How Many Minnesota National Parks Are There?How many Minnesota National Parks are there? Just 1...Voyageurs National Park. Located 300 miles north of Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota. This US National Park is right between the state of Minnesota and Ontario, Canada. A land that gets really cold in the the winter. Snow blankets this place from December to March. But this US National Park is open year around. In the winter you can snowmobile, snowshoe, cross country ski and try your hand at ice fishing! In the summer months you can hike, camp, canoe, kayak, boat and fish. Voyageurs National Park from Raymond Klass on Vimeo. There is just over 218,000 acres of national park here. 84,000 of the acres are covered in water! There are four major lakes here. Lake Kabetogama is 15 miles long. Lake Namakan is 16 miles long. Rainy Lake is 60 miles long and Sand Point Lake is 8 miles long. Combined, these four lakes make up 40% of Voyageurs National Park.
Besides the four lakes, there are 26 smaller interior lakes waiting to be explored. Surrounding all of this is more than 500 islands. Islands with rugged cliffs, swamps, forests, sandy beaches, bays and sea coves. This Minnesota National Park is remote, peaceful and very beautiful. The land that makes up this national park is the Kabetogama Peninsula. The only way to get here is by a waterway. There are over 200 campsites if you like to camp. There is one place to stay if your not wanting to camp, and that is the historic Kettle Fall Hotel. It is open from mid May through September. If you do not want to stay on the Kabetogama Penisula, then International Falls is the closest city. Millions of years ago, there was an ocean where this Minnesota National Park sits. Underwater volcanoes errupted and created this land mass. The sea level dropped and land took the place of the ocean. Moving ice glaciers smoothed out the rocks and made way for lakes. The wildlife here consists of wolves, moose, birds, bears, beavers, deer, fish and turtles live here. There is 50 miles of hiking trails for those who like to hike and backpack. Because of the water, bring repellent to keep the mosquitoes away. Mosquitoes are quite thick from May through August. This national park has a great variety of berries for you to pick and eat! That's right. You will find wild strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, cranberries, blackberries and chokecherries here. Each person is allowed to pick up to a gallon a day! This is an especially beautiful place for those of us who like to fish. Walley, northern pike, muskellunge, smallmouth bass, largemouth bass, crappie, trout, blue gill and yellow pirch are in abundance here. The tops of the lakes freeze at least 3 feet deep every winter. Ice fishing is a fun thing to do in the winter months. Late November to early May are the months that the lakes are frozen. Minnesota Voyageur National Park Lodging Voyageurs National Park Weather Voyageurs National Park Map Use a map to navigate through the 344 square miles of waterways and if you decide to go hiking.
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