West Medicine Lake Park-Plymouth-Minnesota

Today’s hiking adventure began at West Medicine Lake Park.

As we made our way towards the beach, there was a lion’s head water fountain. Of course, we had to stop and take photos of the lion eating our heads.

Medicine Lake

The trail name changed several times depending where we were. We hiked part of the Medicine Lake Regional Trail, Luce Line Regional Trail and French Regional Park Loop. I highly recommend this trail especially in the spring.

The boardwalk ran parallel to train tracks. It would have been cool to see a train going by.

We found a marker for the 45th Parallel.

Our hike not only had a wonderful soundtrack thanks to the birds; we also experienced the wonderful smells of spring.

We made a tiny detour only to hike through the side by side tunnels.

This giant mushroom (Dryad’s Saddle) looked like a water dish for the birds.

We made our way back to our starting point.

Today’s hiking adventure was 7.8 miles.