The Downtown Crookston Development Partnership (DCDP), Polk County Wellness Coalition, and Statewide Health Initiative Partnership have teamed up to announced the launch of downtown Crookston walking trail maps.
The kickoff event will be Thursday, June 17 at 8:30 a.m. at the Main Street Courtyard (by Montague’s Flower Shop). The kickoff event will include a walk of a short trail in downtown Crookston that should last about 20 minutes and they will discuss ideas to promote downtown Crookston.
“We are having an inaugural walk. We are introducing maps for walking downtown that are approximately 15 to 45 minutes in length. One is the Queen City stroll, one is the Historic Hike, and one is the Riverside Rest. They all start on North Main Street at the corner of Main Street and Robert Street where there is a drinking fountain so you can fill your water bottle,” said DCDP’s Shirley Iverson.
The map is available below, or as a QR code on a sign in downtown Crookston. “I am going to say QR codes were a success of the pandemic. Many of us didn’t know how to use it and now we can pull up any menu we want with it and that is exactly what we are following,” said Iverson.
Iverson added that downtown Crookston has a lot of things to highlight and they are looking at putting a walk together that highlights the 13 ghost signs (old advertisements/signs painted on the side of buildings).
