SIBLEY FACILITIES WINTER TRAILS Boat Landing STATE PARK Cross-Country Ski Ski Trail Levels of Difficulty Information/Office Picnic Area Skate Ski easy Interpretive/TrailCenter Shelter more difficult Overlook NORTH Snowmobile most difficult Parking PRIVATE PROPERTY 0 0.5 1.0 Miles Walking Trail FACILITIES AND one-way trail Public Use Prohibited Trail distances are shown in miles. Telephone (except on designated trails) FEATURES two-way trail Campground • 132 semi-modern campsites 5 0K0.5 1.0 ilometers (53 with electricity) • 4 Camper cabins • Dump station, flush toilets and showers 9 •Modern group center (capacity 128)–reservations required 48 •3 primitive group camp sites (capacity 20, 30, 50 each)

• Horseback riders camp 0.9 mi. 9 (9 campsites) 0.4 mi. •Picnic area with 70 tables and Mt. Tom an open shelter (capacity 0.15 mi. 100)

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•2.5 miles of skate-ski trail (see detail map) .3 0 1.7 mi. 48 LOOKING FOR MORE INFORMATION? The DNR has mapped the state showing federal, 5 state and county lands with their recreational facilities. Public Recreation Information Maps (PRIM) are Because lands exist within the boundaries of this park available for purchase from the DNR gift shop, DNR that are not under the jurisdiction of the DNR, check with regional offices, state parks and major the park manager if you plan to use facilities such as trails Bibl e Camp sporting and map stores. or roads other than those shown. Check it out - you'll be glad you did.

© 3/2008 by State of Minnesota, Department of Natural Resources Come; Kandi meaning buffalo-fish and ohi meaning in. The name refers to the abundance of fish found SIBLEY STATE 118 in the area lakes. 120 65e NORTH PARK 18e 17e 55e 34e 16e Oak Ridge 123 116 Mount Tom, which rises to an elevation of 1375 feet 66 117 56e 121 119 above sea level, is one of the highest points for fifty 35e 15e 64 115 14e 122 114 miles. It affords an excellent view of surrounding 20 19e 124 13e 63e 67 106 forest, prairie knolls, lakes and farmlands. 62 68 108 113 Duluth 37 12e 125 104 • 127 112 21e 54e 52e 107 110 11e 60 69 GEOLOGY: Four times in the history of Minnesota, 36e 22 10e 105 38e 128 102 92 91 109 SIBLEY glaciers advanced from the north, covering the state 53e 70 111 STATE PARK 23e 61e 71e with a sheet of ice up to two-miles thick. During the 24e 9e 126 103 25e 72 last of these advances, as recently as 10,000 years 8e 93 39e 130 101 90 89 51 59e 129 94 Minneapolis/ • ago, most of the features of the Minnesota landscape 7 50e St. Paul were formed. 26e 27e 88 6e 58e 100 95 40e 49 48e 132 86 Sibley State Park is in the part of the Alexandria 5 96 28e 29e 73 Restrooms Moraine Complex formed by the Wadena Lobe which 4e 131 99 87 41e 47e 46 57 was later overrun by the Grantsburg-Des Moines 3e Restroom/Showers 30e 74 85 31e WALLEYE 84 Lobe.The rocks, sand, and gravel left by the last 44 97 2e Shelter glacier make up the drift which formed Mount Tom 42e 45e SIBLEY 1e to Park Office 32e Trailer Sanitation Station and the rest of the landscape.These deposits, as deep 33e MONARCH 83 as 450 feet, are some of the deepest found anywhere 98 82 STATE PARK 43e Parking in the state. 81 LOON Fish Cleaning FOR MORE INFORMATION 75 80 Many of the 194 lakes in Kandiyohi County are ice- Handicap Sites Sibley State Park block lakes.These are steep-sided lakes formed by 76 800 Sibley Park Road N.E. the melting of a large block of ice which was com- SIBLEY STATE PARK LADY’S SLIPPER 79 Camper Cabins pletely or partially buried by glacial till. Lake Andrew 77 New London, MN 56273-9664 Lakeview Campground Drinking Water (320) 354-2055 and others like it in the county are another type of 78 ♦ glacial lake formed in a depression as the ice passed Underlined site numbers Toilet over the land and then melted. © 3/2008 by State of Minnesota, Department of Natural Resources Department of Natural Resources are RESERVABLE e Electric sites Information Center HISTORY: People of many races have used the hill 500 Lafayette Road we now call Mount Tom as a viewpoint for both St. Paul, MN 55155-4040 strategic and inspirational purposes. Fragments of fires burned across the grasslands of Minnesota, INTERPRETIVE PROGRAM: Have you ever visited a lowed only on park roads, not on trails. stone pipes found there suggest that, like most high preventing forest from becoming established. Pro- state park and wanted to know more about its plants, • Enjoy park wildlife and plants, but please respect (651) 296-6157 (Metro Area) places, it may have held spiritual significance to the tected somewhat from fire by the lakes to the south, animals, legends and lore? Sibley State Park offers them. Do not pick or dig up plants, disturb or feed 1-888-646-6367 (MN Toll Free) Dakota Indians. oak savanna–a mixture of oak and prairie became a year-round interpretive program where you and animals, or scavenge dead wood. the main vegetative cover of the area. Through sup- your family can experience nature as it changes • Build fires only in designated locations, fire rings TTY (Telecommunications Peter Broberg, the only member of his family to pression of fire, the forest became the predominant through the seasons. Information concerning hikes, or fireplaces. Portable stoves or grills are permitted. Device for Deaf) survive the Dakota War of 1862, along with many vegetative cover and is dominated by oak, ironwood, videos, powerpoint presentations and other activities • Daily or annual permits are required for all vehi- (651) 296-5484 (Metro Area) other local residents appreciated what nature had to basswood, hackberry, green ash, and aspen. Only on can be found on park bulletin boards, at the contact cles entering a state park. They may be purchased 1-800-657-3929 (MN Toll Free) offer in the Mount Tom and Lake Andrew area. In the knolls which were unsuitable for farming and station, and in the interpretive center. at the park headquarters or the Information Cen- 1919 they were successful in getting the state legis- too dry for the forest do we see remnants of short ter in St. Paul (see “FOR MORE INFORMATION” DNR web site: www.dnr.state.mn.us lature to provide money to purchase the land which grass prairie. In an attempt to perpetuate these grass- Come experience the sights and sounds of Sibley! to left). would become Sibley State Park. lands, some fields which had been cleared and farmed State Parks page: www.mnstateparks.info by the settlers have now been restored to native SO EVERYONE CAN ENJOY THE PARK... ♦ From 1919 to 1934, the county was responsible for prairie grasses. • The park belongs to all Minnesotans. Please treat Sibley State Park is located in Kandiyohi County in maintaining the park, though little development was it with respect and help us to protect it by following This information is available in west central Minnesota four miles west of New done. Realizing that this area was a popular spot for Most of the wildlife in the park are species that forests the rules. alternative format upon request. London and fifteen miles north of Willmar. The main more than just local people, the legislature authorized support; white-tailed deer, red and , • The park is open year-round. On a daily basis, entrance to the park is on U.S. Highway 71. Minnesota Sibley a state park in 1934. and . Shrews, bats, mice, ground squir- the park gate is closed from 10:00 P.M. to 8:00 “Equal opportunity to participate in and benefit from pro- grams of the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources state highway map index: F-15. rels, red and gray squirrels, mink, bluebirds, scarlet A.M. the following morning except to registered In 1935 the federal government sent the Veterans tanagers, and cardinals are a few other species visitors is available to all individuals regardless of race, color, creed campers. or religion, national origin, sex, marital status, status with , Minnesota’s first governor, Conservation Corps to Sibley. For the next three can expect to see as they hike the trails of Sibley. In •Camp only in designated locations. regard to public assistance, sexual orientation, age or dis- used the woods of Kandiyohi as his hunting years, this group of up to two hundred men built the marsh you may see muskrats, beaver, mallards, • The use of firearms, explosives, air guns, slingshots, ability. Discrimination inquires should be sent to the Minnesota roads, buildings, and trails within the park. When bluewinged teal, and wood ducks swimming or traps, seines, nets, bows and arrows and all other Department of Natural Resources, 500 grounds.This wooded, hilly 3,015-acre park that bears Minnesota the V.C.C. camp was finished, they left behind watch the blue herons or egrets as they elegantly weapons is prohibited in state parks. Lafayette Road, St. Paul, MN 55155-4031; or his name is located in an area where the grasslands of the Equal Opportunity Office, Department of the west meet the Big Woods of the east. $700,000 worth of granite buildings and a beautiful stalk their prey. Overhead you may watch the red- • Pets must be restrained on a leash no longer than the Interior, Washington, D.C. 20240.” state park. tailed and broadwing hawks as they search for six feet. Pets are not allowed in park buildings.

food.The lakes provide habitat for nesting loons. • Park in designated areas only. DEPARTMENT OF The name Kandiyohi was taken from the Native NATURAL RESOURCES VEGETATION AND WILDLIFE: For centuries prairie •Motor bikes and other licensed vehicles are al- © 3/2008 by State of Minnesota, American words meaning Where-The-Buffalo-Fish- Department of Natural Resources DNR Maps