Sakatah Lake State Park

   

Sakatah Lake State Park

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Area and County

 

 

 

Le Sueur and Rice Counties

 

 

 


Size

842 acres

 
 
Maps

Minnesota DNR All Season Map

 
Park Office

N44 13.500, W93 31.341

 
Hiking Trails

5 miles
0.36 mile handicapped accessible trail

Sakatah Singing Hills State Trail, a 39-mile paved multiple-use trail, runs through the park.

 
Hunting

No hunting.


Ecological Classification

Province

Eastern Broadleaf Forest Province

Ecological Classification

Section

Minnesota & NE Iowa Morainal

Subsection(s)

Big Woods
Oak Savanna

Land Type Association(s)

Cordova Moraine

Iosco Moraine

 
Native Plant Communities1

Dry Hill Prairie (Southern)

Red Oak - Sugar Maple - Basswood - (Bitternut Hickory) Forest

Southern Dry-Mesic Oak (Maple) Woodland


Ownership

Minnesota Department of Natural Resources

 
Links

Minnesota DNR


Comments

 


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Amphibians

 

 
 

boreal chorus frog (Pseudacris maculata)

northern leopard frog (Rana pipiens)

spring peeper (Pseudacris crucifer)

northern leopard frog

Birds

Minnesota DNR Bird Checklist

 
 

American Crow (Corvus brachyrhynchos)

American Robin (Turdus migratorius)

American White Pelican (Pelecanus erythrorhynchos)

Black-capped Chickadee (Poecile atricapillus)

Blue-winged Teal (Anas discors)

Bufflehead (Bucephala albeola)

Canada Goose (Branta canadensis)

Double-crested Cormorant (Phalacrocorax auritus)

Gray Catbird (Dumetella carolinensis)

Great Blue Heron (Ardea herodias)

Hairy Woodpecker (Picoides villosus)

Mallard (Anas platyrhynchos)

Northern Cardinal (Cardinalis cardinalis)

Northern Pintail (Anas acuta)

Northern Shoveler (Anas clypeata)

Pied-billed Grebe (Podilymbus podiceps)

Pileated Woodpecker (Dryocopus pileatus)

Swamp Sparrow (Melospiza georgiana)

Turkey Vulture (Cathartes aura)

Wood Duck (Aix sponsa)

Yellow-bellied Sapsucker (Sphyrapicus varius)

Yellow-rumped Warbler (Dendroica coronata)

American Robin

 

 

 

 

Black-capped Chickadee

 

 

 

 

Canada Goose

 

 

 

 

Double-crested Cormorant

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mallard


Fungi

 

 
 

Black Knot (Apiosporina morbosa)

Black Knot


Insects and Arachnids

 

 
 

bald-faced hornet (Dolichovespula maculata)

chokecherry finger gall mite (Eriophyes emarginatae)

eastern comma (Polygonia comma)

eastern tent caterpillar (Malacosoma americanum)

goldenrod gall fly (Eurosta solidaginis)

mourning cloak (Nymphalis antiopa)

red admiral (Vanessa atalanta)

eastern comma

 

 

 

 

eastern tent caterpillar

 


Mammals

 

 
 

American red squirrel (Tamiasciurus hudsonicus)

eastern fox squirrel (Sciurus niger)

whitetail deer (Odocoileus virginianus)

whitetail deer

Plants

Plants frequently found in:

Dry Hill Prairie (Southern) UPs13d

Red Oak - Sugar Maple - Basswood - (Bitternut Hickory) Forest MHs38c

Southern Dry-Mesic Oak (Maple) Woodland FDs37

 
 

American basswood (Tilia americana)

American elm (Ulmus americana)

amur maple (Acer ginnala)

bitternut hickory (Carya cordiformis)

black cherry (Prunus serotina var. serotina)

black walnut (Juglans nigra)

black-seeded plantain (Plantago rugelii var. rugelii)

bloodroot (Sanguinaria canadensis)

blue cohosh (Caulophyllum thalictroides)

boxelder (Acer negundo var. negundo)

bristly greenbrier (Smilax tamnoides)

bur oak (Quercus macrocarpa var. macrocarpa)

Canada mayflower (Maianthemum canadense)

Canada moonseed (Menispermum canadense)

Canadian woodnettle (Laportea canadensis)

catnip (Nepeta cataria)

chokecherry (Prunus virginiana var. virginiana)

cleavers (Galium aparine)

common blue violet (Viola sororia)

common buckthorn (Rhamnus cathartica)

common burdock (Arctium minus)

common dandelion (Taraxacum officinale ssp. officinale)

common false Solomon’s seal (Maianthemum racemosum var. racemosum)

common mullein (Verbascum thapsus)

common strawberry (Fragaria virginiana)

cut-leaved toothwort (Cardamine concatenata)

downy yellow violet (Viola pubescens var. pubescens)

Dutchman’s breeches (Dicentra cucullaria)

eastern false rue anemone (Enemion biternatum)

eastern prickly gooseberry (Ribes cynosbati)

eastern redcedar (Juniperus virginiana var. virginiana)

fragrant bedstraw (Galium triflorum)

gray dogwood (Cornus racemosa)

great St. Johnswort (Hypericum ascyron ssp. pyramidatum)

green ash (Fraxinus pennsylvanica)

ground ivy (Glechoma hederacea)

ironwood (Ostrya virginiana var. virginiana)

Jack-in-the-pulpit (Arisaema triphyllum)

Japanese barberry (Berberis thunbergii)

kidney-leaved buttercup (Ranunculus abortivus)

large-flowered bellwort (Uvularia grandiflora)

late goldenrod (Solidago altissima)

Missouri gooseberry (Ribes missouriense)

nodding trillium (Trillium cernuum)

northern hackberry (Celtis occidentalis)

northern lady fern (Athyrium filix-femina ssp. angustum)

northern pin oak (Quercus ellipsoidalis)

northern prickly ash (Zanthoxylum americanum)

northern red oak (Quercus rubra)

northern white cedar (Thuja occidentalis)

ostrich fern (Matteuccia struthiopteris var. pensylvanica)

pagoda dogwood (Cornus alternifolia)

plains cottonwood (Populus deltoides ssp. molinifera)

quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides)

red baneberry (Actaea rubra ssp. rubra)

red elderberry (Sambucus racemosa var. racemosa)

red osier dogwood (Cornus sericea ssp. sericea)

scouring rush horsetail (Equisetum hyemale var. affine)

sharp-lobed hepatica (Anemone acutiloba)

silver maple (Acer saccharinum)

slippery elm (Ulmus rubra)

smooth Solomon’s seal (Polygonatum biflorum var. commutatum)

smooth sumac (Rhus glabra)

staghorn sumac (Rhus hirta)

starry false Solomon’s seal (Maianthemum stellatum)

sugar maple (Acer saccharum)

Virginia waterleaf (Hydrophyllum virginianum var. virginianum)

western poison ivy (Toxicodendron rydbergii)

white oak (Quercus alba)

white rattlesnake root (Nabalus albus)

white trout lily (Erythronium albidum)

wild bergamot (Monarda fistulosa)

wild blue phlox (Phlox divaricata ssp. laphamii)

wild columbine (Aquilegia canadensis)

wild geranium (Geranium maculatum)

wild ginger (Asarum canadense)

wild grape (Vitis riparia)

wild leek (Allium tricoccum)

wild sarsaparilla (Aralia nudicaulis)

woodbine (Parthenocissus vitacea)

woodland strawberry (Fragaria vesca ssp. americana)

zigzag goldenrod (Solidago flexicaulis)

American basswood

 

 

 

 

black cherry

 

 

 

 

bloodroot

 

 

 

 

bur oak

 

 

 

 

catnip

 

 

 

 

chokecherry

 

 

 

 

common blue violet

 

 

 

 

common false Solomon’s seal

 

 

 

 

eastern false rue anemone

 

 

 

 

gray dogwood

 

 

 

 

large-flowered bellwort

 

 

 

 

nodding trillium

 

 

 

 

northern pin oak

 

 

 

 

northern prickly ash

 

 

 

 

red baneberry

 

 

 

 

red elderberry

 

 

 

 

sharp-lobed hepatica

 

 

 

 

Virginia waterleaf

 

 

 

 

white rattlesnake root

 

 

 

 

wild geranium

 

 

 

 

wild ginger

 

 

 

 

woodland strawberry

 

 


Visits

10/29/2005

4/20/2012

   
               

 

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