Dinkytown
Dinkytown is a historic commercial hub in Minneapolis's Marcy-Holmes neighborhood, centered at 14th Avenue and 4th Street SE.
Dinkytown is a historic commercial hub in Minneapolis's Marcy-Holmes neighborhood, centered at 14th Avenue and 4th Street SE. Located immediately north of the University of Minnesota's East Bank campus, the district spans several city blocks packed with independent businesses, restaurants, and student apartments.
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Worth seeing in and around Dinkytown
10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01University of Minnesota
The University of Minnesota Twin Cities is a public land-grant research university in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States. It is the flagship institution of the University of Minnesota System and is organized into 19 colleges, schools, and other major academic units.
700 m · public research university in Minneapolis and Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States · Wikipedia - 02I-35W Mississippi River bridge
The I-35W Mississippi River bridge was an eight-lane, steel truss arch bridge that carried Interstate 35W across the Mississippi River one-half mile downstream from the Saint Anthony Falls in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. The bridge opened in 1967, and was Minnesota's third busiest, carrying 140,000 vehicles daily.
700 m · destroyed bridge in Minneapolis, Minnesota · Wikipedia - 03Minneapolis Institute of Art
The Minneapolis Institute of Art is an art museum located in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. Home to more than 100,000 works of art representing 5,000 years of world history, Mia is one of the largest art museums in the United States.
3.9 km · art museum in Minneapolis, Minnesota · Wikipedia - 04Target Field
Target Field is a baseball stadium in the historic warehouse district of downtown Minneapolis. Since its opening in 2010, the stadium has been the ballpark of Major League Baseball's Minnesota Twins.
3.3 km · baseball stadium in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA · Wikipedia - 05IDS Center
The IDS Center is an office skyscraper located at 80 South 8th Street in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Completed in 1973, it is the tallest building in Minneapolis, and the tallest building in the state at a height of 792 feet.
2.9 km · Skyscraper in Minneapolis · Wikipedia - 06Wells Fargo Center
The Wells Fargo Center, formerly known as Norwest Center, is the third-tallest building in Minneapolis, Minnesota, after the IDS Center and the Capella Tower. Completed in 1988, it is 774 feet tall.
2.8 km · skyscraper in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States · Wikipedia - 07Weisman Art Museum
Weisman Art Museum is an art museum at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Founded in 1934 as University Gallery, the museum was originally housed in an upper floor of the university's Northrop Auditorium.
900 m · art museum in Minneapolis, Minnesota · Wikipedia - 08Huntington Bank Stadium
Huntington Bank Stadium is an outdoor stadium located on the campus of the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. The stadium opened in 2009 after three years of construction.
1 km · stadium in Minneapolis · Wikipedia - 09Augsburg University
Augsburg University is a private university in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. It is affiliated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.
1.7 km · university in Minneapolis, USA · Wikipedia - 10Minneapolis City Hall
Minneapolis City Hall and Hennepin County Courthouse, designed by Long and Kees in 1888, is the main building used by the city government of Minneapolis, as well as by Hennepin County, in the U.S. state of Minnesota. The structure has served as mainly local government offices since it was built, and today the building is 60 percent occupied by the city and 40 percent occupied by the County.
2.3 km · main building used by the city government of Minneapolis · Wikipedia
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Getting to Dinkytown
- Airports
- Minneapolis–Saint Paul / Wold–Chamberlain Field (MSP), 11 km
- Stations
- U.S. Bank Stadium station, 2 km
- Des Moines → Dinkytown377 km · quickest by road, 5h 39m · $31–43
- Chicago → Dinkytown570 km · quickest by air, 5h 13m · $210–310
- Omaha → Dinkytown469 km · quickest by air, 4h 21m · $150–230
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Dinkytown
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Dinkytown. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get aroundTour operators from as far away as Japan organize charter flights and hotel bookings for the single purpose of experiencing "The Mall".
- Get aroundIt's a day trip in itself, but not for the thrifty.
- Get aroundIf you're here between Memorial Day and Labor Day, rent a canoe at Bde Maka Ska (stop at the nearby Lunds grocery on Lake Street for picnic materials) and see four lakes, three enchanting sheltered canals, two islands, and one classic creosote-tastic railroad trestle from a duck's eye view.
- Get aroundThe larger Twin Cities area also offers a good mix of off-road bike trails; for example one can bike from Chaska to St.
- Get aroundA variety of maps show the web of on and off-road routes that span the greater metropolitan area.
From Wikivoyage: Minneapolis, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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Next door to Dinkytown
Dinkytown is 2 km from Minneapolis, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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