Season Finale: Wild River State Park

After a few domestic chores, making up the queen-sized bed and doing other trip preparations, our intrepid neighbors, Tom and Sandy, departed Shakopee this afternoon to spend a few days in their camp trailer at the Wild River State Park on the St. Croix in Minnesota, about 100 miles from home. It's their final outing of the year, the "Element" goes into winter storage after this one.
Fall conditions should be ideal at this popular venue, with plenty of color and sun.
The park web site boasts:
Wild River State Park offers a great variety of natural habitats in a peaceful, serene setting. Visitors have an opportunity to experience the flavor of northern Minnesota’s conifer forests, southern Minnesota’s hardwood forests, and western Minnesota’s tallgrass prairie. Encounters with wildlife and wildflowers common to all of these habitats make the park a place worth returning to over and over. Sixteen miles of shoreline on the St. Croix River provide sightseeing, fishing, and canoeing on a river recognized as the cleanest of its size in the eastern United States.

Wild River offers visitors more solitude than many state parks. Thirty-five miles of trail allow visitors to spread out. Sometimes you feel as if you have the whole park to yourself. Campsites are spacious and screened from neighboring campers. Walk-in and canoe camping sites in more remote parts of the park provide an even greater sense of seclusion.

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