Elm Creek Park Reserve

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Area and County

Hennepin County

 

 

 


Size

4,900 acres

 
 
Maps

Three Rivers Park District Summer Map

 
Park Entrance

N45 8.516, W93 25.590

 
Parking

N45 9.292, W93 26.985

 
Hiking Trails

Unpaved hiking: 5 mi.
Unpaved hiking/horse: 20.8 mi.
Unpaved hiking/mountain bike: 7.7 mi.
Unpaved hiking/horse/bike: 7.7 mi.
Paved hiking/bike/dog: 20 mi.

The paved Medicine Lake Regional Trail and Rush Creek Regional Trail connect to the paved trails in this park.

 
Hunting

No hunting


Ecological Classification

Province

Eastern Broadleaf Forest Province

Ecological Classification

Section

Minnesota & NE Iowa Morainal

Subsection(s)

Anoka Sand Plain
Big Woods

Land Type Association(s)

Maple Plain Moraine

Mississippi Sand Plain

 
Native Plant Communities1

Black Ash - Yellow Birch - Red Maple - Alder Swamp (Eastcentral)

Elm - Basswood - Black Ash - (Hackberry) Forest

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

Sedge Meadow

Seepage Meadow/Carr

Southern Mesic Maple-Basswood Forest

Sugar Maple - Basswood - (Bitternut Hickory) Forest

Sugar Maple Forest (Big Woods)

Tamarack Swamp (Southern)

Willow - Dogwood Shrub Swamp


Ownership

 
Links

Three Rivers Park District


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Visitor Observations

   

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MinnesotaSeasons.com Observations

   

Amphibians

 

 
 

American toad (Bufo americanus)

American toad

Birds

 

 
 

American Black Duck (Anas rubripes)

American Robin (Turdus migratorius)

Black-capped Chickadee (Poecile atricapillus)

Blue Jay (Cyanocitta cristata)

Blue-winged Teal (Anas discors)

Brown Thrasher (Toxostoma rufum)

Canada Goose (Branta canadensis)

Eastern Kingbird (Tyrannus tyrannus)

Gray Catbird (Dumetella carolinensis)

Great Blue Heron (Ardea herodias)

Killdeer (Charadrius vociferus)

Northern Cardinal (Cardinalis cardinalis)

Black-capped Chickadee

 

 

 

 

Canada Goose

 

 

 

 

Northern Cardinal

 

 

 

 


Fungi

 

 
 

Artist’s Conk (Ganoderma applanatum)

Fried Chicken Mushroom (Lyophyllum decastes)

White Jelly Fungus (Ductifera pululahuana)

Artist’s Conk

Insects and Arachnids

 

 
 

Carolina grasshopper (Dissosteira carolina)

clouded sulphur (Colias philodice)

eastern daddy-long-legs (Phalangium opilio)

eastern tiger swallowtail (Papilio glaucus)

goldenrod soldier beetle (Chauliognathus pennsylvanicus)

monarch (Danaus plexippus)

mustard white (Pieris oleracea)

white-faced meadowhawk (Sympetrum obtrusum)

eastern tiger swallowtail

 

 

 

 

white-faced meadowhawk

 


Mammals

 

 
 

American red squirrel (Tamiasciurus hudsonicus)

Canadian beaver (Castor canadensis canadensis)

eastern gray squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis)

Canadian beaver

Plants

University of Minnesota Herbarium Plant List


Plants frequently found in:

Black Ash - Yellow Birch - Red Maple - Alder Swamp (Eastcentral) WFn64b

Elm - Basswood - Black Ash - (Hackberry) Forest MHs49a

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

Sedge Meadow WMn82b

Seepage Meadow/Carr WMs83a1

Southern Mesic Maple-Basswood Forest MHs39

Sugar Maple - Basswood - (Bitternut Hickory) Forest MHs39a

Sugar Maple Forest (Big Woods) MHs39c

Tamarack Swamp (Southern) FPs63a

Willow - Dogwood Shrub Swamp WMn82a

 
 

absinth wormwood (Artemisia absinthium)

alfalfa (Medicago sativa ssp. sativa)

alsike clover (Trifolium hybridum)

American basswood (Tilia americana)

American bladdernut (Staphylea trifolia)

American bugleweed (Lycopus americanus)

American elm (Ulmus americana)

American hazel (Corylus americana)

American highbush cranberry (Viburnum opulus var. americanum)

American hog peanut (Amphicarpaea bracteata)

American plum (Prunus americana)

American stickseed (Hackelia deflexa var. americana)

big bluestem (Andropogon gerardii)

bird’s-foot trefoil (Lotus corniculatus var. corniculatus)

bittersweet nightshade (Solanum dulcamara)

black-eyed Susan (Rudbeckia hirta)

black-seeded plantain (Plantago rugelii var. rugelii)

black ash (Fraxinus nigra)

black cherry (Prunus serotina var. serotina)

black maple (Acer saccharum ssp. nigrum)

black medick (Medicago lupulina)

bloodroot (Sanguinaria canadensis)

blue giant hyssop (Agastache foeniculum)

blue skullcap (Scutellaria lateriflora var. lateriflora)

blue vervain (Verbena hastata)

boxelder (Acer negundo)

bristly greenbrier (Smilax tamnoides)

broad-leaved cattail (Typha latifolia)

bulbet-bearing water hemlock (Cicuta bulbifera)

bull thistle (Cirsium vulgare)

bur oak (Quercus macrocarpa var. macrocarpa)

butter and eggs (Linaria vulgaris)

butternut (Juglans cinerea)

Canada goldenrod (Solidago canadensis)

Canada moonseed (Menispermum canadense)

Canada thistle (Cirsium arvense)

Canadian horseweed (Conyza canadensis)

Canadian tick-trefoil (Desmodium canadense)

Canadian woodnettle (Laportea canadensis)

chokecherry (Prunus virginiana var. virginiana)

cleavers (Galium aparine)

common boneset (Eupatorium perfoliatum var. perfoliatum)

common buckthorn (Rhamnus cathartica)

common burdock (Arctium minus)

common dandelion (Taraxacum officinale ssp. officinale)

common evening primrose (Oenothera biennis)

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

common lamb’s-quarters (Chenopodium album)

common milkweed (Asclepias syriaca)

common motherwort (Leonurus cardiaca)

common mullein (Verbascum thapsus ssp. thapsus)

common plantain (Plantago major)

common ragweed (Ambrosia artemisiifolia)

common snowberry (Symphoricarpos albus var. albus)

common sunflower (Helianthus annuus)

creeping bellflower (Campanula rapunculoides)

crown vetch (Securigera varia)

Culver’s root (Veronicastrum virginicum)

cup plant (Silphium perfoliatum var. perfoliatum)

curly dock (Rumex crispus)

cut-leaved coneflower (Rudbeckia laciniata var. laciniata)

downy gentian (Gentiana puberulenta)

eastern bottlebrush grass (Elymus hystrix)

eastern redcedar (Juniperus virginiana var. virginiana)

false sunflower (Heliopsis helianthoides var. occidentalis)

field bindweed (Convolvulus arvensis)

field sow thistle (Sonchus arvensis)

fragrant bedstraw (Galium triflorum)

garlic mustard (Alliaria petiolata)

giant foxtail (Setaria faberi)

giant ragweed (Ambrosia trifida var. trifida)

gray-headed coneflower (Ratibida pinnata)

gray dogwood (Cornus racemosa)

grayleaf red raspberry (Rubus idaeus ssp. strigosus)

green ash (Fraxinus pennsylvanica)

green foxtail (Setaria viridis)

ground ivy (Glechoma hederacea)

hairy-stem gooseberry (Ribes hirtellum)

heal-all (Prunella vulgaris)

hoary alyssum (Berteroa incana)

hoary vervain (Verbena stricta)

Indiangrass (Sorghastrum nutans)

ironwood (Ostrya virginiana var. virginiana)

Jack-in-the-pulpit (Arisaema triphyllum)

large-flowered bellwort (Uvularia grandiflora)

leadplant (Amorpha canescens)

Missouri gooseberry (Ribes missouriense)

mouse-ear chickweed (Cerastium fontanum ssp. vulgare)

nannyberry (Viburnum lentago)

narrow-leaved purple coneflower (Echinacea angustifolia var. angustifolia)

northern hackberry (Celtis occidentalis)

northern pin oak (Quercus ellipsoidalis)

northern plains blazing star (Liatris ligulistylis)

northern prickly ash (Zanthoxylum americanum)

northern red oak (Quercus rubra var. rubra)

ostrich fern (Matteuccia struthiopteris var. pensylvanica)

oxeye daisy (Leucanthemum vulgare)

pagoda dogwood (Cornus alternifolia)

pale smartweed (Persicaria lapathifolia)

pale touch-me-not (Impatiens pallida)

paradise apple (Malus pumila)

plains cottonwood (Populus deltoides ssp. molinifera)

prairie fleabane (Erigeron strigosus)

prairie ironweed (Vernonia fasciculata ssp. fasciculata)

purple prairie clover (Dalea purpurea var. purpurea)

quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides)

Queen Anne’s lace (Daucus carota ssp. carota)

red baneberry (Actaea rubra ssp. rubra)

red clover (Trifolium pratense)

red maple (Acer rubrum var. rubrum)

red osier dogwood (Cornus sericea ssp. sericea)

red sorrel (Rumex acetosella)

rough blazing star (Liatris aspera)

rough-fruited cinquefoil (Potentilla recta)

round-headed bush clover (Lespedeza capitata)

scouring rush horsetail (Equisetum hyemale var. affine)

silky dogwood (Cornus obliqua)

silver maple (Acer saccharinum)

silvery cinquefoil (Potentilla argentea)

slippery elm (Ulmus rubra)

smooth blue aster (Symphyotrichum laeve)

smooth hedge nettle (Stachys tenuifolia)

smooth rose (Rosa blanda var. blanda)

smooth sumac (Rhus glabra)

southern arrowwood (Viburnum dentatum var. lucidum)

spotted Joe Pye weed (Eutrochium maculatum)

spotted lady’s thumb (Persicaria maculosa)

spotted touch-me-not (Impatiens capensis)

spreading dogbane (Apocynum androsaemifolium)

staghorn sumac (Rhus typhina)

stiff goldenrod (Solidago rigida ssp. rigida)

stinging nettle (Urtica dioica ssp. gracilis)

sugar maple (Acer saccharum ssp. saccharum)

tall thimbleweed (Anemone virginiana)

Tartarian honeysuckle (Lonicera tatarica)

timothy (Phleum pratense)

velvet-leaf (Abutilon theophrasti)

Virginia creeper (Parthenocissus quinquefolia)

Virginia mountain mint (Pycnanthemum virginianum)

white baneberry (Actaea pachypoda)

white campion (Silene latifolia ssp. alba)

white clover (Trifolium repens)

white oak (Quercus alba)

white prairie clover (Dalea candida)

white snakeroot (Ageratina altissima var. altissima)

wild bergamot (Monarda fistulosa)

wild cucumber (Echinocystis lobata)

wild ginger (Asarum canadense)

wild grape (Vitis riparia)

wild mint (Mentha arvensis)

woodbine (Parthenocissus vitacea)

yellow foxtail (Setaria pumila ssp. pumila)

yellow goat’s beard (Tragopogon dubius)

yellow wood sorrel (Oxalis stricta)

alsike clover

 

 

 

 

American bladdernut

 

 

 

 

American highbush cranberry

 

 

 

 

American plum

 

 

 

 

black cherry

 

 

 

 

black-eyed susan

 

 

 

 

black-eyed susan

 

 

 

 

butter and eggs

 

 

 

 

Canada goldenrod

 

 

 

 

Canadian tick-trefoil

 

 

 

 

Canadian woodnettle

 

 

 

 

chokecherry

 

 

 

 

common evening primrose

 

 

 

 

common mullein

 

 

 

 

common sunflower

 

 

 

 

creeping bellflower

 

 

 

 

cut-leaved coneflower

 

 

 

 

downy gentian

 

 

 

 

false sunflower

 

 

 

 

field sow thistle

 

 

 

 

garlic mustard

 

 

 

 

hoary alyssum

 

 

 

 

leadplant

 

 

 

 

narrow-leaved purple coneflower

 

 

 

 

oxeye daisy

 

 

 

 

pale smartweed

 

 

 

 

prairie ironweed

 

 

 

 

purple prairie clover

 

 

 

 

red baneberry

 

 

 

 

rough-fruited cinquefoil

 

 

 

 

round-headed bush clover

 

 

 

 

silvery cinquefoil

 

 

 

 

smooth sumac

 

 

 

 

spotted Joe Pye weed

 

 

 

 

stiff goldenrod

 

 

 

 

Virginia mountain mint

 

 

 

 

white baneberry

 

 

 

 

white prairie clover

 

 

 

 

wild bergamot

 

 

 

 

wild ginger

 

 

 

 

yellow wood sorrel

 

 

 

 


Visits

8/13/2009

   

 

Driving Directions

 

 

 

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