Harriet Island

Harriet Island is a fabulous place for a picnic, outdoor adventure, or even a music festival. I enjoyed attending the Minnesota Yacht Club festival on the island in July 2024. It was clean and well maintained each day.

Should you visit this park? If you're in the twin cities and have a pulse, I'd say yes. There's a lot to enjoy, from skyline views, a river pier, some riverbank trees with really cool roots sticking out, and some man made contraptions (primarily for the kids).

A amazing tourist site. It's a beautiful place with a variety of outdoor activities and events to peak a your interest.There are plenty of trails , to run or stroll. I personally love to grab a blanket and have a picnic.It openand has plenty of space to enjoy yourself.

Very nice park in St Paul. Very well kept up and has good parking.I have been here for walking around the park and for going on a river cruise which leave from this area. Have never had any complaints.The trails are nice for walking or running. The park had great views along the river really anywhere. This is a great spot if you want to get some photos taken!They also have a decent sized playground as well. I have also seen people fishing before around the park. I don't know if they had good luck or not!It can be hard to get to from the main road, but once you go there once it is very easy. They have a nice parking lot by where the cruises board.Overall a good park for many different activities! Come see at at night for an awesome view of the city!

Fun place to visit and walk around. I took the dogs here since it was close to home but I will mention that there are actually a lot of people walking about. Street parking was also very limited. From here, you can walk over to Raspberry island too.

A geat place to go by the Mississippi River..what a nice park! Lots of seating (benches, picnic areas), open space and some newly placed sculptures that kids are encouraged to climb and play on.There was some riverboats that you board here, playground, pavilion for rent, great skyline views and plenty of biking, hiking, etc. type activities. Love coming here in August to visit the awesome Irish Fair...which is free! Amazing music and concert. So much fun and dancing. Good food!!! Love!

I would normally give this a 5, but the overly serious park police tool who gave J&I two scooter parking tickets back in the day lost the 5th star. What a prick! Apparently there were no segways to pull over that day.Our scooters were parked in a spot that was apparently too close to a handicapped parking stall. There were no lines, it was a small space and it wasn't in the handicapped spot.There were plenty of other ones so we figured since it was a small spot with no marking we wouldn't take up a whole parking spot. We even parked them single file.Trying to reason with Mr. Park tool-io was a lost cause, he wouldn't budge. He gave us some song and dance about how he had to. Yah, whatever.... Well we got it taken care of at the city and Mr. Tool filled it out wrong so it was void. HA! Take that...you tool!Other than that almost $300 dollar experience....This is such a great part of St. Paul and such a great outdoor park.We enjoy coming in the Summer time or whenever it's nice out for a picnic, to walk around or take the nieces and nephews to the play area.-Plenty of areas either lawn or picnic table to sit and lunch.-Plenty of free parking not requiring a permit or sticker.-Nice walkways and stairs going down to the water.-Bathrooms (so- so, but far better than the portable ones)-Great scenery

This is a great place to go down by the Mississippi. Lots of seating (benches, picnic areas), open space and some newly placed sculptures that kids are encouraged to climb and play on.If you're into fishing, you have multiple options here; you can head down to the docks closer to Raspberry Island or go off the beaten path onto the sandy beach of the Mississippi. I particularly enjoy night fishing here as it's quiet and the lights from downtown cast a warm glow on the water. We've caught multiple types of bass, catfish and pike but anticipate a lot of sheephead snags. Annoying little bastards, they are.There's a rather decent sized playground here, too, and the kidlets always seem to be enjoying themselves every time I've glanced from a safe distance. Tons and tons of improvements have been made to this island in the last five years--it used to be a lot less developed--and the city seems to maintain the area well.If you come around here and happen to find a pair of rusty old pliers laying on the beach, they're probably mine. They fucking hide every single time I try to pack them back into the tackle box.... They're biodegradable, it's cool.As much as I've found myself wanting to, I've never stoked up a beach fire here as I don't think it's something the city smiles upon. This is the only thing that makes me a little sad; I'll be damned if there's anything like kicking back next to a crackling fire and casting a line out. A couple more things:Do spiders make you want to piss yourself?Don't inspect the docks or wander out onto the larger rocks of the beach. They're bigger than house cats out here; I saw one carrying off a toddler a week ago, bro.The city rents those bikes by the hour now and this is a nice park for a leisurely ride. One of the rental stations isn't far from here (if memory serves correctly, it's right across from the old bakery on Wabasha by Holiday) so it wouldn't be a pain in the ass to get there.

A beautiful public park located on the banks of the Mississippi River. There was plenty of places to stop and take a seat to enjoy the views or eat a picnic. There was plenty of parking near the dock area where we pulled in.There was some riverboats that you board here, playground, pavilion for rent, great skyline views and plenty of biking, hiking, etc. type activities. I didn't get to spend too much time here but, it was definitely way more crowded than the other parks that we went to. It was nicely manicured and I could see why it attracted so many touristy type people for photo ops!

Irish Fair Minnesota at Harriet Island.Me and my Gal spent the day at the Irish Fair of Minnesota on Harriet Island last Friday.If you haven't gone make sure you go next year. It's FREE! There are 3 main stages spread throughout the park. They stagger the bands at the Stages so for the most part you can catch all the bands.We were able to park fairly close for $10. The beer and food is reasonably priced.I want to thank Finnegans for the free samples, and the free samples, and the free samples...The Music was great! Kudos to Boiled in Lead, the Screaming Orphans, and the Tossers. Thanks for making angry-fighting-drinking songs fun!!! We were able to share a flight of Jameson shots. We took our time with those...and then paced ourselves the rest of the night.The Park gets 5 stars, the bands get 5 stars and the Irish Fair gets 5 stars!You will see me, my Gal, and my Kilt again next year!