This park is on the smaller side, but a nice stop along the path that runs parallel to Cliff Road…read more There is also the option to park your car here, as there is a decent sized parking lot. You will find trash/recycling and a dog poop station there as well. On one side of the park is a place for sports, with a baseball diamond and a half court basketball. On the other side is a playground featuring many fun pieces of equipment, including slides, swings, climbing wall, balance steps, a spinner, and my favorite, a spinning orb you climb inside. Very dizzying lol! If you proceed further down the path to the south and cross over the residential road, the park does continue a little ways further to a neighborhood lake. This part of the path is unpaved dirt. No restrooms or water fountain available here, so come prepared!

Nice park that offers a walking/biking trail, lots of open space in the form of soccer/…read morelacrosse/baseball fields, playground, and a court. Parking lot is available off of Pinetree Curve. The "Horizon Bench" is artwork that you can find in this park. It is by artist Peter Zell and welcomingly sits along the walk/bike path. Come check out this park and try to find the art bench!

Loved our weekend trip to this park! When we arrived, the parking lot was very busy and there were…read morevery few spots left, even though it's a pretty sizeable lot for a park. We quickly learned this was because there was a special event going on (the Sankofa celebration) inside the center, with vendor tables and a couple of food trucks and even some crafting activities. So we got to experience that on top of the rest of the park's great amenities! The center is sleek and modern inside. LOTS of toilets (single occupant, all-gender), lots of coat hangars, multiple water bottle refill stations. The ground level has some cool reptile/amphibians behind glass you can ogle, as well as interactive informational displays (great for kids and adults, imo). Downstairs they have the rental booth for gear and educational rooms (they had a falcon demo in one while we were there!). Beside the center is an awesome multilevel playground, very fun. As well as a splash pad (for non-winter months) and an elevated boardwalk. The most nearby attraction is obviously the dam, which has an impressive spillway that's mesmerizing to watch. You can even walk across it to go over the river to the park on the other side. Apparently this spot is popular with fishers (though I don't have much knowledge on that subject). There are also trails that can be explored. Paved routes good for all recreational uses, as well as further out hiking paths that are just dirt. It'd be great to come back out again sometime and explore more. Across the street it seemed there was even archery!

I'm really happy this park has been updated to such a lovely and unique park. I love the the…read morenatural material and wood playground. The new visitor center is very nice and cute.

Extensive Ramsey County Park, full of wonderful outdoor opportunities! A true gem, if you're…read morelooking for something on the nature-side. It is a FREE park: free parking lots, boat launch, picnic tables, picnic shelters, playgrounds, a nice beach (that is closed now due to Covid-19 Virus..as well as the public bathrooms & changing building). Nice (but bumpy at times) asphalt trails for hiking and biking! Bring your picnic lunch and explore Tony Schmidt Regional Park!

Park is really nice. Parking was very close by. Bathroom was very close by also. Sign in the…read morebathroom said it's clean once daily. Playground are also close by. Their all close by each other that you can be in one spot to supervise kids at the beach and playground at the same time. Literally like 100 feet of each other. The sand and water are clean. It's a lake so it does shave the fishy smells.

Small, quiet park. Nice area with benches, sculptures, and pretty landscaping. Free parking all…read morearound. Nice views of Saint Paul.

In the 1880's this site used to be a hotel. It burned to the ground, but before it did, can you…read moreimagine the views? Not too hard to imagine, because you can walk to the ledge over Grand Hill and look down at the river, the bluffs, the bridges and trees and wonder if they look back. The park has been all kinds of tore up for some time as they installed a GIANT statue of an eagle killing a snake, some grand gesture of Americaness or some such that was salvaged from some razed building in St. Paul then moved to a parking garage and then moved to the park for us to enjoy. There will be seating wall, a "plaza" and a drinking fountain, and hopefully coming this spring....GRASS.

We went here on Memorial Day morning, mainly to look at the veteran memorial. It's a beautiful park…read morewith a lot to offer - we looked at the helicopter, the memorial, walked on the path around the park, then over to the playground. There was a lot of construction on the trail, so we were a little limited, but there was still plenty to keep us busy. The memorial + the helicopter were nice. Each is at a separate spot, about 30-40 feet from each other (I'm not awesome at guesstimating this distance, but it wasn't far). Each has a sidewalk going up to it, but the memorial has another walkway after the sidewalk stops - it's made of bricks with people's names on the brick. We think the names were the people who donated to the memorial, but it didn't say anywhere, so we aren't sure. The memorial is good sized with many names on it, and new names being added (you can tell by the stone bring more freshly cut). It's sobering to be there, but good to remember. The children were thoroughly into the helicopter - asking about all the parts and how it worked. After we accomplished what we had come for, we walked a bit, then ended at the playground. It is a good size with lots to keep a 4, 6, and 8 year old busy. Perhaps we will come here again, it looked like there were some interesting walking paths, but a bit was closed while we were there.

I'm on work travel for the month in the Shakopee area, so this is one of the first places I headed…read moreto get some info on fun things to do in the nearby area. I walked via the State Trail along the highway (which is apparently a 70 mile hike if you do the whole thing, loosely following the river!). The Visitor Center has many helpful pamphlets providing info on local activities, recreational parks, hiking trails, seasonal events, and more, including maps. The receptionist was really friendly and welcoming, and offered a couple suggestions of places to explore. There is a Veteran's Memorial and helicopter out front, plenty of picnic space with tables and lots of green grass, as well as a playground for kids to run around and enjoy. If you walk over the bridge in the back (north), you'll be reconnected with another trail. Further west there is a duck pond and a short educational trail with placards that have interesting historical info about the Shakopee area on them.

Great park. Nice and spacious fields and play area along with a stage and pavilion. Excellent…read morewalking trails that continue through shingle creek.

An unexpected beautiful hidden gem in Brooklyn Center! It's just off 694 and Shingle Creek…read moreParkway, hidden behind the Brooklyn Center Library and Community Center. There is an Amphitheater, multiple play structures, ball fields, walk/bike path, and scenic water features. Lots of community activities hosted here. In the summer time I've attended a concert at the Ampitheater, featuring an amazing band, The Power of Ten. The gym nearby, LA Fitness, sometimes hosts outdoor zumba classes here, too. It's clean and well taken care of. Plenty of walking paths that include outdoor gyms along the way. Great playground for the little ones. What I like most is that it's never to busy and it's so pretty. This is a great park to read a book at and to have picnics. There are picnic tables, barbecues, trash bins and porta-potties to host a nice picnic or a barbecue party.

Rice Creek Regional Trail Corridor is quite long-I think that this Yelp review pertains to the…read moreregional trail between the Lexington Avenue to almost the old Arsenal. There is a paved hiking/biking trail as well as a wetland Rice Creek flowing through it. This really is a lovely area. The Rice Creek Off-Leash Dog Area is on just off Lexington Avenue North. There's a canoe access area just before the main parking lot. The public bathrooms are closed for the season.

Wow, Rice Creek is a hidden gem. I'm specifically talking about the creek, we didn't use the…read morewalking trails or dog park. We kayaked down rice creek from County Rd J to Old Highway 8, which goes through Rice Creek Park. It was amazing! It's hard to realize you are ok the Twin Cities, as you are completely surrounded by nature. We saw cranes, deer, ducks, musk rats, flowers, reeds, calm flowing water, and all sorts of other nature. We did not see cars, houses, buildings, advertisements, or any of the other normal sensory bombardments of city life. The entire creek, or water trail as it's called, is pretty long and goes through several lakes. The portion we went down was about 4.5 glorious miles. The water is pretty shallow throughout and the only rough water is just right after you go under a couple of bridges. If you have access to any paddle powered water craft, go check it out now!

This park is located in the heart of downtown St. Paul and is pretty basic. It spans 4.2 acres and…read morewas developed in 1922. There is metered street parking, with a 2-hour limit, in front of the park and there is other metered parking and commercial garages with in a reasonable walking distance. This park is very scenic and has a lot of potential. It sits up high and overlooks the Mississippi River. The park has some decent green space pockets that could be used for picnic and possibly frisbee or playing a light game of catch. It has a bunch of trees that provide a decent amount of shade. There is also a nice paved walkway around the parks perimeter that can be used to walk/jog. You will find some benches along that walkway that had a bunch of homeless people sleeping on them and a few people from nearby offices eating their lunch. The park could be maintained a bit better but, it is not horrible. The park an arcing pergola and two operational fountains. They are the best part of the park and make for some very nice pictures. The park is riddled with a bunch of homeless, as I mentioned, they were on the benches and one was in the fountain. The park has hosted events such as Saint Paul Winter Carnival, Country Flannel Night, Food Truck Friday: Voices of the Community, Francis Ford Coppola Winery Happy Hour, Hops & Hounds, and UCare Sunday Music in the Park. Either way, this is a nice park to take a break from the hustle and bustle of the big city, whether to sit and hang out, eat lunch, walk along the river overlook or just chill by the fountains.

This is an ideal park for panoramas. You won't get a better view of Raspberry Island and the bustle…read moreof St. Paul can be momentarily forgotten while walking here.