Gold Medal Park - Minneapolis, MN
N 44° 58.622 W 093° 15.220
15T E 479999 N 4980430
Gold Medal Park is located in the heart of Minneapolis’ Mill District.
Waymark Code: WM75K1
Location: Minnesota, United States
Date Posted: 09/05/2009
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Gold Medal Park is a 7.5-acre (30,000 sq m) park next to the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, Minnesota in the United States. Designed by landscape architect, Tom Oslund, the park is owned by the city of Minneapolis and opened in May 2007. It takes its inspiration from the Dakota Indians burial mounds that are found through Minnesota. It consists of a 32-foot (9.8 m)-high mound, reached by a spiral walkway rising out of a green lawn with 300 trees. The park, just east of the Guthrie Theater, provides the Mills District neighborhood with some rare green space.
Built on a strip of land next to the new Guthrie Theater and the Mississippi River, the park features specially designed luminescent benches, a prominent 32-foot mound and mature trees brought in from as far away as New Jersey.
The William W. and Nadine M. McGuire Family Foundation leased the land for 10 years, starting in 2007, from the city of Minneapolis and the Guthrie, each of which owns about half of the property.
The park served as the memorial site for the victims of the I-35W Mississippi River bridge collapse.