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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.
The state park, held by the surrounding Grand Portage Indian Reservation and leased to the state of Minnesota for $1 a year, is the only U.S. state park jointly managed by a state and a Native American band. [2] It is also the only Minnesota state park not owned by the state. [3]
Sakatah Lake State Park is an 842-acre (341 ha) state park of Minnesota, USA, on a natural widening of the Cannon River near the town of Waterville. The Dakota native to the area called it "Sakatah" which means "singing hills". To honor this native heritage, some of the trails in the park have been given Dakota names.
The park is in Breitung Township, on the shore of Lake Vermilion in northern Minnesota's Vermilion Range. It has become a popular tourist site, often visited on the way to and from Ely and the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. [citation needed] The state park is operated under the Department of Natural Resources.
Minnesota Department of Natural Resources William O'Brien State Park is a 1,520-acre (6.2 km 2 ) state park of Minnesota , USA, along the St. Croix River . Its hiking trails traverse rolling glacial moraine , riparian zones, restored oak savanna , wooded areas and bogs .
The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources has been interested in adding the Schech Mill to the park, but the family that has owned it since 1887 has preferred to operate the mill privately as a tourist attraction. [6] In the mid-1990s Beaver Creek Valley State Park was caught in a dispute between fishing and birdwatching interests. To ...
The Richard J. Dorer Memorial Hardwood State Forest is a 1,016,204 acres (4,112.43 km 2) reserve of current and former forest in Minnesota's Driftless Area. Only 45,000 acres (180 km 2 ) of the land is state owned, with the remainder owned by private individuals and community groups, governed by easements.
The park is home to mammalian species of deer, raccoon, coyote, opossum, red fox, woodchuck, beaver and various ground squirrels. On the Mississippi Flyway, the Frontenac area has been known for birdwatching since 1900. [2] 260 bird species have been sighted in Frontenac State Park. [3] Bald eagles and golden eagles are seen around the bluff.