View of Beaver Creek from the Suspension Bridge
My husband and youngest son on the Suspension Bridge
The first crossing to the campsites. The crossing to the tent only campsite is smaller and just gravel, no pavement.
Spring water bubbling up from the ground. (more information on this to come)
This park is located in Houston County, Caledonia, MN. It's about an hour's drive from where I live in Winona, MN. It's a beautiful drive among the bluff country of Minnesota. I absolutely love the creeks that run through this park. They are so clear and I love the bubbling sound of the brook as it rushes over the rocks. They also have a nice playground that my two boys loved to play on and a really cool suspension bridge that crosses over Beaver Creek. The bridge does sway so watch the little ones. Campground is nice, but we didn't have a campsite close to the river which I would have preferred. They do have some really awesome tent campsites. We had our camper and so we couldn't get back to the tent sites and it is TENT ONLY. You have to go over another stream crossing to get to it, but these sites all seem really nice. They are surrounded by bluffs on one side and the rushing creek on the other. They are also very spread out and when we were visiting, there were not a lot of tent campers there. I would imagine it would feel like you have the whole place to yourself camped out there. Another thing to note about this park is the bathrooms. I didn't use the shower (it was only one night, people), but I did have to use the restrooms...unfortunately. They are pit toilets and they are super gross. The scariest part of those happened our second day. I took my youngest to the bathroom. He's almost three and I was holding him up so he could pee and he started screaming there was a spider. Honestly, I thought he was talking about all the spider webs that covered the whole inside of the toilets, but they were pretty far down. So I told him not to worry about it. Just go. He finally did, but right after he was done, a black spider crawled out right where he had been. I have no idea what kind of spider it was, but needless to say (1) I felt horrible making my child go pee when that thing could have crawled out and on him at any time and (2) I was super scared to go the bathroom after that. If I was a guy, it might not be so bad, but I really did not want to sit down after seeing what could crawl out of it.
Other than that, the park was great and I would recommend it, especially if you have a camper that has your own bathroom and you can avoid the restrooms there.
