2023 10 15 - Afton State Park - Afton MN

Picture: Paved trail.

This trail is mostly flat as far as we walk it except for right near the restrooms there is a little dip that would be work for someone in a wheel chair. After that is is flat for about the next mile. From there it does drop down to a creek but we have never gone that far.

The website says there are 4 miles of paved trails but only 6/10ths is wheelchair accessible.

Today we did the paved trail south. We had talked about doing a longer walk but we are still feeling yesterdays walk at Wild River. So once we got to the split, we opted to just do a shorter walk. We walked to about where the path starts to drop and then took a grass path for a ways.

I thought the grass pay went almost all the way back to the restrooms / parking lot but now it is not mowed anymore and seems to be grown up in trees. So maybe it never was there.

At one point in our past, we had maps of the closest parks and which trails we had been on and when. My guess is they got tossed when we got rid of whichever car we were driving at the time. Website says there are 20 miles of hiking trails. My guess is we have been on over 15 miles of them at different times. To do that, we have to get up to walking more than 3 miles a day to get to the furthest points and back.

Nice day. Parking lot was close to full. Lots of paths so we didn't see too many people.

This and Fort Snelling are the only state parks I know of that clear the trails in the winter time. Afton clears one mile of paved trail in the wintertime. All others are for cross country skiing.

It is a state park. There is a fee.

Picture: Unpaved trail.