Bassett Creek Park – Neaton Adventures

Best of 2024

January 11, 2025Posted in Adventure, Christi Neaton, hiking, Minnesota, Minnesota State Parks, Mississippi River, Nature, Outdoors, Photography, UncategorizedTagged Adventure, Bassett Creek Park, Best of 2024, Carley State Park, Christi Neaton, DWP Railroad Tunnel, Ely's Peak, exploring, hiking, Hiking Adventures, Illgen Falls, Iona's Beach SNA, Kawishiwi Falls, Maquoketa Caves State Park, Mines of Spain, Minnehaha Falls, Minnesota, Minnesota State Parks, nature photography, Nerstrand Big Woods State Park, Outdoors, Parks, Pattison State Park, Pine Ridge Trail, Willow River State Park10 Comments

2024 brought another wonderful year of hiking adventures!

Nerstrand Big Woods State Park-Nerstrand-Minnesota

Bassett Creek Park-Crystal-Minnesota

Carley State Park-Plainview-Minnesota

Memorial Park-Red Wing-Minnesota

Willow River State Park-Hudson-Wisconsin

Mines of Spain-Dubuque-Iowa

Maquoketa Caves State Park-Maquoketa-Iowa

DWP Railroad Tunnel-Duluth-Minnesota

Illgen Falls-Beaver Bay Township-Minnesota

Iona’s Beach Scientific and Natural Area-Two Harbors-Minnesota

Pattison State Park-Superior-Wisconsin

Ely’s Peak-Duluth-Minnesota

Kawishiwi Falls-Ely-Minnesota

Pine Ridge Trail-Tower-Minnesota

Minnehaha Falls-Minneapolis-Minnesota

Happy New Year! Cheers to more adventures in 2025!

Bassett Creek Park-Crystal-Minnesota

March 30, 2024Posted in Adventure, hiking, Minnesota, Nature, Outdoors, Photography, UncategorizedTagged Adventure, Bassett Creek, Bassett Creek Park, Briarwood Nature Area, exploring, hiking, Hiking Adventures, Minnesota, Nature, nature photography, Outdoors, Parks, travel, Winter, Winter hiking5 Comments

Today’s hiking adventure was at Bassett Creek Park.

Minnesota was hit with a snow storm earlier this week. Today might be our last hike with snow coverage before it melts for the season.

We hiked along the nicely paved trails crossing over Bassett Creek.

The trail looped around Bassett Creek Pond.

Once on the east side of the pond, we left the park to cross over Highway 100.

Briarwood Nature Area, in the city of Golden Valley, greeted us on the other side of the highway.

We looped around Briarwood Nature Area, crossing over Bassett Creek again.

The clouds dissipated as we made our way back to Bassett Creek Park. We hiked up the snow covered hill on the west side of the park. At the top of the hill, the tall buildings in Downtown Minneapolis could be seen in the distance.

Two snowmen waved us on as we passed by.

As we made our way back to our starting point, we hiked a very muddy trail alongside Bassett Creek.

Today’s hiking adventure was 4.5 miles.