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.
Fort Snelling | |||||||||||
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 Fort Snelling station in 2014 | |||||||||||
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| Location | 6053 Minnehaha Avenue Fort Snelling, Minnesota | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 44°53′36″N 93°11′53″W / 44.8932°N 93.1981°W | ||||||||||
| Owned by | Metro Transit | ||||||||||
| Platforms | 1 island platform | ||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||
| Connections |  Metro Transit: 7 | ||||||||||
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| Structure type | At-grade | ||||||||||
| Parking | 975 spaces[1] | ||||||||||
| Accessible | Yes | ||||||||||
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| Opened | June 26, 2004 | ||||||||||
| Passengers | |||||||||||
| 2023 | 441 daily[2]  17% | ||||||||||
| Rank | 33 out of 37 | ||||||||||
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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.
Notable places nearby
edit- Bishop Henry Whipple Federal ("GSA") Building
- Fort Snelling historic fortification[3]
- Fort Snelling State Park
- Campuses/facilities for the Minnesota Air National Guard; the Army Reserve, the Air Force Reserve, and the Navy/Marine Corps/Coast Guard Reserve.
References
edit- ^ "Park & Ride Lots". MetroTransit.
- ^ "Transit Stops Boardings and Alightings - Minnesota Geospatial Commons". gisdata.mn.gov. Retrieved June 17, 2024.
- ^ "Historic Fort Snelling". Minnesota Historical Society. Archived from the original on November 2, 2012.