Sports bar, billiards & darts near Coon Rapids, MN

From the Coon Rapids Dam to the pool tables

Coon Rapids borders Fridley to the north, and the two cities meet at Springbrook Nature Center, a 127-acre preserve on the city line. Highway 47 is one of the three main highways through Coon Rapids, with U.S. Highway 10 and Highway 610, and it is the road Two Stooges is on in Fridley.

With 63,599 residents at the 2020 census, Coon Rapids is one of the bigger cities in Anoka County. Its name goes back to Coon Creek: when the Coon Rapids Dam was built, the township renamed itself Coon Creek Rapids, later shortened. The dam was finished in 1914 and is now part of a regional park on the Mississippi. Coon Rapids Boulevard follows the Red River Ox Cart Trail, laid out in 1835 between Minneapolis and Anoka. If your day includes Bunker Hills Regional Park or a class at Anoka-Ramsey Community College, pool, darts and dinner are one city south.

Cenaiko Lake and Crooked Lake are shared with Andover, the neighbor to the north; about two-thirds of the pair lies inside Coon Rapids. Mercy, part of the Allina Health system, was the largest employer in the city's 2014 report, and RMS Company, a medical device maker, has its headquarters in town.