Itasca State Park September 4-7, 2015 (Labor Day Weekend)

We headed to our favorite Minnesota State Park over Labor Day Weekend - Itasca.

The weather was super hot and humid and I had a icky cold, but we still managed to bike over 50 miles and relaxed.

Bike Trail

Our site in Bear Paw campground with a great view of the lake

Headwaters

Douglas Lodge

Itasca State Park, July 17-20, 2014

Itasca State Park has 2 campgrounds. Pine Ridge is the newer campground. The sites are a bit more open in the front part and very private and wooded in the back. The back sites don't have electricity. The bathrooms in this park are newer and very nice offering private bathroom facilities and single room showers. The other campground is Bear Paw. They have a few housekeeping cabins, the bathrooms are log cabin and you can see the lake from some of the sites. We stayed at Bear Paw this trip and really liked this campground. We were with my family so we had 3 sites and one of the cabins. The sites aren't huge in this park, but they are nice and our site was very private. 

Itasca story at the Museum near the beach/picnic area.

 Museum

 Amphitheater near the museum

 Path to the headwaters from the picnic grounds

Campground road in Bear Paw campground

One of the bathrooms in Bear Paw campground

View of the lake from Bear Paw campground

View of the campground in Bear Paw

Wilderness Trail road/bike path (total circle of bike trails = 17 miles)

Part of the scavenger hunt we did

Path from the headwaters store to the headwaters

Our campsite

 Headwaters

Itasca State Park - August, 2013

Made a last minute trip up to Itasca State Park. We didn't have the greatest site, but we had beautiful weather and did ALOT of biking. Brad's parents drove up for the day.

Obligatory picture of the start of the Mississippi

Biking path

Part of the lake where the riverboat tour starts

Old log cabin

Itasca - 4th of July week, 2012

We went to Itasca State Park for 8 nights over the 4th of July.  We missed getting here last year because of the state shutdown.  We had hot beautiful weather with the exception of one night when a very fast storm came through and took down quite a few trees.  There is so much to do at Itasca - we walked, swam, biked over 100 miles, took out a paddle boat and golfed twice at a nearby course. 

Our campsite

 The bike rental area

The beginning of the Wilderness drive (you can also bike it as it's a one way road)  From the campsite and back it's a total of 17 miles

 Here's what the Wilderness trail looks like

 Storm damage

 Mississippi Headwaters

 View of Lake Itasca

 Picnic Area

 Swimming Beach