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Duluth News Tribune | Saturday, August 29, 2020

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EIGHT PARKS to picnic, bike, hike or study in

In a city with more than 100 parks, there’s likely one that fits your needs

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By Teri Cadeau tcadeau@duluthnews.com

n a city that has nearly 7,000 acres of parkland, there’s bound to be a place that fits whatever outdoor endeavor you want to take on. The city is home to more than 100 parks, but here are eight that work for a variety of activities, from picnics to ice climbing to rock skipping. We’ll start with the farthest west city park and work toward the east.

Chambers Grove Park

We begin far out in the Fond du Lac neighborhood on the outstretches of Duluth. One of the best features of this park is that it’s fairly quiet, tucked between Highway 23 and Highway 210 along the St. Louis River. A lot of the park flooded in 2012, but has been rebuilt and renovated to include easily walkable crushed blue stone paths, water access points for

Chambers Grove Park News Tribune file photo

canoes and kayaks, large picnic pavilions and a lot of mountain biking trails. It’s a perfect picnic or study spot with lots of benches and tables.

Quarry Park

Living up to its name, Quarry Park used to be the site of a crushed stone company and is most wellknown for its 100-foot-high cliff left from that business.

The park, which sits at the end of North 59th Avenue West, is a popular spot for ice climbers in the winter months due to the ice flows

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