Knutson Dam was a dam located along the Upper

Mississippi River The Mississippi River is the second-longest river and chief river of the second-largest drainage system in North America, second only to the Hudson Bay drainage system. From its traditional source of Lake Itasca in northern Minnesota, it fl ...

within the

Chippewa National Forest Chippewa National Forest is a National Forest located in north central Minnesota, United States, in the counties of Itasca, Cass and Beltrami. Forest headquarters are located in Cass Lake, Minnesota. There are local ranger district offices i ...

and was originally built in 1890s as a logging dam. In 1928 it was rebuilt by the

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and management of the dam was given to the U.S. Forest Service. The dam was removed and replaced with rock arch rapids in 2015.

External links

Knutson Dam Campground - USFS

References

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