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At 866 acres, Robert Ney Memorial Park Reserve is the second largest park in the Wright County park system. It consists of two units separated by Endicott Avenue NW. A recent land acquisition has connected the two units. The larger West Unit consists of hilly oak woodland, one mile of wooded shoreline around Mary Lake, a small unnamed lake surrounded by marsh, and a second small marsh. The East Unit is a more work in progress. It includes a prairie restoration on a hill, a wetland, and a hardwood seeding. The seeding is mostly red oak and rock elm. In August of 1970 Albert Ney arranged to have land deeded to Wright County upon his death along with a trust fund. That land became Robert Ney Memorial Park. A small chapel was erected in 1973 to honor Albert’s son Robert, who died in World War II. The Environmental Education Center, now called Ney Nature Center, was constructed in 1996. By 2011, the park had expanded to 866 acres. Robert Ney Memorial Park Reserve is adjacent to the 245-acre Maple Lake Wildlife Management Area. There are more than 10 miles of natural surface hiking trails, not all of which are mapped as of this writing (January 2016). |
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Size |
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East Unit: 395 acres West Unit: 451 acres |
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6:00 a.m. until 10:00 p.m. |
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No fee |
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Hiking Trails |
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East Unit: 3.8 miles mapped, more than 1 mile unmapped (1/2016) West Unit: 5.4 miles |
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Hunting |
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No hunting |
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Ecological Province | Eastern Broadleaf Forest Province |
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Ecological Section | Minnesota & NE Iowa Morainal |
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Ecological Subsection | Big Woods |
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Land Type Association | Maple Plain Moraine |
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Cattail - Sedge Marsh (Prairie) |
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* Source: The Minnesota Biological Survey, Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, Division of Ecological Resources | |||||||
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October 27 2013 Trumpeter Swan Rescue Bill Doms |
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Published on Oct 27, 2013 Swan rescue at the Robert E Ney Nature Reserve in Wright county Minnesota near Maple Lake. The swan was transported to the Wildlife Rehab Center in Roseville, MN for a evaluation of it's wing injury. |
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My Granddaughters First Dogsled Ride huskyhauler |
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Published on Feb 23, 2013 Running with my Siberian Huskies at Robert Ney Memorial Park, Minnesota |
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