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Wild River State Park: Minnesota DNR
Hiking Club Miles: 3.3
Miles Earned On: 10/16/10
Critter Card Found On: 11/09/10
Geocaching notes: Nice hike. Easy find. We also found the Nevers Dam cache.
Bird Card Found On: 05/17/13
Hiking notes: In addition to the Hiking Club Trail, we also hiked part of Dry Creek Trail, Pioneer Trail, and an unnamed trail southwest of Pioneer Trail that takes you to the Breezy Valley and Aspen Knob campgrounds.
Park comments: The trails were a mix of hiking, hiking/biking (paved), hiking/skiing, and hiking/horseback. This park has its own geocaching challenge that's we'd like to go back and complete in the future.
Park entrance On the way to visitor center Visitor center Start of Hiking Club Trail
Map Mitigwaki Loop Mitigwaki Loop Bluebird Trail
Bluebird Trail Bluebird Trail Bluebird Trail Bluebird Trail
Turning onto River Trail River Trail River Trail River Trail
River Trail River Trail River Trail River Trail
River Trail River Trail River Trail River Trail
River Trail River Trail River Trail River Trail
River Trail River Trail River Trail Found password
View from Old Nevers Dam site View from Old Nevers Dam site Nevers Dam Trail Map
Nevers Dam Trail Nevers Dam Trail Trail up to Old Logging Trail Old Logging Trail
Old Logging Trail Old Logging Trail Old Logging Trail Old Logging Trail
Old Logging Trail Old Logging Trail Old Logging Trail Old Logging Trail
Trail to Mitigwaki Loop
Old Logging Trail Old Logging Trail Mitigwaki Loop Mitigwaki Loop
Mitigwaki Loop Mitigwaki Loop Map Trail to the Bridge
Crossing the bridge
to Dry Creek Trail 		Crossing the bridge
to Dry Creek Trail 		Crossing the bridge
to Dry Creek Trail 		Dry Creek Trail
Dry Creek Trail Dry Creek Trail Dry Creek Trail Map
Pioneeer Trail Pioneeer Trail Pioneeer Trail
Squirrel 		Pioneeer Trail
Pioneeer Trail Pioneeer Trail Pioneeer Trail Pioneeer Trail
Map
We're heading straight on unnamed trail 		Trail Trail Trail
A creek in the trail
Chris-Is this the bleeping DNR’s idea of a joke? 		Creek We made it across!
Thanks to some rocks and a branch 		Map
You can see the creek we crossed. How can the DNR not know about it?
Hard trail ahead First hill And it continues And now down we go
And up again And down And up Another hill up ahead
At least it's a small one
And up some more Found a lookout
Bench 		View from lookout View from lookout
And down Aspen Knob
Reached turn off for campsite 		Trail Trail
Trail Map Trail Trail
Trail Trail Trail Weather station
Located behind park office
Weather station Trail Trail Trail
Map
We are about to turn the wrong way on Pioneer Trail 		Pioneer Trail
Wrong way 		Pioneer Trail
Wrong way 		Map
Discovering we turned the wrong way and have to backtrack .2 miles
Pioneer Trail
Going the right way now 		Pioneer Trail Map Mitigwaki Loop
Mitigwaki Loop Mitigwaki Loop Mitigwaki Loop Mitigwaki Loop
Turning onto Windfall Trail Windfall Trail Tree Finder Tree Finder
Tree Finder
What kind of tree is that? 		Tree Finder
Oh, it is an American Elm 		Windfall Trail Windfall Trail
Windfall Trail Arriving back at visitor center GPS brought us here
This is not where to go for the Hiking Club Trail 		Wrong part of the park
If you see sign, this is not right entrance for this hike
Found critter card
front 		Found critter card
back 		Avian card
front 		Avian card
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