Urban Hiking: Lilydale Bluffs and the St. Paul Brickyard

Relative to: Nature in the city, and the beauty of St. Paul.

To stave off the longing for Montana’s wilderness, I went for an urban nature hike today. Not a mile from the new ZF home in St. Paul, MN is the Lilydale Regional Park, encompassing the bluffs above the Mississippi River, Pickerel Lake in the river floodplains and the old Brickyards of St. Paul. The park is popular for ice climbing and fossil hunting and connects with the greater trail system of the Mississippi River.