Minneapolis Skyway

Downtown Minneapolis Skyway is an excellent way to get around the city area businesses, hospitality, shopping, sports arenas, entertainment and banking. This walkway has it all! It’s a great alternative to walking in the streets in extreme hot and cold weather. Very clean and temperature set just right anytime of the year. The map (see attached) will lead you to wherever you want to go. Connects and links you with hotels, buses and trains too! Great for walkers as you can put some serious steps in if you do the whole thing. Portions could be closed after hours or on weekends. You’ll need to check the website to see what sections are open and timings.

Appreciate the Minneapolis Skyways. Great idea to connect buildings together allowing people to walk when it’s bitter cold or on a hot summer day. It’s always fun to watch the buses pass through. Been lost in the skyways many times but always found my way out. Five stars for keep it clean and continuing to make available for everyone.

The skyways are wonderful way of travel in the city, but what is the point if they close the skyway at 6 PM Monday through Friday and it is not even open on weekends. the skyway should be open Monday through Sunday till 10 PM, if not later open the skyways and stop making excuses that the skyways are closed because of vandals if that’s the case, then let each building security be responsible for monitoring the skyways. I would make more use of the city, especially in the evenings if I could go through the skyway system, but I’m not about to walk the streets in the middle of the night, you folk seem to be more concerned about vandalism in the skyways than the safety of Minneapolis citizens walking the streets, open the skyways and stop with the excuses

I'm surprised Nicollet Mall has a higher Google rating than the Skyway. Nicollet Mall has very little if any redeeming qualities. Not a 5 star rating as there are some issues with the Skyway, but the Skyway is great overall and unique. There's not another American city that has something as expansive as Minneapolis's Skyway and other cities have tried to copy/mimick the Mpls Skyway. Some of the main complaints I've seen in these reviews: Hours. Well, the Skyways are owned by the individual buildings they go thru, there's not one individual owner. So those building owners need to decide whether it's worth it to hire security and other personnel to be on staff during down hours and days. They've decided there's not enough foot traffic to justify the expense. And I can't blame them. The Skyways main clientele is the downtown officer worker, even now in 2025 that is still the case. And public restrooms: Well, there used to be public restrooms, but certain people ruined it for the rest of us. Lots of drug use and other nefarious activities. Then, when people starting dying of overdoses in the public restrooms in the SkyWay that was the last straw. Not worth the liability for the building owners. And I can't blame them. So, blame the junkies for lack of public restrooms in the Skyway.

Tried to use it to get closer to our hotel 4 blocks away during a surprise thunderstorm at 5pm but due to the lack of maps and notices of closures we twice wound up having to retrace our steps back to where we entered and back out into the rain. Seems like it is planned for locals who know from experience where they are and whether it is useful to get where they want to go. Can't imagine why they don't have more maps to help tourists navigate.

Must be walked to be believed. Some of the best views, eats, and drinks in the city in climate controlled comfort.

Not open on the weekends. Closes at 6pm. One public restroom in Target lower level, with one toilet that has to be opened by an employee. If they brag about this being a tourist attraction, they should do something about that. Waste of time!

Hours posted online are wrong and places are inconsistent or inaccessible. Exists for the suburbanites, people working in the skyway blindly turn corners expecting you to see them, the business people take up so much space walk 2-3 people wide and don’t single file thru the doors when there’s cross traffic. The hours are not meant for people who live in the city. Minneapolis as a whole is hostile to its residents and only exists for the people who drive into the city and leave after work. Everything in the city shuts down early leaving the residents SOL if they need groceries, want to walk around, etc