Crosby Farm Regional Park

St. Paul, MN

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	City of St. Paul National Park Service: Find Your Park

	Overview
	At 583 acres Crosby Farm Regional Park is the largest park in the City of St. Paul park system. It sits north of the confluence of the Mississippi and Minnesota Rivers. It is near the northern end of a 22 mile continuous track of protected river corridor stretching from Cherokee Regional Park in St. Paul to Valleyfair in Shakopee. Crosby Farm Regional Park provides 6.7 miles of hiking trails through river bottomland. It contains oak forested bluffs, floodplain forest, various wetlands, and two lakes. Four native plant communities are found within its borders. It is frequently flooded in the spring. Crosby Farm Regional Park is part of the Mississippi National River and Recreation Area (MNRRA) is a 72-mile, 53,775 acre corridor along the Mississippi River. It stretches in the north from Weigh Station Highway Park on US Highway 10 in Ramsey to the Dakota County/Goodhue County border in the south. MNRRA, pronounced “minnra”, is a partnership park, a new and unique kind of national park. St. Anthony Falls Visitor Center and Coldwater Spring are the only parcels of land within the MNRRA owned by The National Park Service.

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	Location

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	Size
	583 acres

	Parking
	2595 Crosby Farm Rd. Saint Paul, MN 55116 N44 53.752, W93 10.401

	Hours
	Sunrise - 11 p.m.

	Fees
	No fee


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					Ramsey County
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	Activities

	Hiking Trails
	About 6.7 miles

	Hunting
	No hunting


	Ecology

	Ecological Classification
	Ecological Province			Eastern Broadleaf Forest Province
	Ecological Section			Minnesota & NE Iowa Morainal
	Ecological Subsection			St. Paul-Baldwin Plains and Moraines
	Land Type Association			Pig's Eye Alluvial Plain

	Native Plant Communities*
	Sedge Meadow Silver Maple - (Virginia Creeper) Floodplain Forest Spikerush - Bur Reed Marsh (Northern) Willow - Dogwood Shrub Swamp
	* Source: The Minnesota Biological Survey, Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, Division of Ecological Resources

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	Kirk Nelson

	Except for the traffic noise from the freeway; you would hardly know you are in the heart of the cities.

	Upper Lake


	Mississippi River


	Wood ducks (male and female) and female Hooded Merganser with ducklings


	A floating boardwalk links a wildlife viewing blind to the fishing pier. Lake Crosby is home to a variety of waterfowl, eagles, beavers, and muskrats.




	Crosby Farm Regional Park is also a Partner Site of the Mississippi National River and Recreation Area.



	Trails






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	West Parking Lot


	East Parking Lot


	Mapped Paved Trails




	Unmapped Natural Surface Trails


	Upper Lake


	Crosby Lake


	Mississippi River


	Silver Maple - (Virginia Creeper) Floodplain Forest


	Riverbottom Forest

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	Crosby Farm Regional Park Oddity Cache Continuum

	About Published on Sep 28, 2012 While geocaching you can discover some unusual and cool places and things. I discover something that caught my eye while hiking and geocaching out in Crosby Farm Regional Park in St Paul, MN. While there is no geocache to be found directly with where this is found, Crosby Park has several geocaches to fill out your geocaching day. Watch out for the blooper at the end! Follow us on: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CacheContinuum Facebook: https://twitter.com/CacheContinuum Google+: https://plus.google.com/106002401436315618959/ Music: Kevin Macleod - http://www.incompetech.com Main music: Josh Woodward - http://www.joshwoodward.com



	Crosby Farm Regional Park - St Paul, MN haarp35117

	About Published on Apr 20, 2014 Crosby Farms Regional Park at 736 acres is the largest natural park in the Saint Paul system of parks and it is an important component in a string of parks that protects the biodiversity of the Mississippi River corridor through the Twin Cities. The park protects mostly floodplain forest and adjacent steep, wooded slopes cloaked mostly in oak forest, a scattering of wetlands and small lakes (Crosby Lake and Upper Lake), and the Mississippi River shoreline.



	Video: Treasure Hunters brave cold to hunt for puck Pioneer Press

	About Published on Mar 7, 2013 Day two of the St. Paul Pioneer Press Treasure Hunt lured a few brave hunters to Crosby Farm Regional Park Monday, Jan. 21 on the most frigid day of the year to date. One hunter describes his plan for finding the medallion -- and staying warm.



	The Cave of Crosby Regional Park Cache Continuum

	About Published on Oct 19, 2012 While we do try to show us going caching, this was discovered while geocaching around Crosby Regional Park in St Paul, Minnesota. It was just tool cool to not see this cave on video. Video of cache mentioned: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkd4B9WyLUA Follow us on: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CacheContinuum Facebook: https://twitter.com/CacheContinuum Google+: https://plus.google.com/106002401436315618959/ Intro music: Kevin Macleod - http://www.incompetech.com Additional music: Dan-O at http://DanoSongs.com



	Crosby Lake Regional Park Part 1 kydaru

	About Uploaded on Jun 17, 2010 Me walking around Crosby Lake Regional Park in St Paul, MN

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Visits
7/25/2016

Amphibians

green frog (Rana clamitans)

northern leopard frog (Rana pipiens)

Birds


Two bird species with conservation status in Minnesota have been seen here:
Endangered	Horned Grebe (Podiceps auritus)
Threatened	Common Tern (Sterna hirundo)
Special Concern