Across river from Red Wing. This spring’s primary Flood Run sponsor was Harbor Bar on the Mississippi main channel on the Wisconsin side at Hager City.
Now a twice-annual fund-raising congregation
RED WING, Minn. — Hundreds of bikers revved their way up and down the Mississippi River on both sides in the ritual spring Flood Run. It was a three-day event. also with a branch route up the St. Croix. The Run dates to 1965 when bikers from the Twin Cities arrived in convoy after convoy to help rescue Winona from a devastating flood. They’ ve been making the circuit ever since with lots of convivial mass stops at taverns along the way. In recent years the event has become a fund-raiser for Gillette Children’s Hospital in St. Paul. Ten-dollar wristbands have generated $350,000 the past seven years. The event’s chief 2025 sponsor, the Harbor Bar, conducted a finale drawing for – you guessed it – a motorcycle.
End points: Twin Cities and bridges at Winona and Hudson.