Wood Lake

I spent time yesterday afternoon at Wood Lake Nature Center in Richfield, an inner-ring suburb of Minneapolis, MN. I last enjoyed the beauty of this area of urban wilderness in April, just before my Australian sojourn of 2024.

Notes Wikipedia:

In addition to Wood Lake, the park contains mixed lowland forest, cattail marsh, and restored prairie habitats. Three miles of walking trails and boardwalks surround the lake as well as observation shelters, docks, a picnic area, and an outdoor amphitheater. The trails at Wood Lake are either paved or made with crushed limestone, making them widely accessible during summer months. There is an Interpretive Center in Wood Lake Nature Center staffed by naturalists who offer year round classes for adults and children.

According to the Wood Lake Nature Center’s website, Wood Lake was once a recreational lake surrounded by homes. Most of Wood Lakes’s water drained during the 1950s, due in part to the effects of the construction of nearby Interstate Highway 35W. The city of Richfield founded the Wood Lake Nature Center in 1971

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See also the previous Wild Reed posts:
• Photo of the Day – February 10, 2024
• Photo of the Day – September 23, 2023
• Photo of the Day – June 17, 2023
• Photo of the Day – December 13, 2022
• Photo of the Day – January 26, 2017
• The Now
• Within You
• Sunlight and Reeds
• An Evening Canoeing on Bde Maka Ska
• Bde Maka Ska Sunset
• Pelican Lake
• Weekend at Pelican Lake
• Days of Summer on the Bayfield Peninsula

Images: Michael J. Bayly.