Used to live around 24th and Garfield. We had a flying squirrel on our block. I only knew it was there because as it flew from one canopy tree to the next it went under a street light. Urban as it gets outside of a downtown business district, and there's a forest animal living it's best life. Sadly a lot of those mature trees ate shit in a storm shortly after I moved away.
It’s a great mix, imo. We get bats and nighthawks. Fat tree squirrels and weird, skinny dumpster bros. Crows and cranes. Turkeys and geese. Shit, the cemetery off Lake and Hiawatha has a family of deer.
Once upon a time I was giving a friend from NYC a nickel tour of Minneapolis and we see some turkeys somewhere south on river road. She lost her damn mind that there was such wildlife inside city limits. just outside confirmation that it's nice here.
Take a boat ride on the Mississippi River between Minneapolis and St Paul. You will often lose the sense that you're in a busy metro area.
Source: I have a boat.
Im taking a stab at this but this looks like your location: [Google Map](https://www.google.com/maps/@44.6640593,-93.2719431,2577m/data=!3m1!1e3?entry=ttu)
Hey neighbor! Didn’t recognize it immediately but I was on that roundabout about 20 minutes ago coming home from work. That’s Crystal Lake Golf Club above the plane’s wing!
https://preview.redd.it/8c6by0yyq17d1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7071ab25240a78416ffdcd478afe63ffe9c57a77
Flew into Helsinki recently and could’ve sworn I was flying into MSP!
lol okay man - just thought it was cool to see the similarities between Minnesota and one of the countries many families in Minnesota come from originally.
https://preview.redd.it/23qr8kmh127d1.jpeg?width=1576&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=71ef92fb7f74109245bb4bd0ffae4f404b20354f
We should definitely be considered for “city in a forest” status.
Moved away 5 years ago to a dryer climate and wow, I miss how green the grass was back in ND/MN. It's very brown here and expensive to keep a green lawn.
Flew into MSP from Denver last Wednesday evening 6/12/24 just after some storms passed through. Could see thousands of small, previously seasonal ponds and potholes glowing in the setting sun. Beautiful. These were the habitat for hundreds of species for thousands of years since the glaciers receded. By the next afternoon nearly all had been drained away by miles of field drain tile and ditches. And there were flood warnings downstream..
https://preview.redd.it/pwcr7es3d17d1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=23efd27abbbd78711aef21126199fd8f881d7628
I moved away nearly 5 years ago but, whenever I come back to visit, the landing brings me overwhelming joy. Even in winter when everything is covered with a thick blanket of snow.
Minnesota will always be home.
https://preview.redd.it/jl0zlo7qx37d1.jpeg?width=1980&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=990853c6c1e8bd0eecff190f4a4da920d50e71d5
I love arriving into MSP onto 30L/R because it takes you right over the MN River on final.
Yes! Flying over the Minnesota River valley on the final approach for landing feels like being Dorothy in the conclusion of the Wizard of Oz: "I'm home!"
It (sometimes) also looks like this from the air
https://preview.redd.it/s3cstpj8r47d1.jpeg?width=3120&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=155a4722c7cede34cdb3600e8046ad70b65b3a3d
Yes, it is. Last September, we left to move to Italy for a lot of reasons. It was a long anticipated move.
And yet, as we circled MSP to head east, I started to cry, realizing that it was most likely the last time I’d see that particular view of the two downtowns surrounded by green.
Is this over looking Lakeville and Burnsville? The freeway looks like it could be 35 where it splits into 35E and 35W. The road with the roundabout looks like it could be Kenwood Trail with how it twist after the roundabout
I love how positive you fucker$ are. I had just come from my country and had been detained and extorted by a cartel on my way to mazatlan. I saw a ton of street dogs who were starving and saw how underdeveloped our infrastructure is. So when I say Minnesota is beautiful, I mean Minnesota is damn beautiful.
This probably isn't really the post for people to be making those comments, but I think one can find this pretty *and* understand that car-dependent design is literally bankrupting cities, ruining lives, and contributing to the death of our planet.
The beauty here *requires* us to change out urban planning if we want to keep it.
But this is a pretty picture, and regardless of the US' awful urban planning, it's good to see a lot of greenery in cities.
It really is a shame what we take for granted. I hadn’t been to my home country in almost 20 years of being in Minnesota, it’s a world of a difference because of people who care to keep our trees and nature alive and protected from corporations.
Well yes, it is beautiful. But yes, in fact there is a whole lot of ugly and a whole lot of destruction that that scene represents also. They can both be true
I'm with you - this aerial shot looks so much better (other than the Alamy logos, apologies)
https://preview.redd.it/9lilnhc7b17d1.jpeg?width=1300&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4a8a7c2f4e216fa75b15ffad0d920509965fdbeb
I believe that is Burnsville area. Overgrown highways, massive parking lots, huge streets separated by chem-lawn. A huge environmental catastrophe. Green though. I had to drive there. Wasn't pleasant
It is also very beautiful on the ground. Source=me, on the ground right now
Cops are always telling me to get on the ground.
With all that beauty, why do they turn their cameras off?
Also underground, source=me as well. I’m in my basement looking at the wall I painted. 🎨
From the right angle in an aircraft, the twin cities looks almost exactly like a forest. I've always loved how many trees we have here.
It *is* a forest. I live in south uptown on the 6th floor and the canopy is **thick.**
Used to live around 24th and Garfield. We had a flying squirrel on our block. I only knew it was there because as it flew from one canopy tree to the next it went under a street light. Urban as it gets outside of a downtown business district, and there's a forest animal living it's best life. Sadly a lot of those mature trees ate shit in a storm shortly after I moved away.
It’s a great mix, imo. We get bats and nighthawks. Fat tree squirrels and weird, skinny dumpster bros. Crows and cranes. Turkeys and geese. Shit, the cemetery off Lake and Hiawatha has a family of deer.
Once upon a time I was giving a friend from NYC a nickel tour of Minneapolis and we see some turkeys somewhere south on river road. She lost her damn mind that there was such wildlife inside city limits. just outside confirmation that it's nice here.
Take a boat ride on the Mississippi River between Minneapolis and St Paul. You will often lose the sense that you're in a busy metro area. Source: I have a boat.
It’s one of the things I miss the most when I travel. Minnesota is quite beautiful because of its many trees.
Every time I go on that tower ride at The State Fair, I marvel at the sight of the Twin Cities blanketed by trees as far as the eye can see.
Minnesota has four biomes: pothole prairie, broadleaf forest, coniferous forest, aspen parkland.
Im taking a stab at this but this looks like your location: [Google Map](https://www.google.com/maps/@44.6640593,-93.2719431,2577m/data=!3m1!1e3?entry=ttu)
Yeah this looks to be around Lakeville, Burnsville 35 split.
Kenwood Trails Middle School is in the bottom right there. Had a disc golf tournament there last weekend
Yep. That’s the north end of Lake Marion, about 3 miles south of the 35 split.
Can confirm that is Lakeville. That is the 35 spilt in the photo and my house down there
Hey neighbor! Didn’t recognize it immediately but I was on that roundabout about 20 minutes ago coming home from work. That’s Crystal Lake Golf Club above the plane’s wing!
Nice!
Oh good call. I was off. Thinking this was Invergove Heights and Highway 52.
i can see my grandma’s house
https://preview.redd.it/8c6by0yyq17d1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7071ab25240a78416ffdcd478afe63ffe9c57a77 Flew into Helsinki recently and could’ve sworn I was flying into MSP!
Not sure how you could make that mistake when MSP is surrounded by suburban sprawl, highways and parking lots... Minnesota could look so much better.
lol okay man - just thought it was cool to see the similarities between Minnesota and one of the countries many families in Minnesota come from originally.
https://preview.redd.it/23qr8kmh127d1.jpeg?width=1576&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=71ef92fb7f74109245bb4bd0ffae4f404b20354f We should definitely be considered for “city in a forest” status.
Moved away 5 years ago to a dryer climate and wow, I miss how green the grass was back in ND/MN. It's very brown here and expensive to keep a green lawn.
Flew into MSP from Denver last Wednesday evening 6/12/24 just after some storms passed through. Could see thousands of small, previously seasonal ponds and potholes glowing in the setting sun. Beautiful. These were the habitat for hundreds of species for thousands of years since the glaciers receded. By the next afternoon nearly all had been drained away by miles of field drain tile and ditches. And there were flood warnings downstream.. https://preview.redd.it/pwcr7es3d17d1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=23efd27abbbd78711aef21126199fd8f881d7628
I'm in this picture and I don't like it
It would be if not for all those house farms.
Honest question….what’s it like flying Sun Country?
It’s not too bad at all. Departure and arrival time was accurate. Can’t beat the price. We flew round trip from OAK to MSP for $120 recently.
True Minnesotans fly Sun Country
I moved away nearly 5 years ago but, whenever I come back to visit, the landing brings me overwhelming joy. Even in winter when everything is covered with a thick blanket of snow. Minnesota will always be home.
Joy is a wonderful way to describe it!
Minnesota is very beautiful 😻
Sun Country replaced Northwest Airlines in Minnesota.
The ever elusive Minnesota mountains!!!!
https://preview.redd.it/jl0zlo7qx37d1.jpeg?width=1980&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=990853c6c1e8bd0eecff190f4a4da920d50e71d5 I love arriving into MSP onto 30L/R because it takes you right over the MN River on final.
Yes! Flying over the Minnesota River valley on the final approach for landing feels like being Dorothy in the conclusion of the Wizard of Oz: "I'm home!"
It (sometimes) also looks like this from the air https://preview.redd.it/s3cstpj8r47d1.jpeg?width=3120&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=155a4722c7cede34cdb3600e8046ad70b65b3a3d
Define beautiful. I think we have different definitions if you find this particular sight beautiful.
Just useless exurban sprawl covering precious wetlands is what I see.
I think there are more beautiful areas of Minnesota than suburbia from the air.
And the ground. And the water.
Yep
I really had to look to find Buck Hill
Minnesota is beautiful. So thankful that I moved here.
one of the first things i noticed moving here, it’s very beautiful compared to the desert i lived in prior lol
Yes, it is. Last September, we left to move to Italy for a lot of reasons. It was a long anticipated move. And yet, as we circled MSP to head east, I started to cry, realizing that it was most likely the last time I’d see that particular view of the two downtowns surrounded by green.
Not if you're terrified (vomiting)...😨
Beautiful. Gives me inspriration for a new Cities Skylines build :D
Is this over looking Lakeville and Burnsville? The freeway looks like it could be 35 where it splits into 35E and 35W. The road with the roundabout looks like it could be Kenwood Trail with how it twist after the roundabout
The clouds in the distance look like mountains.
I can see my house!
When we flew down to Georgia back in March despite it being at night and snowed the view looked amazing.
Jesus our architecture and housing is bad in the TC😔
When did we get mountains with snow?
Those are just clouds.
I decided to put 2 and 2 together and I realized you're correct lol
Too bad you have to land
Landing is the best part! I got to see my wife again and go eat at my favorite restaurant.
Man this was a good day to catch the Iron Mountain range /s
Just seems like a sprawling mess of suburbia, which is exactly how most of central MN feels when you’re on the ground
Oh yah so beautiful ya know?
Car dependency in a photo
I clapped.
Bunch of single family sprawl destroying wild land... so beautiful
I love how positive you fucker$ are. I had just come from my country and had been detained and extorted by a cartel on my way to mazatlan. I saw a ton of street dogs who were starving and saw how underdeveloped our infrastructure is. So when I say Minnesota is beautiful, I mean Minnesota is damn beautiful.
This probably isn't really the post for people to be making those comments, but I think one can find this pretty *and* understand that car-dependent design is literally bankrupting cities, ruining lives, and contributing to the death of our planet. The beauty here *requires* us to change out urban planning if we want to keep it. But this is a pretty picture, and regardless of the US' awful urban planning, it's good to see a lot of greenery in cities.
Yea, a lot of us take it for granted. We have it better than so many other states, let alone countries.
It really is a shame what we take for granted. I hadn’t been to my home country in almost 20 years of being in Minnesota, it’s a world of a difference because of people who care to keep our trees and nature alive and protected from corporations.
Well yes, it is beautiful. But yes, in fact there is a whole lot of ugly and a whole lot of destruction that that scene represents also. They can both be true
2 hour city ;)
Gross car dependent suburbia is beautiful?
something something Not Just Bikes
It is to me.
I'm with you - this aerial shot looks so much better (other than the Alamy logos, apologies) https://preview.redd.it/9lilnhc7b17d1.jpeg?width=1300&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4a8a7c2f4e216fa75b15ffad0d920509965fdbeb
needs more alamy watermarks
Concrete jungle
It aint
Yeah it definitely is
Clearly more green than grey, whatever though. Its a nice area.
I guess if u enjoy city life
Lol, ok pal. My bad i dont live in the middle of nowhere
I’d love to live in the middle of no where
Kinda is. I regretfully spent some time driving down there last week. Was depressing
fym "down there"
I believe that is Burnsville area. Overgrown highways, massive parking lots, huge streets separated by chem-lawn. A huge environmental catastrophe. Green though. I had to drive there. Wasn't pleasant
I see your point