Quick State Park Trip: Sakatah State Park

Yesterday, my boys and I headed an hour south of the Cities to get their 53rd MN State Parks stamp in their passport. We headed to Sakatah Lake to do some fishing:

Following a rocky creek to the fishing pier...


... of course, the boys had to walk THROUGH the creek.


A beautiful morning on the pier.




MN adults without a fishing license can legally fish within MN State Parks.
(Even with a non-superhero fishing pole... if you so choose.)


Charlie said this reminded him of the pier we fished off of while camping with Grandma.

There were NO signs of ANY fish in this lake. Seriously. Nothing. So we put the poles back in the car and explored trails along the shoreline for another hour:

Back in the rocky creek.


Some signs of spring.


Lots of moss along the shore.


Running down a big hill (hard to make out the 15' drop in this pic).


Under the Sakatah Bike Trail near the boat launch. That bike trail was where Matt and I
took home 2 duathlon "team wins" at the 2008 and 2009 Cannon Wells Du!


A marshy area full of noisy frogs and quiet turtles.

We were the 4th car in the park and the only 1 in the "fishing pier" lot when we got there. When we left, the first lot was full (maybe 15 cars), and the fishing pier lot had nearly 10 cars in it as well. So we got out before social distancing became an issue.

We then drove 15 mins back into Faribault to meet my parents for an outdoor "social distance" lunch. They treated us to DQ, gave us some fresh rolls and frozen garden veggies, and I gave them 3 flats of veggie plants that I had started from seed for their garden.

DQ fries on a nice afternoon.