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The park has been plagued with recent challenges, including aging buildings and road washouts caused by repeated flooding of the Yellow Medicine River. It would have required a significant investment in infrastructure to keep operating it as a recreational site, Strommen said, making the decision to support a land transfer “a pretty easy choice.”
(Granite Falls MN-) The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources Wednesday announced they will be closing Upper Sioux Agency State Park near Granite Falls February 16th. DNR Commissioner Sarah Strommen says
The Minnesota DNR will permanently close the gates to Upper Sioux Agency State Park near Granite Falls and return the land to the Indigenous community.
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The Department of Natural Resources will transfer the park to the Upper Sioux Community in mid-March, leadership in the agency announced on Wednesday.