MINNEAPOLIS — The landmark Minnehaha Falls in southeast Minneapolis has dried up – victim of drought. The city has cut off water from a dam 22 miles upstream to prevent Lake Minnetonka from running entirely dry itself. The upside: Visitors get a better view of natural rock formations behind the fall’s 53-foot escarpment. The falls attracts 885,000 visitors a year.

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Park attraction since 1849. A wilderness waterfall, unusual  in an urban setting. At 170-acre Minnehaha Park. Inspiration for Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s epic 1855 poem “The Song of Hiawatha.”