Maplewood State Park in MN -- Camping

Positioned in the Leaf Mountains where forest transitions to prairie, this 9,250-acre park preserves northern hardwoods—sugar maple, basswood, oak, elm—that blaze with color each fall. Hiking trails wind through the forest. Archaeologically significant, the park's Maplewood Site documents pre-contact Indigenous occupation from 650–900 CE and 1450–1650 CE and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The landscape supports abundant wildlife and wildflowers typical of this forest-prairie ecotone.

• Well separated here, with the nearest through road 0.9 miles off.
• South Arm Lake Lida lies 0.1 mi off.
• Open country, with nothing named rising within 30 miles.