Mississippi, St. Paul - Treasure Island

[CROSE]

I was planning a trip from St. Paul to TI. I'm hoping I can get some opinions/experience's doing this. I have a 200BR. Is this to small of a boat for that stretch of the river? Does anyone know what the Treasure Island marina is like and what they charge for an overnight?

 

[kevinmc]

TI is great., $25 for the night and they have wifi and access to pool at hotel. I was there on July 4th, current was very strong in the marina.

 

[CROSE]

Thanks for the info Kevin. I'm going to get a room at the hotel. My concern was mostly for the river traffic. I traveled from Red Wing to Hudson a few times in my 18' Larson and it got a bit scary at times with the larger boats but I decided to take a couple days off work and do this during the week. I'll be trading up in a couple years and I really like the mid 80's 268's :smt001, I think that's about the biggest my truck can tow.

 

[Stray Cat]

One nice thing about river travel during the week, the larger pleasure boat traffic is less frequent and often the channel is smooth as glass.

 

[Slippery When Wet]

The mighty Miss is far less choppy then the St Croix. But it's dirty as hell so hopefully you don't have to get in it to pee. :grin:

 

[66pony]

It's a nice trip, easy going, Just make sure you stay at least 10 feet inside of buoy as there is a lot of debris and the buoy seem to hook a lot. I saw a B*****er take out a drive last w/e going too close to a buoy in an attempt to pass me.