State Waysides
The state park system includes eight waysides, most of them along Minnesota State Highway 61 on the North Shore. These are parcels of land too small to be full-fledged parks, but with cultural or natural resources greater than would be overseen by the Minnesota Department of Transportation as highway waysides. Generally development is limited to a parking area and a short trail; sometimes there are sanitation facilities and picnic tables as well.
| Wayside name | County | Date estab- lished |
Coordinates | Remarks | Image |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Caribou Falls State Wayside | Lake | 1947 | 47°27′52″N 91°01′51″W / 47.46452°N 91.03084°W / 47.46452; -91.03084 (Caribou Falls State Wayside) | Includes a waterfall on the Caribou River. Formerly Caribou Falls State Park. | |
| Devils Track Falls State Wayside | Cook | 1961 | 47°46′41″N 90°16′58″W / 47.77804°N 90.28273°W / 47.77804; -90.28273 (Devils Track Falls State Wayside) | A nearly inaccessible gorge on the Devil Track River within Superior National Forest. Formerly Devils Track Falls State Park. | |
| Flood Bay State Wayside | Lake | 1965 | 47°02′19″N 91°38′33″W / 47.03850°N 91.64254°W / 47.03850; -91.64254 (Flood Bay State Wayside) | A rocky Lake Superior beach just outside Two Harbors. | |
| Inspiration Peak State Wayside | Otter Tail | 1931 | 46°08′14″N 95°34′41″W / 46.13714°N 95.57809°W / 46.13714; -95.57809 (Inspiration Peak State Wayside) | The highest point of the Leaf Hills Moraines. | |
| Joseph R. Brown State Wayside | Renville | 1937 | 44°45′01″N 95°19′28″W / 44.750328°N 95.324425°W / 44.750328; -95.324425 (Joseph R. Brown State Wayside) | The ruins of Joseph R. Brown's three-story mansion, destroyed during the Dakota War of 1862. The ruins are on the NRHP. | |
| Kodonce River State Wayside | Cook | 1947 | 47°47′38″N 90°09′15″W / 47.79393°N 90.15414°W / 47.79393; -90.15414 (Kodonce River State Wayside) | Lake Superior shoreline around the mouth of the variably spelled Kadunce River. Formerly Kodonce River State Park. | |
| Ray Berglund State Wayside | Cook | 1951 | 47°36′32″N 90°46′10″W / 47.60894°N 90.76943°W / 47.60894; -90.76943 (Ray Berglund State Wayside) | A memorial at the mouth of the Onion River to a St. Paul businessman and conservationist, on land donated by his friends. | |
| Sam Brown State Wayside | Traverse | 1929 | 45°35′46″N 96°50′29″W / 45.59616°N 96.84141°W / 45.59616; -96.84141 (Sam Brown State Wayside) | Created to honor Joseph R. Brown's son Samuel J. Brown, "the Paul Revere of the West," who rode 120 miles (190 km) through a storm on April 19, 1866 to warn of an expected Dakota attack. Formerly Sam Brown State Park. |
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