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Twin Cities Metro fly fishing trip
0 waters in the Twin Cities Metro, Minnesota, have a page here. In range: 8 blocks of public land with a page of their own and 8 fly shops. Everything below is measured or published — no ranking on this page is ours.
Metro water: the lower St. Croix, the Vermillion and the urban creeks — the trout water closest to three million people.
The water
| Water | Miles | July mean |
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Ordered by mapped length. July mean is measured at the USGS gauges standing in each river; a dash means no gauge on it reports temperature.
Public land in range
- Fort Snelling State Park — 12.0 mi
- Keystone Woods WMA — 15.8 mi
- Bayport WMA — 16.2 mi
- Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge — 18.8 mi
- Afton State Park — 20.6 mi
- Carlos Avery WMA — 21.7 mi
- Robert and Marilyn Burman WMA — 22.4 mi
- Vermillion Highlands Research Recreation and WMA — 23.5 mi
Blocks of ground with a page of their own, nearest first. Ownership from PAD-US as Minnesota publishes it.
Camping and lodging
We have campground records for Michigan and for no other state, so there is nothing to list here rather than a list somebody guessed. The public land above is where the dispersed camping is, where the state allows it.
Fly shops
- Flying Pig Thrift — 4.8 mi, Saint Paul
- Supernatural Big Baits — 5.0 mi, Saint Paul
- Bob Mitchell's Fly Shop — 5.7 mi, Saint Paul
- Great Waters Fly Fishing — 5.8 mi, Saint Paul
- The Fly Angler — 7.3 mi, Fridley
- Mend Provisions — 8.6 mi, Minneapolis
- Bob Mitchell's Fly Shop — 12.4 mi, Lake Elmo
- Orvis — 12.4 mi, Saint Louis Park
From OpenStreetMap and a curated list, across all five states on this site. Call before you drive — a shop in a file is not a shop that is open.