You can actually paddle up the entire Red River to Winnipeg. We should facilitate sports tourism the way that the Appalachian Trail facilitates it (and frankly, the way that Iowa facilitates the RAGBRA bicycle tour).

Create places for people to stow equipment, camp, and walk into downtown to see Fargo. This might be a way to market Fargo as something more than a frozen wasteland. It would also give people a unique reason to come to Fargo. The physical exertion of getting here just makes it that much more special.