Doggin' ' Minneapolis: where you hiking with your dog in the mini Apple

Loring Park 1382 Willow Street is named after Charles Loring, the "father of the"
"Minneapolis Park System." Rented bring Loring Frederick Law Olmsted, a world-
Park class system to rapidly growing Minneapolis in 1883 and the first 30 hectares
This park were purchased. A number of bicycle and hiking paths wind around a Lake
and gardens; the Whitney bridge is the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden.

Try Fort Snelling State Park for a longer hike with your dog, 10 minutes
in the southeast of Minneapolis.

This gave the Dakota Indians on the ground at the mouth of the Minnesota and
Mississippi River the Centre of the world; European visitors recognized strategic
Importance for trade and defence. On the 21 September 1805, Zebulon Pike took
100,000 Acres for $200 trinkets, a cask whisky and the promise of a trade
Provide.

Colonel Josiah Snelling formed the post into a military fortress, when he arrived, 1820
and so it becomes as such World War II. Fort Snelling was spared.
Destruction, when it was named as the first national historic landmark in Minnesota
in 1960 and now the State usually attended opened two years later to
save space in the heart of the twin cities.

Fort Snelling State Park is packed with canine hiking possibilities - 18 miles of the foot
Route 18 km of tracks and 8 km from the city routes. It is a day use
Park only - no camping - i. e. You need to do anything back.

This is easy to hike shady in tire forests. A good place to start is 3.2
Mile only hiking way, Pike Iceland, website of the Treaty parties, the
Founding of the first European settlement in Minnesota.

5.8 Km long gravel Medota trail offers seclusion along the Minnesota River and
combines wildlife with the Minnesota Valley National. The refuge protects more
as 10,000 hectares often marshy areas with 34 miles of hiking trails. Dogs are
While the dog-friendly refuge allows.

Find Fort Snelling State Park, take highway 55 South highway 5 and the
Post Road exit and follow the signs.

Copyright 2006

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