Gooseberry Falls event: Let’s Get Knotty
June 29, 2025 @ 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm – Gooseberry Falls event: Let’s Get Knotty :: Knot-tying is a useful skill, and it can be a lot of fun too! From tying your tent to a stake, a hook on your line, or a canoe on your car, knowing how to tie different kinds of knots prepares you for all different kinds of situations […]
Gooseberry Falls event: Let’s Get Knotty
July 1, 2025 @ 11:00 am – 12:00 pm – Gooseberry Falls event: Let’s Get Knotty :: Learn how to tie the three most used, basic knots in the outdoors: bowline, truckers hitch, and figure 8 follow-through. Come to Lakeview Picnic Shelter, will be inside if raining. Feel free to come and go as you please.
Gooseberry Falls event: Summer Birding Hike
July 3, 2025 @ 7:00 am – 8:30 am – Gooseberry Falls event: Summer Birding Hike – Join Park Naturalist on the River View trail (approximately 1 mile one way from the visitor center) which offers beautiful views of birch and aspen bluffs around the Gooseberry River, Mouth of the Gooseberry River and Lake Superior where many birds hunt fish or eat aquatic vegetation. This […]
Artist Reception Elliot Crompton
July 11, 2025 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm – Artist Reception Elliot Crompton – Tettegouche hosts year-round art shows in the Visitor Center. We hold a reception for these artists on the first Friday of the month. This month’s artist is Elliot Crompton. Please join us for a reception with the artist. learn more about Tettegouche State Park
Tettegouche event – Primitive Fire Starting
July 12, 2025 @ 10:00 am – 12:00 pm – Tettegouche event – Primitive Fire Starting Without matches, lighters, or other modern tools, most of us would be in big trouble if we needed a fire. Learn traditional and historic fire starting technologies and try them out. We’ll be playing with flint-and-steel, bow drills, magnifiers, and other techniques including the use of native mushrooms and […]
Wild Edibles at Tettegouche State Park
July 12, 2025 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm – Wild Edibles at Tettegouche State Park – Whether for fun or for survival, knowing what wild things are edible is a great skill to have. We’ll cover a wide variety of wild foods that can be gleaned for free, and touch on what can or cannot be picked in a State Park. What are your […]
Ask a Naturalist Tettegouche State Park
July 13, 2025 @ 10:00 am – 12:00 pm – Ask a Naturalist Tettegouche State Park – Have you got a photo of something interesting, but are not sure of what it is? A burning question about the natural world? A fun story to share? The Naturalist will be available for questions in the Visitor Center.
Construction Workers of the North at Tettegouche State Park
July 13, 2025 @ 12:45 pm – 3:00 pm – Construction Workers of the North at Tettegouche State Park – Humans are not the only ones who build for a living, in fact many animals construct and shape the world around us. One of which is the beaver! Known as ecosystem engineers, beavers drastically mold the natural world into what we see and enjoy today. […]
Split Rock Lighthouse event: Fern Hike to Day Hill
July 18, 2025 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm – Split Rock Lighthouse event: Fern Hike to Day Hill. Join a park naturalist on a hike to Day Hill while learning about ferns! Ferns are ancient relatives that grow in a variety of conditions, including lava rock of the North Shore. Enjoy the vista of Lake Superior on this hiking club trail. Meet at Pebble […]
Gooseberry Falls event: Paint the Night Sky
July 18, 2025 @ 7:30 pm – 8:30 pm – Gooseberry Falls event: Paint the Night Sky – Come to Lady Slipper Lodge to celebrate our dark night sky. Before our special program at 8:30, we will be painting a night sky landscape. All supplies provided! program supplies limited to 30 painters
Gooseberry Falls event: Universe in the Park
July 18, 2025 @ 8:30 pm – 10:30 pm – Universe in the Park is a summer outreach program hosted by the Minnesota Institute for Astrophysics and area state and local parks. At our events, graduate students of the Institute will present about a topic of their choice in Lady Slipper Lodge. Presentations cover a variety of astronomical topics such as: the history of matter, […]
Gooseberry Falls event – Fern Walk
July 19, 2025 @ 11:00 am – 12:00 pm – Gooseberry Falls event – Fern Walk :: Walk with a Naturalist to observe and study some of the oldest plants on earth dating back to over 300 million years ago. Learn how fern reproduction is unique compared to other plants. Walk will be about a mile on moderately even terrain. Come prepared with good walking […]
Tettegouche event: Universe in the Park
July 19, 2025 @ 8:30 pm – 10:30 pm – Tettegouche event: Universe in the Park is a summer outreach program hosted by the Minnesota Institute for Astrophysics and area state and local parks. At our events, graduate students of the Institute will present about a topic of their choice in Lady Slipper Lodge. Presentations cover a variety of astronomical topics such as: the history […]
Gooseberry Falls event A Bird’s Diet
July 23, 2025 @ 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm – Gooseberry Falls event A Bird’s Diet – Stop by the nature cart to play fun matching games while learning about different birds’ diets and how they use their specialized beaks to eat. Outside on the East side of the visitor center. Indoors in the interpretive center if raining.
Bobs Stairs Guided Hike at Split Rock Lighthouse State Park
July 26, 2025 @ 9:30 am – 10:45 am – Bobs Stairs Guided Hike at Split Rock Lighthouse State Park Enjoy a guided hike with a park naturalist down a wooden staircase to a beautiful cove on Lake Superior. The hike takes visitors along the Little Two Harbors trail, through boulders of anorthosite, to view Lake Superior from a superb angle. The route is less […]
