Rice Lake State Park and Mountain Biking at Kaplan's Woods

Before the boys head back to school this week, we explored Rice Lake State Park yesterday. For us, it was MN state park #64 out of 71.

Then the boys and I hit some single track mountain bike loops at Kaplan’s Woods. They LOVED that! I was really impressed with how well they did, and they can't wait to mountain bike again.

The photo my wife took before us boys headed into the woods.


A couple of shaky selfies over my shoulder at the boys riding behind me.




There were a few small bridges made out of branches...


... and then this bigger one over some rocks that the boys loved!




Riding on the wood chips back to the car.

The 3 of us did 2 loops (of about a mile), and then Henry and I did a 3rd loop faster without Charlie. Henry was working that last loop! There are 6 more miles of harder trails out there, and we've love to come back at try the next level (although I bet all 3 of us would be off our bikes a lot to navigate jumps/branches/obstacles).