{"id":495,"date":"2015-06-14T16:25:23","date_gmt":"2015-06-14T22:25:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/?p=495"},"modified":"2015-06-14T16:26:07","modified_gmt":"2015-06-14T22:26:07","slug":"st-croix-state-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/?p=495","title":{"rendered":"St. Croix State Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/St_Croix_State_Park_12.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-496\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/St_Croix_State_Park_12-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"St. Croix State Park\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/St_Croix_State_Park_12-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/St_Croix_State_Park_12-624x416.jpg 624w, https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/St_Croix_State_Park_12.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In 1943 the 18,000-acre St. Croix Recreational Demonstration Area became Minnesota\u2019s twenty-fourth state park. Additional land acquisitions have since made St. Croix State Park Minnesota\u2019s largest state park, with over 34,000 acres. There are 127 miles of hiking trails, though most of those are shared with horseback riders. Most of the park is oak woodland, but closer inspection shows it to be a mosaic of 27 different native plant communities, including a rare jack pine barrens. Fourteen plant species with protected status in Minnesota are found here, including butternut, American ginseng, and Hill\u2019s thistle.<\/p>\n<p>Visitors to the park this week (June 14 to 20) will see Canada mayflower and Allegheny blackberry at their peak, as well as many white admiral and silvery checkerspot butterflies.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/minnesotaseasons.com\/Destinations\/St_Croix_State_Park.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/minnesotaseasons.com\/Destinations\/St_Croix_State_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=495\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\" layout=\"button_count\"  size=\"small\"><\/fb:like><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1943 the 18,000-acre St. Croix Recreational Demonstration Area became Minnesota\u2019s twenty-fourth state park. Additional land acquisitions have since made St. Croix State Park Minnesota\u2019s largest state park, with over 34,000 acres. There are 127 miles of hiking trails, though most of those are shared with horseback riders. Most of the park is oak woodland, [&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":[172],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495"}],"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=495"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":497,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495\/revisions\/497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}