{"id":31438,"count":1,"description":"Lake Itasca is a small glacial lake, approximately 1.8 square miles (4.7\u00a0km) in area, in the Headwaters area of north central Minnesota. The lake is located in southeastern Clearwater County within Itasca State Park and it has an average depth of 20\u201335\u00a0feet (6\u201311 m), and is 1,475\u00a0ft (450 m) above sea level.\nThe Ojibwe name for \"Lake Itasca\" was Omashkoozo-zaaga'igan (Elk Lake); this was changed by Henry Schoolcraft to \"Itasca\", coined from a combination of the Latin words veritas (\"truth\") and caput (\"head\"). It is one of several examples of pseudo-Indian place names created by Schoolcraft.\nIt is the source of the Mississippi River which flows 2,340\u00a0mi (3,770\u00a0km) to the Gulf of Mexico; however, the exact point cannot be located, because there are many small tributaries and marshy areas that drain into the Mississippi watershed. Henry Schoolcraft identified Lake Itasca as the river's source in 1832. He had been part of a previous expedition in 1820 led by General Lewis Cass that had...","link":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/tag\/lake-itasca\/","name":"Lake Itasca","slug":"lake-itasca","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/31438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/post_tag"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?tags=31438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}