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The Standing Cedars name is an English translation of the ancient name of this site in the Dakota language ("Ḣaƞte Nażiƞ"). Dakota oral history recounts that this site marked the boundary between Dakota and Ojibwe territories.

Open to the public; a project of the Landmark Conservancy

Part of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Center for Limnology

The Upper Mississippi River National Wildlife and Fish Refuge is a 240,000-acre, 261-mile long National Wildlife Refuge located in and along the Upper Mississippi River. It runs from Wabasha, Minnesota in the north to Rock Island, Illinois in the south.