About Us - Saint Paul Toboggan Club

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At the Saint Paul Toboggan Club, our mission is to promote connections through active social events during the winter months.

Instead of having all the different competing clubs as was customary in the late 1800's, we are looking to unite under one brand name for the whole city while showing pride for the neighborhood we each connect with and represent.

This is meant to be our family's way to promote the winter and create a lasting memory for our children.  

Founded in 1886, the Nushka marching club was a member of the Saint Paul Winter Carnival.  This club would embrace the winter outdoors with snowshoeing, tobogganing, and general revelry.  They were thrown out of the carnival due to rowdiness and subsequently founded the Town and Country Club.  

Town & Country Club was more of a social organization inspired by the clubs in Saint Paul that were formed as a nucleus of the annual Winter Carnival. A residence on Lake Como was the first clubhouse in 1887.  The Club moved to its present home at the Marshall Avenue Bridge on the Mississippi River in 1890. Today, this “country club” is in the heart of the Twin Cities metropolitan area, but in 1890, it was in the boondocks of Saint Paul.