| Breseden Park in Edina, MN features a network of marshy trail loops tucked into a neighborhood against the border of MN-62. Parking in a small lot strip, the nature trail starts at a gate next to the bathrooms. The northernmost loop inside the park is particularly hilly. The second loop I encountered was partially paved with old asphalt. A broad dirt path loop extends around the wide marsh near the highway, but I stuck to the broaded paved paths for brevity. You Are Here signs are pretty adequately posted along the trails (and it’s certainly worth checking them as you make your way through the network of paths). The outermost loop around the north side of the park appeared to be a bike trail, but we ran out of time to investigate. Other trails from the parking lot seem to lead into the surrounding neighborhood The park has many very tall native cottonwood trees but is also quite thick with aggressively-invasive buckthorn trees. The parking lot was fairly full on a Sunday morning. The primary entrance and exit for the park are at the south end of the lot near the bathroom, though there’s a fence gap on the north end of the lot that was open enough to escape when I got turned around. |
Nature In Your Nurture 