INSTITUTIONAL PROFILE

LOCATION: RIVER FALLS AND METROPOLITAN ST. PAUL/MINNEAPOLIS

River Falls is located along the beautiful Kinnickinnic River and is named for a cascading falls at the junction of the South Fork and the Kinnickinnic. The University is the western-most institution of the 26-campus University of Wisconsin System. Increasingly, it is being called upon to meet the educational needs of the expanding Twin Cities Metropolitan area that includes River Falls. The University of Wisconsin-River Falls is the only public university located in the St. Croix River watershed of 7,650 square miles in western Wisconsin and eastern Minnesota.

The city of River Falls is home to thirteen parks, is twelve miles from the confluence of the Mississippi and St. Croix Rivers, and is ten miles from a ski area. Between Minnesota and Wisconsin in a picturesque valley is the Lower St. Croix National Scenic Way River which flows between bluffs of limestone and sandstone. Historic river towns dot its banks, and fishing, swimming, canoeing, sailing, and boating are common. Winter brings downhill and cross-country skiing, snowboarding, ice fishing, snow-shoeing, and hiking at six state parks and three ski areas. For seventeen years the campus has been the summer training camp of the Kansas City Chiefs.

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