Tours of Saint Anthony Falls Laboratory
PLEASE NOTE: SAFL IS PRESENTLY UNDERGOING CONSTRUCTION AND TOUR ACCESS IS EXTREMELY LIMITED.
Parking will be limited to the spaces outside of the laboratory's main gate. Please park only in the marked parking stalls on the blacktop. If no parking is available in the lab's lot, the closest parking lot is on the corner of 3rd Avenue SE and 2nd Street SE, one block up from SAFL. The lot charges $2 per day.
The staff and students of St. Anthony Falls Laboratory are pleased to offer free tours of our educational and applied research facility. Please help us provide the most beneficial experience for you and your group by keeping the following points in mind:
- A tour will include a brief history of the building and its physical setting and an introduction to some of our ever-changing engineering models, such as dams, river banks, bridges, and flume experiments in which we study how the processes of erosion, transport, and deposition shape the Earth's surface.
For general information about the broader impacts of the research conducted at SAFL, please refer to our booklet Improving the world, one drop at a time.
To help college classes get the most out of this field trip, we have designed worksheets and teacher's guides for undergraduate students.
SAFL field trip for undergraduates
Undergraduate Instructor's guide
- The maximum practical group size per tour guide is 13 people. The minimum is 3 persons, depending on the purpose of the tour. We can accomodate larger groups by splitting them into smaller groups. The maximum total number in a group arriving together should not exceed 50 persons. Our minimum age requirement is the equivalent of college freshman.
(Due to space limitations and risk factors, SAFL does not provide tours for elementary, middle, and high school groups.)
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