Father Hennepin State Park

   

Father Hennepin State Park

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Area and County

 

 

 

Mille Lacs County

 

 

 

 

 


Size

275 acres

 
 
Maps

Minnesota DNR All Season Map

 
Park Office

N46 8.621 W93 28.970

 
Hiking Trails

4 miles
¾ mile interpretive
½ mile handicapped accessible


Ecological Classification

Province

Laurentian Mixed Forest Province

Ecological Classification

Section

Western Superior Uplands

Subsection(s)

Mille Lacs Uplands

Land Type Association(s)

Eastside Till Plain

Mille Lacs Lake

 
Native Plant Communities1

Low Shrub Poor Fen

Northern Mixed Cattail Marsh

Northern Poor Conifer Swamp

Poor Tamarack - Black Spruce Swamp

Red Oak - Basswood Forest (Noncalcareous Till)


Ownership

Minnesota Department of Natural Resources

 
Links

Minnesota DNR


Comments

This park is located on the southeast shore of Mille Lacs Lake.


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Park Entrance Father Hennepin State Park            
               
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Birds

Minnesota DNR Bird Checklist

 
  double-crested cormorant (Phalacrocorax auritus) Dougle-crested Cormorant

Insects and Arachnids

 

 
 

forest tent caterpillar (Malacosoma disstria)

friendly fly (Sarcophaga aldrichi)

forest tent caterpillar

Plants  
 
 

American starflower (Trientalis borealis)

common blue violet (Viola sororia)

downy yellow violet (Viola pubescens var. pubescens)

Jack-in-the-pulpit (Arisaema triphyllum)

large-flowered trillium (Trillium grandiflorum)

wild columbine (Aquilegia canadensis)

wild geranium (Geranium maculatum)

large-flowered trillium

 

 

 

 

wild columbine

 


  1. Source: Minnesota County Biological Survey

Visits

5/27/2001

   
               

 

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