{"id":815,"date":"2016-04-24T17:14:55","date_gmt":"2016-04-24T23:14:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/?p=815"},"modified":"2016-04-24T17:14:55","modified_gmt":"2016-04-24T23:14:55","slug":"woodland-trails-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/?p=815","title":{"rendered":"Woodland Trails Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Woodland_Trails_Park_06.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-816\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-816\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Woodland_Trails_Park_06.jpg\" alt=\"Woodland Trails Park\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Woodland_Trails_Park_06.jpg 720w, https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Woodland_Trails_Park_06-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Woodland_Trails_Park_06-624x416.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The City of Elk River describes Woodland Trails Park as \u201ccrown jewel of the Elk River Park system\u201d. That may make it sound like a big fish in a little pond, but that phrase would not do it justice. This 371-acre park has two native plant communities, about 10 miles of hiking trails, and a biathlon range. The trails are wide and well marked, including distance markers every kilometer.<\/p>\n<p>Woodland Trails Park preserves an area of low hills and swales formed by the advance of the Wisconsin glaciation about 12,000 years ago. Today, the area is mostly covered in a oak-maple woodland. A small black ash swamp occupies a low area to the west.<\/p>\n<p>Visitors this weekend (4\/24\/2016) will find rue anemone peaking throughout the park.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/minnesotaseasons.com\/Destinations\/Woodland_Trails_Park.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/minnesotaseasons.com\/Destinations\/Woodland_Trails_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=815\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\" layout=\"button_count\"  size=\"small\"><\/fb:like><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The City of Elk River describes Woodland Trails Park as \u201ccrown jewel of the Elk River Park system\u201d. That may make it sound like a big fish in a little pond, but that phrase would not do it justice. This 371-acre park has two native plant communities, about 10 miles of hiking trails, and a [&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":[328],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815"}],"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=815"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":817,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815\/revisions\/817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}