Located in southeast Minneapolis,  Longfellow  is a defined community with five smaller neighborhoods. The area is named after Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, a renowned American poet, recognized for his poem, Song of Hiawatha. The poem brought worldwide fame to Minnehaha Falls, which is a popular attraction in the neighboring  Nokomis community . Longfellow offers an abundance of beautiful natural scenery with its many parks, and miles of biking and walking paths. The Hiawatha neighborhood is bordered to the south by Minnehaha Park, and sits along the west shoreline of the Mississippi River, along with the Cooper and Howe neighborhoods. Residents of the Longfellow community also enjoy 5.7 miles of walking and bike paths on the Midtown Greenway which runs through the Longfellow and Seward neighborhoods.