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Category: Trail Maintenance
Border Route Trail: spring clearing trip Arrive: Thursday May 15 for early start May16 Depart: Sunday May 18 Hold your spot deposit of $25 required. I am planning a wilderness trail clearing trip to the Watap Lake area of the BRT. We will canoe in and base camp at the western most camp site on …
Border route trail clearing — BWCA wilderness, MNView trip details »
Category: Backpacking
This Zoom session covers planning your clothing, so you’ll be ready for anything nature throws at you—heat, cold, rain, and bugs. Learn which fabrics work best, how much to pack, how to layer, and how to NOT spend a fortune. This session is the second of two offerings for Clothing. If you attended the first …
Beginner Backpacking Education Series: Clothing — VirtualView trip details »
Trip FullCategory: Hiking, Other Summer Activities
This is a two-week canal boat trip in the counties of Shropshire and Cheshire bordering Wales, and Staffordshire and the West Midlands north of London. We will be cruising the Shropshire Union Canal, Staffordshire and Worcester Canal, Trent and Mersey Canal and the Middlewich Arm. The canal boat will be our moving base of operations, …
CanceledCategory: Hiking, Bicycling, Camping, Paddling
Let’s camp at nearby William O’Brien State Park over Memorial Day weekend. The park is less than an hour from most of the Twin Cities area along the St. Croix River north of Stillwater. We’ll camp at the Riverside group site, which has vault toilets and may not have water due to construction that is …
Camping, Hiking, Biking, Paddling — William O’Brien State Park, MNView trip details »
Category: Backpacking, Trail Maintenance
We will arrive Thursday evening, convening at the Rockwood Lodge bunkhouse. Friday morning around 8am, we will embark on a five-mile backpacking trip to the eastern shore of Partridge Lake to establish our base camp. This location provides optimal access to a remote section of the trail. After spending two days trail clearing, we will …
Trail Maintenance — Border Route Trail-East Partridge Lake, MNView trip details »
Trip Full Wait List OpenCategory: Hiking, Bicycling, Camping, Other Summer Activities
Join us for a visit to Minnesota’s Bluff Country and camp at Whitewater State Park in early June. Whitewater State Park is one of Minnesota’s most popular parks, east of Rochester, about a 2 hour scenic drive from the Twin Cities. It has a very low mosquito population (gnats are possible), great bluffs to hike …
Camping, Hiking, Biking & More — Whitewater SP, Elba, MNView trip details »
Category: Hiking, Bicycling, Camping, Paddling, Climbing
Join the Minnesota Rovers community for a weekend to make new friends and memories, learn new skills, and enjoy the beauty of nature. Our Spring 2025 Extravaganza is scheduled from Thursday, June 5 to Sunday, June 8, 2025 at Wild River State Park. Activities will be scheduled all weekend. Past Extravaganzas have offered hiking, biking, …
Spring 2025 Extravaganza — Wild River State Park, Center City, MNView trip details »
Category: Hiking, Paddling, Other Summer Activities
Hello Rovers! Join us for this year’s Rovers Astronomy Weekend trip to Long Lake Conservation Center (LLCC)! This year’s trip will be from Fri. 6/27 thru Sun. 6/29. On this trip we’ll hike, paddle, nature walk and do other Roverish activities during the day, and then stargaze at night, peering at some of the sky’s cosmic wonders thru …
2025 Rovers Astronomy Weekend — Long Lake Conservation Center (LLCC), MNView trip details »
Trip Full Wait List OpenCategory: Hiking, Bicycling, Camping, Paddling, Other Summer Activities
Let’s visit Wyalusing State Park in Southwest Wisconsin over the July 4th weekend. Dates are Wednesday, July 2 to Monday, July 7, 2025, designed to avoid the high-traffic travel days. Wyalusing is on top of the 500-foot bluffs at the confluence of the Wisconsin and Mississippi rivers. The park is roughly 4 hours from the …
Camping, Hiking, Biking, Paddling — Wyalusing State Park, WIView trip details »
Trip Full Wait List OpenCategory: Hiking, Bicycling, Camping, Paddling, Other Summer Activities
Raise your hand if you’ve always wanted to go to Door County WI, because now is your chance! We have two group camp sites reserved for six nights, allowing you lots of time to play and explore. We’ll be car camping at Peninsula State Park, so bring all your toys (road bikes, mountain bikes, kayaks, canoes). …