Fort Snelling station explained

Fort Snelling
Style:Metro (Minnesota)
Address:6053 Minnehaha Avenue
Borough:Fort Snelling, Minnesota
Coordinates:44.8932°N -93.1981°W
Owned:Metro Transit
Platform:1 island platform
Tracks:2
Connections: Metro Transit: 7
Structure:At-grade
Parking:975 spaces[1]
Accessible:Yes
Passengers:441 daily[2]
Pass Year:2023
Pass Percent:17
Pass Rank:33 out of 37
Other Services Header:Future services
Mapframe:yes
Mapframe-Custom:
Shape:none
Marker:rail-light
Marker-Color:
  1. 0053a0
Zoom:15

Fort Snelling station is a light rail station on the Blue Line in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul region of the U.S. state of Minnesota, named after the nearby Fort Snelling historic fort structure. This station is located on Minnehaha Avenue, adjacent to the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building and diagonally across from a U.S. Army Reserve campus and the main entrance to an Air National Guard station. The station's layout has a center-platform design. Service began at this station when the Blue Line opened on June 26, 2004. At that time, this was the southern terminus of the Blue Line. The remainder of the line, south of this station, opened on December 4, 2004.

This station is the site of a large park and ride facility. There are two parking lots, making a total of about 975 spaces available to commuters.

Just north of this station the Blue Line crosses the interchange of Minnesota State Highway 55 and Minnesota State Highway 62 on a flyover. Just south of this station, the line has a third track in the center which was used primarily for the LRVs to switch tracks when this station was the terminus of the line.

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Park & Ride Lots. MetroTransit.
  2. Web site: Transit Stops Boardings and Alightings - Minnesota Geospatial Commons . 2024-06-17 . gisdata.mn.gov . en-US.
  3. Web site: https://web.archive.org/web/20121102015331/http://www.mnhs.org/places/sites/hfs/history.html. Historic Fort Snelling. 2012-11-02. live. Minnesota Historical Society.