Showing posts with label Sibley State Park. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sibley State Park. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 26, 2015

Sibley State Park - Memorial Weekend 2015

May 22-25, 2015

We went to Sibley State Park for Memorial weekend which is just outside the city of New London, Minnesota. There are two campgrounds here. Lakeside is considered the more social campground. It's close to Lake Andrew and the sites are pretty close together. We noticed alot more big campers and not sure if that's the trend of if this campground just attracts the bigger rigs. It's strange because the sites aren't that big and the roads in the campground are pretty narrow with alot of trees. We saw a few people having difficulty getting into their site. We had site #1. When I booked, all of the sites we like were booked and this site is a pull through across the road from the camphosts. We weren't sure how private it would be, but it ended up being a really nice site with lots of space.







The other campground at Sibley (Oakwood) is all non-electric. It used to almost all be out in the open, but the trees have grown in and there are some very nice large sites, but no electricity.

There is also a group camp, a horse camp, swimming beach, a couple piers to fish from as well as quite a bit of hiking including the most popular hike to Mount Tom.








Sunday, May 18, 2014

Sibley State Park May 15-18, 2014

Headed to Sibley State Park for the first camping outing of the summer. The weekend started a bit cool (high of only 54 on Thursday), but it was sunny and by Saturday it was 70 degrees. The park was only about half full in the lower campground and only about 5 campers in the upper campground. We hiked to Mount Tom, rode bikes and just relaxed taking in the warm sunshine.

Badger Hill hike on the way to Mount Tom

View on the hike to Mt. Tom


View from Mt. Tom

Mt. Tom

Our campsite

 The campground isn't very full

Thursday, March 20, 2014

May, 2013 Sibley State Park

Our first camping trip of Summer 2013 was to Sibley State Park. We decided to rough it and stay in the non-electric upper campground. The sites in this campground are much larger and spaced out, but they don't have electricity. It was COLD and with the new truck we didn't have the electric quite figured out. Thank goodness it got nice during the day. It was beautiful weather for hiking. The park was pretty empty. Even the turtles were out enjoying the sun!






Thursday, July 12, 2012

Sibley State Park June 14-17, 2012

Here's a view of our campsite. 

 This is a spot where many people fish.  It's down about a mile from the campground.  Can get their either by walking, biking or driving. 
 The sign to Mt. Tom.  There are many walking trails to get to the top or you can bike up to the parking area (it's almost all up hill and a tough ride!)

Here's the view from the top of Mt. Tom

The top of Mt. Tom viewing tower

Another view from the top of Mt. Tom

 There was a baby fawn laying in the grass up on Mt. Tom.  Not sure where his mom was?


Friday, August 5, 2011

Sibley State Park - July 22-24, 2011

The state parks re-opened on July 21st so we headed out for the weekend to Sibley State Park. The lower campground was only about a third full and there were only 2 campers in the upper campground. Normally at this time of the year, the park would be full. It was a beautiful weekend and we got alot of biking and swimming in. Brad also did quite a bit of fishing and caught 40 sunfish in an hour!

Look how empty the campground is!

View from the campground down to the lake
bike path going towards the fishing area

Brad fishing
Sibley State Park has an interpretitive center

Interpretive Center
Lake Andrew
Store down by the lake - they sell lots of ice cream treats


Another view of the lake

Park Office

Monday, April 12, 2010

Sibley State Park (April 9-11, 2010)

We headed to Sibley State Park this past weekend. The weather was unseasonably warm (in the 60's). The bathrooms weren't open yet and there was no water, but there were about 17 other campers.

Fishhouse - looking towards the lake from the campground


picnic/beach area


picnic/beach area


Mount Tom trail


Mount Tom


Interpretive Center


Interpretive Center


Bike path trails

Here's our campsite