LAC QUI PARLE 7 Miles 13 TSON and 59 STATE PARK NORTH WA

To MONTEVIDEO FACILITIES AND spring

FEATURES Kilometers •Upper Campground (showers ederal Dam and ederal Recreation Area

and flush toilets) F (Picnic and Warming) (Picnic and •Lower Campground (showers 3.4.5 but no flush toilets) easy ski trail aterfowl Observation Deck aterfowl ailer Sanitation Station LITIES State Park & Wildlife Office Wildlife & State Park Information State Park Picnic Area Swimming Boat Ramp Campground Group Camp Primitive Use Area Equestrian Day Historic Site Shelter Map Shelter Tr Scenic Overlook W Camper Cabins Canoe Access PropertyPrivate Hiking Only Horseback/Hiking/Ski • 3 Camper Cabins Biking (on road shoulder) 32

• Primitive group camp (50 33 0.1.2.3.4.5 0.1.2. FACI TRAILS

capacity) in lower unit and State Park To Office Wildlife • Horseback riders day-use area 75 • 20 picnic sites 32 • Swimming beach • Drive in boat launch to Lac qui Parle Lake UPPER

• 5 miles of hiking trail 0.4 mi. • 5 miles of horseback riding CAMPGROUND • 5 miles of ski trail 0.2 mi.

• 2 trailer dump stations Hagen Bridge • Canoe access to Lac qui Parle 0.9 mi. 0.5 mi. River Headquarters LOWER State Park & Wildlife Area Wildlife & State Park

• Public telephones CAMPGROUND

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LOOKING FOR MORE INFORMATION? CHIPPEWA COUNTY The DNR has mapped the state showing federal, LAC QUI PARLE COUNTY state and county lands with their recreational facilities. Public Recreation Information Maps (PRIM) are available for purchase from the DNR gift shop, DNR Island

regional offices, state parks and major Rosemoen sporting and map stores. Check it out - you'll be glad you did. Milan To Bridge Because lands exist within the Because lands exist boundaries of this park that are not under the jurisdiction of the D.N.R., with the park manager if you check and such as trails plan to use facilities roads other than those shown. © 6/2009 by State of Minnesota, 33 Department of Natural Resources LAC QUI PARLE STATE PARK LOWER CAMPGROUND Parking LAC QUI PARLE STATE PARK UPPER CAMPGROUND Parking Shower Building U26 e Shower Building Trailer Sanitation U27 e Station U08 swe Trailer Sanitation Picnic and Warming Station Shelter U25 e U07 swe U09 swe Walk-in Camping Group Camp U28 e Duluth U29 e • Campground Host Horse Day Use U24 e 20e U30 e 22e U23 e U10 swe U11 Accessible Site 18e Map Shelter U32 e LAC QUI PARLE 23e U31 e Electrical Sites Camper Cabin STATE PARK e U22 e U12 swe U06 U05 swe U34 e U21 Water Drinking Water Minneapolis/ 21e 19e 16e U13 St. Paul 24 U33 e • Toilets Toilets 17e U20 e U03 swe U04 swe sites with full hook up W3 U35 e U37 e U18 e 6 U38 e e 3 7e U36 e sites with electricity only 10e U19 e U01 swe 12 15 U14 swe U15 U02 foot trail 13 U39 e 1 LAC QUI PARLE 2 U41 e U16 e 4 5 U40 e U17 e 8 9 11 camping 14 self-registration to Highways 7, 59 STATE PARK W2 U42 e to Canoe C1 station & Landing State Park Office FOR MORE INFORMATION U43 e Lac qui Parle State Park C3 14047 - 20th Street NW Watson, MN 56295 W1 to Recreation Area NORTH (320)-734-4450 Group Camp C2 ♦ G1 Department of Natural Resources Underlined site numbers Underlined site numbers 32 Information Center are RESERVABLE are RESERVABLE 500 Lafayette Road NORTH St. Paul, MN 55155-4040 (Horse Area Group (651) 296-6157 (Metro Area) Day Use Only) Camp SO EVERYONE CAN ENJOY THE PARK... • Build fires only in designated locations—fire 1-888-646-6367 (MN Toll Free) G2 • The park belongs to all Minnesotans. rings or fireplaces. Portable stoves or grills Please treat it with respect and help us to are permitted. TTY (Telecommunications protect it by following the rules: Device for Deaf) • Daily or annual permits are required for all HISTORY: Lac qui Parle, the “lake that speaks” Within the stockade, Dr. Thomas Smith • The park is open year-round. On a daily basis, vehicles entering a state park. They may be (651) 296-5484 (Metro Area) according to Dakota legend, was named by Williamson and Alexander Huggins founded the park gate is closed from 10P.M. to 8 A.M. purchased at the park headquarters or the 1-800-657-3929 (MN Toll Free) French explorers who lived with the Indians. the Lac qui Parle Mission in July 1835. the following morning except to registered Information Center in St. Paul (see “FOR DNR Web Site: www.dnr.state.mn.us For several thousand years before the Dakota The mission, designed to educate and convert campers. MORE INFORMATION” to left). • Camp only in designated locations. State Parks page: www.mnstateparks.info lived in the region, bands of nomadic hunters the Indians, was the first church in the state. ♦ had followed big game into the Minnesota • The use of firearms, explosives, air guns, slingshots, traps, seines, nets, bows and ar- This information is available in Valley. These early hunters may have wit- The missionaries translated the Gospel and alternative format upon request. LAC QUI PARLE STATE PARK is located 12 nessed Glacial River Warren in all its magnif- several hymns into the Dakota language and rows, and all other weapons is prohibited in miles northwest of Montevideo on the Minnesota icence. Some of the earliest archaeological completed the first grammar and dictionary state parks. “Equal opportunity to participate in and benefit from River. Access is by Chippewa County Roads 13 artifacts in the state have been found along of the language. At the mission, Minnesota’s • Pets must be restrained on a leash no longer programs of the Minnesota Department of Natural than six feet. Pets are not allowed in park Resources is available to all individuals regardless of and 32, and Lac qui Parle County Road 33. the beaches of Glacial Lake Agassiz. first cloth was also made. race, color, creed or religion, national origin, sex, marital Minnesota highway map index: D-16. buildings. • Park in designated areas only. status, status with regard to public assistance, sexual Shortly after 1826, Joseph Renville, a pic- The Dakota treaties of 1851 included a provi- •Motor bikes and other licensed vehicles are orientation, age or disability. Discrimination inquires should Lac qui Parle State Park consists of 1057 acres. turesque coureur de bois–independent fur sion for an Indian educational program. allowed only on park roads, not on trails. be sent to the Minnesota Department of It is the southern gateway to Lac qui Parle trader–built a stockade overlooking the foot However, plans to remodel the mission Natural Resources, 500 Lafayette Road, St. Minnesota • Enjoy park wildlife and plants but please Paul, MN 55155-4031; or the Equal Lake, a broadening of the in of Lac qui Parle. During the War of 1812, station into a boarding school were never respect them. Do not pick or dig up plants, realized. Opportunity Office, Department of the the Glacial River Warren Valley. To the north he had been a captain in the British army. disturb or feed animals, or scavenge dead Interior, Washington, D.C. 20240.” and west of the recreation area is the 33,000- He lived in the stockade with his relatives DEPARTMENT OF wood. NATURAL RESOURCES acre Lac qui Parle Wildlife Management Area. and retainers. © 6/2009 by State of Minnesota, Department of Natural Resources DNR Maps