The Plateau Rock Trail is the reason why I wanted to start this blog. There is zero information from the park on these trails. Hearing the name Plateau Rock, I thought it would be an awesome view from the top. A giant rock that you could stand on or something like that. I couldn't have been more wrong. This trail is extremely difficult. It is straight up and there are no steps or even switchbacks to make this easier. It was slippery and steep. Drop off on one side, rock face on the other side. I probably should have turned around, but I just had to get to the top of it. Surely after all that it would at least have an awesome view, right? Nope. Tree cover was too thick to see anything. The trail does follow along the top of the bluff for a little bit. I was really hoping that there would be another, hopefully easier way down, but no such luck. At the end of this trail, we found a geo cache stuck in a dead tree. The boys were fascinated by this. The way down was even scarier than the way up, but we kept it slow and we all made it down safely. I do not recommend this trail especially if you have young kids with you.
We also did parts of the Beaver Creek Trail since it connects with Plateau Rock. This one is a very nice trail. that follows Beaver Creek. There are lots of bridges that cross the creek and the boys loved to stop at these and throw rocks in the river. I don't quite get the fascination of this, but they could spend hours on these bridges throwing rocks, leaves, and sticks in the rushing water.
I'm hoping that we will get to do another park in August sometime. I have already made reservations for Banning State Park for Labor Day weekend. I'm so excited about this. Banning Park is so far my absolute favorite park in Minnesota.
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