a point to take the short trip around Wilderness Drive and see Nicollet Creek where it runs under the road. It closely resembles the Mississippi downstream from the culvert up by the north entrance. No wonder the early explorers considered it the Mississippi!

Rivers and their tributaries have always fascinated me. Everything from the Nile, to the Amazon on down. My fascination started as a boy and it continues to this day. I hope to get up to Minnesota this September and the the Mississippi at it's source.

@drewsky684 Itasca State Park is filled with springs, swamps, streams, ponds, lakes - not to mention hills, valleys, tall trees, etc. And Lake Itasca is basically a funnel that pours the surrounding water into the Mississippi River. Nicollet Creek is the main feeder, and I just posted a summary map to help visualize things better; click on the link at the start of my comments under the video.

This creek feeds lake itasca? Where does this creek begin? At some point there has to be a spring right?

I loved this video! Great for answering life's and nature's little questions of our great land of ours such as how such a mighty river begins at all. Map views just dont seem to adequately answer the question. Thank you!

Cool!

@jdessbesell Obrigado muito. Seus comentários são muito apreciados.

@RUTHGEE You're welcome! Like Vincent Van Gogh, I think the best of Jimmy's work is yet to be revealed, and someday he'll be a household word.

Great song by Jamey.. thanks for sharing this ceremony!!

Thank you so much for posting this!!!

@KGero478 The ice road ends near the north tip of the westerly end of the island, shortening the usual distance that the ferry takes from Bayfield to the LaPointe dock. Then it's about a half mile drive to LaPointe. Can't wait to try it again in 2011!

Nice job everyone!!

@jahughes5 Probably more than we'll ever know.

Yea try doing that in Plaquemines Louisiana .

@beerbrain420 Thank you!

@Barbeenie Madeline Island is just short of three miles from Bayfield.