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Afton State Park is a state park of Minnesota, USA, on the St. Croix River in Washington County. Its hiking trails offer views of the river, rolling glacial moraine , and bluffland it preserves. It is a popular place for birdwatching , picnics , camping , and other typical outdoor recreational activities.
There are 64 state parks, nine state recreation areas, nine state waysides, and 23 state trails in the Minnesota state park system, totaling approximately 267,000 acres (1,080 km 2). [ 1 ] [ 2 ] A Minnesota state park is an area of land in the U.S. state of Minnesota preserved by the state for its natural, historic, or other resources.
Afton (/ ˈ æ f t ə n / AF-tən) [4] is a city in Washington County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 2,886 at the 2010 United States Census . [ 5 ] It lies on a small bay where Valley Creek empties into the St. Croix River , several miles north of its confluence with the Mississippi River .
Jean-Baptiste-Louis Franquelin's 1688 map recorded a "Fort St. Croix" on the upper reaches of the river. [ 13 ] [ 14 ] The name "Rivière de Sainte-Croix" was applied to the river sometime in 1688 or 1689, [ 12 ] : 28 and this more auspicious name supplanted Father Hennepin's earlier designation.
The park was expanded into the bluffs west of Highway 95 and a second campground added. A large tract was added in 1973, leapfrogging a rail line, and another 120 acres (0.49 km 2) came in 1986. William O'Brien remains one of the top five most-visited state parks in Minnesota.
Washington County is a county in the U.S. state of Minnesota.As of the 2020 census, the population was 267,568, [2] making it the fifth-most populous county in Minnesota. Its county seat is Stillwater. [3]
The scenic Skyline Drive, which runs through the Shenandoah National Park north to Front Royal, and south to the Blue Ridge Parkway, which continues on to a point near Cherokee, North Carolina, each generally following the mountain ridgetops; the two highways meet a short distance north of Rockfish Gap (such that the roadway on the bridge over ...
Sibley State Park is a Minnesota state park near New London, on the shores of Andrew Lake. It is named for Henry Hastings Sibley, the first governor of the state. A city park in Mankato, Minnesota is also named for Sibley. [2] The rustic style stone structures in the park were constructed by the Civilian Conservation Corps between 1935