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Redwood Falls, Minnesota
Redwood Falls on the Redwood River in Minnesota.
Open in BirdTrout44.54095, -95.12208 · Redwood County · NID MN00511. Tap the map to open this water in the live app.
What the runs do here
Redwood River carries no anadromous run on our corridor map, so this page makes no claim about salmon or steelhead at this dam. What it sits on is coldwater — resident trout water — and the section below says which classification says so.
The structure
- Owner
- City of Redwood Falls Local Government
- Purpose
- Hydroelectric
- Completed
- 1902 · modified 1957;1987
- Type
- Gravity
- Height
- 41 ft
- Length
- 250 ft
- Spillway
- Controlled
- Storage
- 1,000 acre-ft · 100 acre pool
- Drainage
- 677 sq mi
From the National Inventory of Dams (USACE). Hazard potential is a downstream-consequence classification, not a statement about the structure's condition.
The water above and below
- Ramsey Creek 0.37 mi from the dam · Designated trout stream · designated (MN DNR)
Coldwater designation is the state's own classification. A dam sits on one river and this list is every designated reach within a mile and a half of it, so a tributary mouth shows up here too.
Water right now
| Gauge | Distance | Temp | Flow |
|---|---|---|---|
| Redwood River near Redwood Falls, MN | 2.7 mi | — | 48 cfs |
Live from USGS. A gauge miles away is a gauge miles away — the distance column is there so you can discount it. A hydro dam's releases move the flow below it on a schedule the gauge sees and this page does not. 1 of the gauges above is not sending water temperature at all — a stopped gauge still answers with the last value it ever sent and nothing to say so, so those rows carry a modelled figure where one can be fitted, marked as modelled, and a dash where it cannot.
Getting to it
- Redwood Lake Public Water Access Site 0.1 mi · boat launch
- Minnesota River, North Redwood Public Water Access Site 2.4 mi · boat launch
- Redwood River, Wabasso Public Water Access Site 5.8 mi · boat launch
- Minnesota River, Morton Access Public Water Access Site 5.9 mi · boat launch
Public access sites near the dam, straight-line distance. A dam itself is private property unless its owner says otherwise; these are the places the state lists as open.