This quest involves visiting the components of the Minnesota State Parks system.

Quest Objectives

What Qualifies (?)

The primary quest includes visiting each of the state parks and state recreation areas.

Additionally, some questers also include the state waysides and state trails that are also part of the Minnesota state parks system.

List of Objectives

State Parks and Recreation Areas

• Afton State Park
• Kilen Woods State Park
• Banning State Park
• La Salle Lake State Recreation Area
• Bear Head Lake State Park
• Lac qui Parle State Park
• Beaver Creek Valley State Park
• Lake Bemidji State Park
• Big Bog State Recreation Area
• Lake Bronson State Park
• Big Stone Lake State Park
• Lake Carlos State Park
• Blue Mounds State Park
• Lake Louise State Park
• Buffalo River State Park
• Lake Maria State Park
• Camden State Park
• Lake Shetek State Park
• Carley State Park
• Lake Vermilion-Soudan Underground Mine State Park
• Cascade River State Park
• Maplewood State Park
• Charles A. Lindbergh State Park
• McCarthy Beach State Park
• Crow Wing State Park
• Mille Lacs Kathio State Park
• Cuyuna Country State Recreation Area
• Minneopa State Park
• Father Hennepin State Park
• Minnesota Valley State Recreation Area
• Flandrau State Park
• Monson Lake State Park
• Forestville/Mystery Cave State Park
• Moose Lake State Park
• Fort Ridgely State Park
• Myre - Big Island State Park
• Fort Snelling State Park
• Nerstrand Big Woods State Park
• Franz Jevne State Park
• Old Mill State Park
• Frontenac State Park
• Red River State Recreation Area
• Garden Island State Recreation Area
• Rice Lake State Park
• George H. Crosby Manitou State Park
• St. Croix State Park
• Glacial Lakes State Park
• Sakatah Lake State Park
• Glendalough State Park
• Savanna Portage State Park
• Gooseberry Falls State Park
• Scenic State Park
• Grand Portage State Park
• Schoolcraft State Park
• Great River Bluffs State Park
• Sibley State Park
• Greenleaf Lake State Recreation Area
• Split Rock Creek State Park
• Hayes Lake State Park
• Split Rock Lighthouse State Park
• Hill Annex Mine State Park
• Temperance River State Park
• Interstate State Park
• Tettegouche State Park
• Iron Range OHV State Recreation Area
• Upper Sioux Agency State Park
• Itasca State Park
• Whitewater State Park
• Jay Cooke State Park
• Wild River State Park
• John A. Latsch State Park
• William O'Brien State Park
• Judge C.R. Magney State Park
• Zippel Bay State Park

State trails and waysides

• Arrowhead State Trail
• Blazing Star State Trail
• Blufflands State Trail: Harmony-Preston Valley Segment
• Blufflands State Trail: Root River Segment
• Caribou Falls State Wayside
• Casey Jones State Trail
• Central Lakes State Trail
• Cuyuna Lakes State Trail
• Devils Track Falls State Wayside
• Douglas State Trail
• Flood Bay State Wayside
• Gateway State Trail
• Gitchi-Gami State Trail
• Glacial Lakes State Trail
• Goodhue Pioneer State Trail
• Great River Ridge State Trail
• Heartland State Trail
• Inspiration Peak State Wayside
• Joseph R. Brown State Wayside
• Kadunce River State Wayside
• Luce Line State Trail
• Mill Towns State Trail
• Minnesota Valley State Trail
• North Shore State Trail
• Paul Bunyan State Trail
• Ray Berglund State Wayside
• Sakatah Singing Hills State Trail
• Sam Brown Memorial State Wayside
• Shooting Star State Trail
• St. Croix Boom Site State Wayside
• Taconite State Trail
• Willard Munger State Trail

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Quest Finishers

Fellow Questers

• Susan from This Big Wide World

Related Quests

Tips and Resources

• MN State Parks offers a parks and trails passport club. Keep in mind that some passport stamps are located in other park units.
• This Big Wide World has some tips for participating in the program.
• Here are some useful maps and a parkfinder feature.

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