{"id":1617,"date":"2022-06-23T08:21:23","date_gmt":"2022-06-23T14:21:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/?p=1617"},"modified":"2022-06-23T08:21:23","modified_gmt":"2022-06-23T14:21:23","slug":"apple-blossom-overlook-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/?p=1617","title":{"rendered":"Apple Blossom Overlook Park"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Apple_Blossom_Overlook_Park_06.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Apple_Blossom_Overlook_Park_06.jpg\" alt=\"Apple Blossom Overlook Park\" class=\"wp-image-1618\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Apple_Blossom_Overlook_Park_06.jpg 960w, https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Apple_Blossom_Overlook_Park_06-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Apple_Blossom_Overlook_Park_06-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Apple_Blossom_Overlook_Park_06-624x416.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Photo by Greg Watson<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Apple Blossom Overlook Park is a Winona County park located three miles north of downtown La Crescent, MN on Apple Blossom Drive Scenic Byway. Its 55 acres includes a ridge top overlooking the Upper Mississippi River Valley 580 feet below. A 1.3 mile loop trail has a spur that leads to a spectacular overlook on a narrow promontory. The trail is wide, grassy, and well maintained. It passes through new and old growth hardwood forest, two newly established prairies, and a few small areas of remnant prairie, and by rock outcroppings, steep cliffs, and an historic stone quarry. The park also includes a small depression that is sometimes a small pond but at other times just a wetland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.minnesotaseasons.com\/Destinations\/Apple_Blossom_Overlook_Park.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">http:\/\/www.minnesotaseasons.com\/Destinations\/Apple_Blossom_Overlook_Park.html<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fcbkbttn_like \"><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/?p=1617\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\" layout=\"button_count\"  size=\"small\"><\/fb:like><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple Blossom Overlook Park is a Winona County park located three miles north of downtown La Crescent, MN on Apple Blossom Drive Scenic Byway. Its 55 acres includes a ridge top overlooking the Upper Mississippi River Valley 580 feet below. A 1.3 mile loop trail has a spur that leads to a spectacular overlook on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[705],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1617"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1617"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1619,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1617\/revisions\/1619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}