Fall Colors
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St Louis
Oct 23, 2022 to Oct 29, 2022We planned a trip to St Louis to coincide with the area’s peak fall colors by comparing past fall foliage reports and hoped mother nature wouldn’t trick us this year. Unfortunately, just three days after booking the accommodation in July, St Louis broke the 100-year wettest day record where the historic flood water rose to… Read more…
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Nerstrand Big Woods State Park
Oct 16, 2022Our seasonal leaf peering activities continued — this time, in Nerstrand Big Woods State Park. This park was named after a Norwegian village where its settlers farmed in this area in the mid-1850s. Although we vividly remember hiking in this park before, that was exactly ten years ago in the fall season, much to our… Read more…
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New Ulm
Oct 13, 2022 to Oct 14, 2022New Ulm — proclaimed “the most German town in America” — has intrigued us for many years. This small city only has a population of 14,000, and it was named after the city of Neu-Ulm in Germany because many original settlers came from that area. When we made a day trip to Mankato earlier this… Read more…
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Theodore Roosevelt National Park
Oct 4, 2021 to Oct 8, 2021We escaped to the Great Plains to visit Theodore Roosevelt National Park (TRNP). In the past, this national park never made it high enough on our list because we worried there was nothing to see, not to mention the long boring drive to a place that is practically surrounded by flat and uninteresting landscapes. However,… Read more…
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Fall Colors in Upper Peninsula
Oct 12, 2020 to Oct 16, 2020The Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, or simply known as “UP”, has been in our fall season travel bucket list for a long time, but we never made it there because it is located too far away. This year, we decided to do some social distancing in the UP to catch some fall colors. Due to the… Read more…
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Fall Colors in Minnesota’s North Shore
Oct 10, 2019 to Oct 13, 2019Being Minnesotans, we have a tradition of visiting the Minnesota’s North Shore every few years to catch the fall colors. Prior to this trip, we learned about the potential historic fall snowstorm with frigid temperatures across portions of the north central of the US. We could only hope it wouldn’t derail most of our fall… Read more…
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Camping in Itasca State Park
Sep 28, 2017 to Oct 1, 2017Spent three nights camping in Itasca State Park. We covered almost all state parks along the North Shore but never been to the northwestern part of Minnesota until now. We initially planned to do this trip on the first week of October, but decided to move it up a few days earlier because the state… Read more…
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Peacocking in Stillwater
Oct 22, 2016Spent a beautiful afternoon in Stillwater taking family photos for Andy and Jenny. Richard and Keith donned their Lego Ninjago costumes while Audree ran around the park as a peacock…. certainly quite a sight to see a baby human peacock. The fall color was a little past peak but we were able to find some… Read more…
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Winona & Great River Bluffs State Park
Oct 17, 2015Did a half day trip to Winona and Great River Bluffs State Park to see fall colors. After having lunch in Winona, we bought some donuts from the well known Bloedow’s Bakery before strolling along Winona Lake. Then, we spent a few hours in Great River Bluffs State Park. It was rather past peak at… Read more…
