Nerstrand Woods State Park
| hiking, waterfall, forest
USA /
Minnesota /
Nerstrand /
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/ USA
/ Minnesota
/ Nerstrand
World / United States / Minnesota
park, hiking, waterfall, forest

The eastern part of Rice County is gently rolling land that was once covered by a large forest of hardwoods called the "Big Woods" by early explorers and settlers. These woods, some 45 miles wide and running from central Minnesota to the southeast, consisted mainly of maple, basswood, white and red elm and red oak. The early settlers wasted no time in clearing these woods for farming, leaving little to be remembered except for an occasional grove.
A remnant of these woods, standing east of Faribault, a thousand-acre memorial to the Big Woods.
www.dnr.state.mn.us/state_parks/nerstrand_big_woods/ind...
A remnant of these woods, standing east of Faribault, a thousand-acre memorial to the Big Woods.
www.dnr.state.mn.us/state_parks/nerstrand_big_woods/ind...
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nerstrand-Big_Woods_State_Park
Nearby cities:
Coordinates: 44°20'29"N 93°6'39"W
- Caron Park 4.7 km
- Wilderness Park 10 km
- Alexander North and Alexander South Parks 14 km
- River Bend Nature Center 14 km
- Carleton's Cowling Arboretum 17 km
- Christmas Tree Farm 19 km
- Lake Byllesby Regional County Park 24 km
- Cannon Valley Fairgrounds 25 km
- McCullough Park 27 km
- Rice Lake State Park 27 km
- Northfield Golf Club 13 km
- Carleton College 14 km
- Christmas Tree Farm 19 km
- Cascade, Minnesota 20 km
- Summit Golf Club 21 km
- Sod Farm 22 km
- Phillippo Scout Reservation 22 km
- Lake Byllesby 22 km
- Cannon Golf Club 24 km
- Gopher Hills Golf Course 35 km
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