Rock Lake 77 Campground Lake Nisswa Margaret Road Nature Trail DAY- USE 107 AREA Lake Shore Forest Pillsbury Trail 1290 Trail Pillsbury 25 Walter E. Stark 23 COUNTY CASS 21 17 18 Assembly Area and 107 24 COUNTY WING CROW 26 19 1280 16 Horse Campground 22 15 Pillsbury 28 20 14 30 107 13 27 32 12 Agate Lake 29 Wildlife Management 31 11 Area 77 36 Hardy 38 10 Lake Agate 37 39 35 9 34 Lake 41 1280 40 8 Rock 6 42 7H Lake 43 Resort 5 Brook 4 1 Rush 44 3 2 West Gull 1 Tower Road 15 15 SEE INSET Old-Growth Rock Lake Forest Little Long Shafer Campground Lake Lake Gull Lake Pillsbury State Forest Hines Circle 77 Bass Shafer Lake Lake Day-Use Area Rock Lake TRAILS Gull Ruth Drive Point Lake Forest Road Public Land Within the Forest 4.7 mi. d o o Duffney w Lake Minimum Maintanance Forest Private Land Within the Forest Walk e in n gs i Road tic P Orchard 1 k City Boundaries Park Terry R Johnson 4.2 mi. Horseback/Mountain Bike Trail Lane Road Long Lake Dr. Recreation Area Land Outside Forest Boundaries Lake US Army Corps of Engineers Snowmobile Only (Dec. 1 - Mar. 31) 105 Federal Land Road Hiking/Mountain Bike Trail Long Gull 77 Ski Trail River Green Is It Trespassing? Forest Bass Wilson 70 East Gull Lake Bike Trails Lake East Gull On private land, the simple and best answer is, Lake Dead Horse Bay Lake Lake Ask First! Signs are posted by the landowners, Beauty Gate and they will state, No Trespassing, or similar words in two-inch letters and the signature or 34 Beauty name and telephone number of the landowner, Mileage Segment Ends Lake Section lessee, or manager. There can be civil and 27 Road criminal penalties for violation of the trespass Steamboat FACILITIES laws. 2.8mi. 1 Bay Civil penalties start at $50 Stevens Information & Registration for first offense and 2.2mi. 18 Lake range up to $500 and loss of license or Road 1886 To Brainerd Parking registration for a third Lost t s Homestead offense, within three e 7 Miles r East Gull Lake o years. All conservation Lake Legacy Picnic Area F 77 Airport and peace officers enforce 77 Lake 77 trespass laws. Stump Pillsbury Campground Road Lake gate Oak trails! marked on stay Rogers Br. Peterson Cr. Walk-in Camping property, private Entering Dade Bass Trail Lake Ridge Lake Rice Horse Camp Lake River Walter E. Stark Historic Site Harlan Lake Assembly Area 7.0mi. Sylvan Lake SEE INSET Boat Ramp Pillager ABOVE HORSE Cr. Lake Carry-in Access 0 0.5 1.0 TRAIL PASS Scale in Miles Swimming 18 M.S. 85.46 No person 16 or older may ride, lead or drive a horse on this trail without a valid horse trail pass. Fishing Pier Violations are a misdemeanor and subject to fine. Horse trail pass fees are dedicated for Pillager North acquisition, development and maintenance 1 Baxter Drinking Water of horse trails and equestrian facilities. To Pillager Horse trail passes can be purchased at any Gull Minnesota electronic licensing system (ELS) location, or see www.dnr.state.mn.us 1 Mile Vault Toilet Minnesota Department of Natural Resources © 2009, State of Minnesota Manure Bunker Little Red Department of Natural Resources Sand Lake Keep Trees a Healthy Part of Your World! About the Forest Snowmobile Laws Stay on the trails with the help of orange reassuring Pillsbury blazers, which are posted along the route. Alcohol, nighttime driving, and high speeds Size: 25,612 acres Plant trees. Make sure they are right for the site. are the main causes of snowmobile fatalities. Recreation: Recreational facilities in the forest Conservation officers remind snowmobilers: State Forest Year Created: 1900 (Minnesotas first state forest) include the Rock Lake Campground and Day-Use Area, Help keep trees healthy. Operating a snowmobile while intoxicated Walter E. Stark Horse Assembly Area, and Shafer Lake, For example: Water trees is unlawful. Forest Landscape: A rolling to hilly topography Green Bass Lake, and Beauty Lake day-use areas. during dry periods; avoid 50 miles per hour is the maximum legal speed for A guide to recreational opportunities that is a result of past glacial activity. Numerous small in Minnesota state forests wounding bark with lawn snowmobiling on frozen public waters and DNR- ponds and lakes occupy depressions in the glacial The Rock Lake Campground contains 44 campsites, mowers and weed whips; stake controlled lands (conditions permitting, when no moraine. four of which are handicapped accessible. There is also small-diameter, newly planted other restrictions apply). a walk-in campsite. The Rock Lake Day-Use Area is trees to give them added Management Activities: Timber harvesting, adjacent to the campground and provides a picnic ground, support; mulch trees to help For complete legal information see Minnesota reforestation, wildlife habitat improvement, and swimming beach, and water-access site. retain moisture in the soil. Snowmobile Safety Laws, Rules, and Regulations, available from DNR Information Center and DNR recreational development occur in the forest. Deer- Licensing Bureau. browse protection is also being done to help young white The Walter E. Stark Horse Assembly Area (along Celebrate Arbor Day and pine, a favorite food of the whitetail, become the Pillsbury Forest Road) provides horse camping and Arbor Month. In Minnesota, Arbor Day is the last Friday The Grant-In-Aid established. The DNR protects the forest and surrounding horse-trailer parking. Shafer Lake Day-Use Area has in April and May is Arbor Month. Trail System Northwest Minnesota Snowmobile Trails Minnesota DEPARTMENT OF areas from wildfires. room for horse-trailer parking and picket lines for horses. GRANT-IN-AID NATURAL RESOURCES TRAIL Through efforts of snowmobile club Green Bass Lake and Beauty Lake are canoe access Join or establish a local tree committee or board. volunteers across the state, Minneso- History: Millions of board feet of virgin pine were sites. tans enjoy more than 20,000 miles of Locations of Minnesotas snowmobile trails have been cut from the area in the late 1800s to make way for Go to www.MNtrees.org, Minnesotas one-stop groomed snowmobile trails. The mapped for NW, NE, SW, and SE Minnesota and copies Web site for information on trees, tree care, and A Cooperative Project maintenance of 90 percent of these are available from DNR Information Center and other farmland. Much of the land was found unsuitable for For Outdoor Recreation trails is the responsibility of local agriculture, however, and many of the farms were tree-related organizations. locations. The same information is available on the DNR Trail User Organizations snowmobile clubs and Minnesota Web site, www.dnr.state.mn.us. Local Unit of Government eventually abandoned. Minnesota Department of Natural Resources United Snowmobilers Association (MnUSA). Minnesotas first forest reserve was established in The forest is closed to off-highway vehicles (see 1900 when 1,000 acres of cutover pine lands in Cass OHV information in far right column.) However, vehicles The Value of Trees licensed for highway use may use forest roads that are County, donated to the state by Governor John S. Hunting OHV Use on State Forest Lands Pillsbury, became the Pillsbury State Forest. Over the not posted or gated closed and snowmobiles may operate Trees help humans and other living on designated trails. things in many ways. Among years, the Minnesota Legislature enlarged the original them, they: Hunting in state forests is allowed during State forest lands are classified by the commissioner for forest reserve to its present size. The DNR manages all purposes of motor vehicle use. The Pillsbury trail system includes 27 miles of trails. the appropriate season and with the of the publicly owned land within the state forest correct license. State forests do contain private holdings Visitors can hike, bike, and horseback ride in the Remove carbon dioxide (a The DNR is conducting a review of state forests that Paul Bunyan boundary, with the rest belonging to industry and private greenhouse gas) and other within their boundaries, many of which are signed no Foothills State Trail summer and snowmobile in the winter. Trails are currently permit off-highway vehicle use. Following the State Crow individuals. pollutants from the air. hunting. Hunting on private land within a state forest is Forest Wing marked and groomed for snowmobiling and connect review, these forests may be reclassified as either State 6 subject to state trespass laws. managed, limited, or closed to OHV use. C A S S Forest several points of interest within the forest. Highlights: Minnesotas first forest tree nursery Produce oxygen. Pequot Lakes Pine Firearms, deer stands: For up-to-date information, check www.mndnr.gov/ River was developed in the state forest in 1903. Some of the River Hunting, fishing, and trapping, in accordance input/mgmtplans/ohv/designation/index.html Provide food and Firearms must be unloaded and cased and bows must be descendants of that long-gone enterprise can still be with state regulations, are allowed on all public land Pillsbury shelter for wildlife. unstrung and cased while in or within 200 feet of a forest seen along County Highway 15. In 1911 the regions within the state forest. Beauty Lake Forest Road State Forest recreation area (campground, day-use area, etc.). The first fire lookout tower was erected in the forest. Built and Pillsbury Forest Road are open year-round Provide wood 64 only exception is during an open hunting season when a PILLSBURY STATE Cuyuna of wood, it was later abandoned when steel towers were to facilitate access to forest areas.