Fort Snelling (Metro Transit Station)
Fort Snelling is a light rail station on the Hiawatha Line on Fort Snelling in the Twin Cities region of Minnesota. It is the thirteenth stop southbound.
This station is located on Minnehaha Avenue, adjacent to the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building and diagonally across from the Army Reserve campus and the main entrance to the Air National Guard station. This is a center-platform station. Service began at this station when the Hiawatha Line opened on June 26, 2004. At that time, this was the southern terminus of the Hiawatha Line. The remainder of the line, south of this station, opened on December 4, 2004.
This station is the site of a large park and ride facility. There are now two parking lots, making a total of about 975 spaces available to commuters.
Just north of this station the Hiawatha Line crosses the interchange of Minnesota State Highway 55 and Minnesota State Highway 62 on a flyover. Just south of this station, the line has a third track in the center which was used primarily for the LRVs to switch tracks when this station acted as the terminus of the line.
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