Mille Lacs Kathio State Park - August 8-10, 2014

We went to Mille Lacs Kathio State Park for the weekend. We stayed in our favorite site #40 which is private and has lots of space. It was hot so we did a little swimming (they have a swimming pond which isn't the greatest place to swim but it was busy). The campground is located next to the Rum river and you can rent canoes and kayaks. It's also just down the road from Mille Lacs Lake. The main roads are all tarred so there is quite a bit of biking you can do between the 2 campgrounds, picnic/swim area and the entrance/store. There are 2 campgrounds - the Petaga campground has electric sites and the Ogechie campground is all non electric (they also do not have a shower house or flush toilets). There is quite a bit of hiking along the river and in the woods as well. The sites in Petaga are fairly large and private.

Our site

The bath house in Petaga campground

Petaga campground road

Another view of our site

The site next to us - it was empty the first nite

One of the many trails to hike

Gull Lake Corp of Engineer Park (Brainerd, MN) July 28 - August 2, 2014

We decided to spend a week relaxing in Minnesota this year for our summer vacation. We headed up to the Gull Lake Corp of Engineer park. The sites are large and very long and the park is quiet yet close to everything.

The town of Nisswa is a cute little tourist area with shops, restaurants and one of the bike trail stops for the Paul Bunyan trail.

There is a ton of golf around if you are into that. We golfed Madden's which has 4 courses and they are all very nice.

The Gull Lake COE provides rakes and shovels - this is really nice in the fall when there are alot of leaves around.

 Our site

The road thru the park

 The dam where we always saw someone fishing and they were catching fish!

 The Gull River which runs into Gull Lake.

The park in the campground

One of the biffies - they keep everything really clean.

Swimming area

Paul Bunyan trail just outside Pine River (we biked from Nisswa to Pine River)

Bike trail through Kavanaugh's resort

 Ernie's on Gull Lake - great view and good food

Nisswa - great place to bike to or start your ride

Madden's Golf course

Bike trail in Pequot Lakes

More of the Paul Bunyan trail

Crow Wing State Park (we biked from the Brainerd, MN trail head to Crow Wing - 36 miles round trip)

Bike trail goes over the Mississippi river