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Fall at the Arboretum | University of Minnesota Landscape Arboretum

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Our 2026 Twin Cities Holiday Events Guide is here, and it’s packed with everything you need for the season:

🛍️ Holiday markets
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Minneapolis and St. Paul stand on the native land

Minneapolis and St. Paul stand on the native land of the Bdewakantunwan (Mdewakanton) people, part of the Oceti Šakowiŋ, also known as the Seven Council Fires. The Bdewakantunwan are one of the Santee or Eastern Dakota bands, and Anishinaabe and other Indigenous people also lived in this region.

Mní Ówe Sní means “cold water spring” and is the Dakota name for Coldwater Spring, tucked off Hiawatha Avenue near Minnehaha Falls. The spring sits within Bdóte, the confluence of the Mississippi and Minnesota Rivers, which the Dakota hold as their place of creation. In 2023, Mní Ówe Sní was listed on the National Register of Historic Places as a Traditional Cultural Property, a nomination made with four Minnesota Dakota communities.

For centuries, Mní Ówe Sní has been a place of peace, healing, ceremony and gathering for the Dakota and many other nations, and it still is today. It’s a meaningful place to bring kids, to walk the trail together, listen to the water, and talk about whose land this is and why it matters. Visit with respect, stay on the trails, and leave any offerings where you find them.

The Minnesota goodbye takes 45 minutes, so you mig

The Minnesota goodbye takes 45 minutes, so you might as well say it somewhere with good lattes. ☕

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🖤🤎💚Moody, dark academia corners for the grown-ups, an indoor play area for the kids, and flaky pastries for everyone. We found 10 Twin Cities cafés made for sweater weather, and at least one hot chocolate per small person is strongly encouraged.

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Minneapolis never made it to the moon, but Bracket $Minneapolis never made it to the moon, but Brackett Field Park came closer than most. 🚀 In 1962, with the whole country caught up in space race fever, a steel rocket ship 35 feet tall touched down on this Longfellow playground. Generations of kids climbed it until safety standards caught up in the late ‘90s, and a 2004 park renovation sent it off the grounds with no plans for a return trip. The neighbors had other plans. A group calling itself the Brackett Rocket Boosters (we could not improve on that name if we tried) teamed up with @forecastpublicart and raised $50,000 to bring it home as public art, and in 2007 it relaunched as “Return Journey,” a sculpture by artist Randy Walker ringed in 84 metal cables. This September @36th.art threw it a LIFTOFF party with the @midtowngreenway lighting the rocket for one night with live music, giant bubbles, a flashlight countdown, and a talk from retired NASA astronaut Duane “Digger” Carey. The crowd made the case, and now 36thART and @longfellowcommunitycouncil are raising money to light the rocket permanently, starting with a $15,000 goal for the lighting design phase. The park itself dates to the early 1920s and carries the name of George A. Brackett, one of the city’s original park commissioners, who we suspect would approve of the rocket. Swing by and bring the kids, who will absolutely ask to climb it. The answer is still no. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 📍 Brackett Field Park, 2728 39th Ave S, Minneapolis #Minneapolis #LongfellowMpls #MinneapolisParks #TwinCitiesFamily #minneapolisart$

The @cpkcrail Holiday Train is rolling back into t

The @cpkcrail Holiday Train is rolling back into the Twin Cities with lights, live music and free shows from St. Paul to Golden Valley. Bring a food shelf donation and your warmest mittens because the best seats are on a snowbank. ❄️

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