This week in River Falls
Nothing on River Falls’s calendar for the next two weeks yet.
About River Falls
River Falls takes its name from the rapids of the Kinnickinnic River, a cold, clear trout stream that still runs right through downtown. Joel Foster settled here in 1848, and in 1854 the brothers Nathaniel and Oliver Powell started a village they first called Kinnickinnic. A state school for training teachers opened in 1874 and grew into the University of Wisconsin-River Falls, and River Falls became a city in 1885. Today people fly-fish and paddle the 'Kinni,' cross the swinging bridge in Glen Park above the South Fork rapids, and pack Main Street each July for River Falls Days.