Hennepin County, Minnesota

Hennepin County is the most populous county in Minnesota and is bordered by the Mississippi River on the east and north and the Minnesota River on the south. The Hotel Minneapolis sits in the heart of the city and is conveniently located near the Hennepin County Government Center and the Hennepin County Library.

Hennepin Avenue in Minneapolis

Check-in to The Hotel Minneapolis and check-out the famous Hennepin Avenue. Running north through the Uptown District of Southwest Minneapolis, through the former "Bottleneck" area west of Loring Park, through the Warehouse District in the city center, to Northeast Minneapolis and through the city's eastern boundary, Hennepin Avenue serves as a major entertainment thoroughfare, dubbed the Hennepin Theatre District.  Many important institutions and structures have been built on Hennepin, including Calhoun Square, the Suburban World Theater, the Uptown Theater, the Walker Art Center, the Basilica of St. Mary, Minneapolis Community and Technical College, the Hennepin Center for the Arts, and the Lumber Exchange Building. The street has achieved iconic status in Minneapolis culture, featuring prominently in the Prince movie Purple Rain and memorialized in songs by Tom Waits and Lucinda Williams, among others. It is also a popular parade route, used by the annual Aquatennial celebration held in July, and since the 1990s has been the traditional route of the city's GLBT Pride parade.