| has gloss | eng: The Kinnickinnic River, called the Kinni for short, is a 25-mile-long river in northwestern Wisconsin in the United States. It is listed as a Class I trout stream. The Kinnickinnic River arises from springs in St. Croix County and flows in a southwesterly direction before emptying into the St. Croix River in Kinnickinnic State Park. The city of River Falls, Wisconsin, named after a waterfall on the Kinnickinnic, is situated on the river. The name "Kinnickinnic" is a word from the Anishinaabe language, and refers to tobacco mixed with other plant material for smoking. The first settler along the Kinnickinnick River was Joel Foster. He spent his first winter in a walled-in cave overhang at junction falls near where the power plant now stands. |
