state park itineraries
First state park lists, by way of visiting melissa:
Lake Carlos
Glendalough
Maplewood
Buffalo River
(visit Melissa)
Big Stone Lake
Lac Quii Parle
Glacial Lakes
Monson Lake
Sibley
home
second list, on the way to visit liz:
Wild River
Interstate
William OBrien
Afton
Frontenac
John A Latsch
(carley
whitewater) (not in map!)
Great River Bluffs
home from liz:
beaver creek
mystery cave
lake louise
myre-big island
rice lake
skatah lake
nerstrand big woods
fort snelling
upper sioux agency
camden
lake shetek
split rock creek
blue mounds
kilen woods
minneaopa
flandrau
forth ridgely
up the north shore:
mille lacs kathio
father hennepin
st. croix
banning
moose lake
jay cooke
gooseberry
split rock
tettegouche
george crosyb
temperance river
cascade river
judge magney
grand portage
bear head
lake vermilion
mccarthy beach
hill annex mine
then to finish up that north shore trip:
hill annex
savanna portage
cuyuna country
crow wing
lindbergh
here’s the long haul trip:
schoolcraft
scenic
franz jevne
zippel bay
hayes lake
lake bronson
old mill
lake bemidji
itasca
then on any day whenever, i’ll drive 30 mins south of here to hit up lake maria.
that’s 66 state parks. i didn’t include the state recreation areas, but i have a tweet in to them to see if those need to be included to be a passport completer (i have a feeling you do need to visit them). i did include one recreation area because i want to see if it’s good training ground for ragnar: cayuna country up by brainerd.
i’ll need to camp during a couple of these! probably all of them except for the ones where i’m visiting people at the same time. depending on the time of year, i might have to plan ahead on some of these. the north shore state parks probably fill up quickly during the summer months.
but seriously, this is 5 trips, 2 of which revolve around visiting people, so only three trips to hit all the state parks? i can deal with that! and if the first one is too much, then i’ll split them up. but even if i take off a friday or monday and spend two nights camping, that works for me. i think i’ll have to find a less complicated tent to sleep in.
plans for all these? i don’t have to spend a lot of time at them, but i do want to get a photo of the entrance sign and need to get a stamp at the office. i’ll probably spend a little time at some of them and not a ton of time at others. all depends on the park!