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Category: Hiking
Hey, if you like hiking on weekdays but can’t make this hike, for future reference let me know what days or times are generally good for you. This “warm-up” hike covering much of the Voyageur Trek Trail at Lebanon Hills will be about 4.7 miles. We’ll leave from the Holland Lake trail head parking lot promptly at …
Warm-up Hike — Lebanon Hills Regional Park, Eagan, MNView trip details »
Category: Hiking
Please join me for a hilly fitness hike with a choice of a 6-ish or 8-ish mile loop at Murphy-Hanrehan Park Reserve on the south side of the Twin Cities! We will be hiking on scenic wooded trails, speckled with lake views. This is labeled as a Fitness Hike because we will maintain a brisk …
Fitness Hike — Murphy- Hanrehan Park, Savage, MNView trip details »
Category: Hiking
Join Heidi and me for a 3-4 mile hike along the beautiful 9-Mile Creek in Bloomington this Sunday at 11:00 starting in Moir Park. The park is doing some work removing trees, etc., but as of last Saturday, all paths were open and dry. We’ll stay on the creek path toward the river then come …
Hike 9 Mile Creek — Moir Park, Bloomington , MNView trip details »
Category: Bicycling
Join us for an early season bike ride from the Longfellow Grill, 2990 W River Parkway, Mpls, on Monday, March 30, 2026, at 6:00 pm. I am still deciding on the route but it will either be an out and back of approximately 14 miles or a 17 mile loop. Pace of ride is 10-12 …
Category: Hiking, Camping, Paddling
Visit the Upper Buffalo National Scenic River in April! The main focus is paddling the river one day, supplemented by lots of other activities in this beautiful area. This is the nation’s first national scenic river, and it does not disappoint. We will drive down to Ponca, Arkansas, and camp along the river. Thursday or …
Paddling, Hiking, and Camping — Buffalo National River, Ponca, ARView trip details »
Category: Other Summer Activities
Did you know that the only gorge along the Mississippi River is the stretch from downtown Minneapolis to downtown St. Paul? Help to keep it beautiful! Celebrate Earth Day by participating in a River Gorge Earth Day Cleanup sponsored by Minneapolis Parks and Rec. We have our own section of river, so we will need lots of …
Trip Full Wait List OpenCategory: Hiking, Other Summer Activities
Description: An 11-night canal boat trip starting in Bath, through the counties of Wiltshire and Berkshire in southern England, west of London. Each day we will explore 8-10 hours through scenic villages, ancient castles and churches, and dramatic overlooks, with 4-5 hours spent cruising through the lovely English countryside. We’ll take short rail or bus …
Canal Boating, Hiking, Sightseeing — Kennet & Avon Canal, EnglandView trip details »
Category: Other Summer Activities
I invite you to help Rovers promote our club by ‘tabling’ at an event titled “Spring Beer & Gear” being held at Hombeck Boats & Outdoor Supply (NE corner of Broadway St N & Central Ave NE) by Hombeck & Lake State Mountaineering (continuing the tradition set by Midwest Mountaineering). The event is open to …
Category: Trail Maintenance
Spring is approaching quickly and so are the trail maintenance trips on the Border Route Trail (a unit of the National Park Service’s North Country National Scenic Trail). This trip will focus on the non-wilderness west end which is a 17 mile section near Gunflint Lake. The non-wilderness section of trail maintenance is done with …
Category: Camping, Paddling, Trail Maintenance
Meeting at Entry Point 62 Clearwater Lake Friday May 8 at 1:30 PM Canoe to most eastern campsite on Clearwater Lake (Clearwater #9) and set up basecamp. Saturday and Sunday we will clear the trail of dead fall and brush using hand tool starting at Gogebec Lake and work our way west 3.6 miles to …
Border Route Trail Clearing — Clearwater Lake, MinnesotaView trip details »
Category: Trail Maintenance
A spring maintenance trip is planned on the east end of the Border Route Trail Friday, May 15 thru Sunday, May 17. This is hiking and trail maintenance on the Border Route Trail, a segment of the North Country National Scenic Trail, on the eastern edge of the BWCA Wilderness area. We will car camp …
Category: Hiking, Camping, Paddling, Trail Maintenance
We will meet at the Lake McFarland car camping area (at the end of the Arrowhead Trail) on Thursday night, May 21. On Friday morning, we will canoe across Lake McFarland toward Pine Lake. We will set up a base camp either at the campsite on the spit of land between McFarland and Pine Lake …
Border Route Trail Clearing — Lake McFarland, MNView trip details »
Category: Hiking, Bicycling, Paddling
Please join me for an introvert-friendly camping trip to Itasca State Park. My trips are “introvert friendly” because everyone RESERVES THEIR OWN CAMPSITE, and so has a quiet place of retreat if they need a little alone time. Of course, extroverts are very welcome, too! I have reserved my site in the Pine Ridge Campground, …
Hiking, paddling, and more — Itasca State Park, MNView trip details »
Category: Hiking, Bicycling, Camping, Paddling, Climbing
Spring 2026 Extravaganza — Afton State Park (MN) SAVE THE DATE for the Spring /Summer Extravaganza — being held from Friday, June 12– Sunday, June 14, 2026, at Afton State Park! Everyone is invited to the Extravaganza, our semi-annual “welcome & check us out” trip for people who like the outdoors and want to find out …
SAVE THE DATE: SPRING/SUMMER EXTRAVAGANZA — Afton State Park, 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, we’ll take advantage of Juneteenth and extend our trip an extra day! It will be from Thurs. 6/18 thru Sun. 6/21. During the day we’ll hike, paddle and do other Roverish activities, and then stargaze at night, peering at …
Astronomy, Hiking, Paddling — Long Lake Conservation Center (LLCC), MNView trip details »
Join me on a weekend bike camping trip to Willow River State Park, about 7 miles north of Hudson, WI. The park has a fabulous waterfall, prairie and woodland hiking trails, a lake swimming beach and opportunities to rent kayaks or canoes to explore the lake, backwaters and Willow River channel up to the falls. …
Bike Camping — Willow River State Park, WIView trip details »
Trip FullCategory: Camping, Paddling
The Wabakimi Boreal Caribou Citizen Monitoring Project is a three year research effort that relies on volunteer citizen scientists. Qualified individual and groups are assigned a research area within the Provincial Park to survey for signs of the threatened woodland caribou. The typical survey trip involves five days of survey work, a couple days paddling …
Caribou tracking — Wabikimi Provincial Park, Ontario, CanadaView trip details »
Category: Bicycling
We are looking for a few other cyclists to do a self-contained bicycle tour of the Saguenay fjord and Lac St Jean, a Canadian veloroute a few hours northeast of Quebec City in the heart of French speaking Quebec. This tour is famous because of a unique geological feature that brings nutrients down the St …