WHERE DO WE GO?

The Mississippi River is about 2,400 miles long from the headwaters to the Gulf of Mexico and runs through and/or borders ten states. It starts wholly within Minnesota (about 1/4 of the length of the river is in Minnesota, approximately 640 miles). It ends wholly within the state of Louisiana, many miles (almost 100) past New Orleans, at the tip of a long channel that extends into the delta at Louisiana’s toe. Between MN and LA, it flows past: Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois, Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, and Mississippi.

There’s a terrific map on the Wikipedia page.