Your Guide to Buying a Home in Columbia Heights, MN

Buying a Home in Columbia Heights, Minnesota

Columbia Heights is located in Anoka County

The small, friendly city at the top of the St. Paul/Minneapolis, Minnesota metro area," is adjacent to Minneapolis. Its location affords residents and businesses easy access to the Twin Cities via the nearby freeway system and two major highways as well as all the benefits of a well-established first-ring suburb.

A first-ring northern suburb of Minneapolis, it is home to the Heights Theater, a plethora of fast food eateries, and Twin City Comics.  A Polish flag and white eagle are on the sign marking the border between Columbia Heights and Minneapolis, visible when entering Columbia Heights on Central Avenue, in celebration of the suburb's early roots as a Polish-American community.

Columbia Heights is bordered by the city of Fridley to the north and west; New Brighton and Saint Anthony to the east; and Minneapolis to the south.

The city of Hilltop is entirely enclosed within the city.

Columbia Heights has a hilly terrain and features the highest point in Hennepin, Ramsey, and Anoka Counties at 47th Avenue NE & Stinson Blvd. There are five lakes in the city: Sullivan Lake, Highland Lake, Silver Lake, Hart Lake, and LaBelle Pond.

The city park system resides in mostly low lying and former swampland areas that was unsuitable for building. Huset Park is the main park in the city. Prestemon, Gauvitte and McKenna Parks were all named for members of the first city council in 1921. Ava Ostrander, first woman elected to the council in 1924 also has a park named for her. Kordiak Park is an Anoka County park in the city named after former County Commissioner Albert A. Kordiak. Other parks include Edgemoor, La Belle, Lomianki, Keyes, Sullivan, Ramsdell, and Hilltop.

Source: wikipedia.org