Update 6/9/2017 – Looks like it’s all ready to go. Bring water, sunscream and #hashtug can be used on Facebook, Twitter and more on the event itself. It’s looking slick.

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Update 6/8/2017 – Minneapolis donations is still ahead by a couple thousand. I live in Minneapolis but have a soft spot for St. Paul. Personally, I may make a game-day decision but haven’t decided yet which city I’m pulling for.

They do stress that the best place to watch the event is indeed on the St. Paul side at Hidden Park. This is where the music, food trucks and kids events are taking place as well as how to get your free Metro Transit pass to it (the 46 route may work the best). All of the above info can be found on their events page. Just give it some time to load, folks. It takes a bit, but it will come up.

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Update 6/7/17 – WCCO continues to update the Fraser event site with information good for the user. Note: Minneapolis has surpassed St. Paul in donations. There’s still plenty of time to catch up, St. Paul. They showed the location on the morning news as well. Such a serene place on both sides of the river. Right in the middle of an urban area.

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The answer seems simple enough. You just go to WCCO’s subdomain CBS site and navigate it until you find directions, address or anything else that helps you navigate physically to the Fraser Benefit.

Only problem is good luck with that (sorry, still love ya’ WCCO). It’s not a WCCO issue as much as news sites in general that are so slow to load partially due to 3rd party ads that users simply give up. Well, here’s some information of how to physically get to the Fraser Event, as well as a few other tasty tidbits such as place to eat near there afterwards.

Here’s a customized map for you to view, use, add places and even share.

In my experience, the 46th St Transit Station is the easiest starting point as you can bike, walk, bus or light rail or park-n-ride it there. Then, take the 46 Bus east to the old Ford plant parking lot. Either way, then just count your steps with a Fitbit. It’s less than a half mile walk (or free shuttle) to the Hidden Park Fraser Event from there.

Tip: The good folks at Metro Transit are offering a free event ride. If you do this on mobile, you can take a screenshot of your ticket instead of printing one, therefore saving a bit of a tree to a place you’re going to that’s full of trees.

You can even bring your dog and watch from the Minneapolis side at the Minnehaha Off Leash Dog Park. From experience, parking should be even easier there as long as you don’t mind watching the main Fraser Events across a narrow part of the river.

You can donate to either the St. Paul or Minneapolis team the day of race and it may even be part of a decision due to a potential tie. This is a biggie for me. It makes everyone’s voice count.

While you’re in the neighborhood, consider taking in a meal (although there will be plenty of food trucks at the Fraser Event). The Highland Park area in itself has plenty of quality choices. One is the Highland Grill. Their side fruit cup is that incredibly-average dumpster-melon made delicious by adding homemade mint to it.

Burger and Fresh Mint from Highland Grill

Protip: The Highland Grill is part of the Blue Plate Restaurant Company. David Burley is their CEO. On the back of every receipt, David proudly puts his cell phone number on it for feedback.

Think of this as Yelp before there was a Yelp, or at least before your current perception of What Yelp is today. They read your feedback and will often engage with you because of it. But, I digress.

That’s about it for now. Enjoy the tug-of-war, food, beverage, bands (Heiruspecs will perform at noon). Hope to see you there!

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