Tower Hill Park

2000 | BEST VIEW

First things first: Forget climbing the IDS--we're thinking rustic. So bring along the picnic basket, be sure to invite your significant other, and head up to Tower Hill, nestled above southeast Minneapolis's professorial Prospect Park neighborhood. A spectacular vista awaits those who climb the steps to the top of the 371-foot-tall Witches' Tower, but it's open only one day of the year (for the neighborhood ice-cream social in late May), which makes it ineligible for a prize it would... More »