A park for all reasons

If you live around here you know that Barnes Park has a great beach and beautiful campsites.  But did you know it has a network of trails that wind through the woods, past a prairie restoration, around a wetland, and through stands of oak, aspen, red pine, white pine and jack pine?  Did you know that there are chipped trails and a wide, paved, bike and roll and stroll trail?  Well there is all that, and I think you should go on over there and enjoy it.  Say hello to Eileen and Teddy for me.  (Click on the snapshots to see bigger versions.)  

You can learn a lot more about the park at its own website.  (There’s a link over on the right under “Parks and Trails.”)  There’s a great collection of photos there.  What you won’t find is the trail map, so I scanned it and put it on its own Barnes Park Trail Map Page.  Eileen said that wasn’t good enough and sent me a nice fresh PDF that didn’t have any folds in it. That is posted here: Barnes Park Trail Map 2008 PDF. If you go to the headquarters cabin, Eileen will give you one.