点评:There's a small Visitor Center In the historic Mead Lodge, which is a log cabin.
There's a large parking lot. The bathrooms are in a separate building.
Inside there's a small gift shop. The 2 employees working were dressed like Voyageurs.
The display area is very small.
They do also have a small room were there's 2 films. The park film we saw the day before at Rainy Lake & a film about the Voyageurs. This film was made in like 1969, but it's good! It really shows you what these guys went through to make a buck.
If you look close at the running the rapids scene you can see the guy in the canoe holding the camera!
Out the back door is trail leading down to the lake. There's a boat dock & a nice viewing area of the Ash River.
We did 2 short trails on our way in:
The Beaver Pond overlook is a .3 mile there & back trail to an overlook of a marsh area. We were hoping to see a moose, but no luck! This supposed to be an easy trail, but there's stairs & the railing to see the view has a large slippery when wet rock.
My mobility challenged husband wasn't able to do the stairs.
The Forest Overlook Trail is a .3 mile loop through the woods. This is also supposed to be an "easy" trail, but with the mud/rocks/roots & some serious inclines I think on the high side of moderate. Both trails are buggy, so wear spray.
I was glad we came! This is a nice area.
翻译:历史悠久的米德旅馆(Mead Lodge)里有一个小型游客中心,那是一间小木屋。
那里有一个大型停车场。卫生间在另一栋楼里。
里面有一个小礼品店。两位工作人员的穿着像航海者。
展览区很小。
他们还有一个小房间,里面放着两部电影。一部是我们前一天在雷尼湖(Rainy Lake)看的公园电影,另一部是关于航海者的。这部电影大概拍摄于1969年,但很棒!它真实地展现了这些人为了赚钱经历了什么。
如果你仔细观察激流勇进的场景,你会看到独木舟里拿着摄像机的那个人!
后门外有一条小路通往湖边。那里有一个船坞和一个可以欣赏阿什河(Ash River)美景的观景台。
我们进去的时候走了两条短途路线:
海狸池观景台(Beaver Pond overlook)是一条0.3英里长的往返小路,通往一片沼泽地的观景台。我们原本希望能看到驼鹿,但没能如愿!这条路本来应该很容易上,但观景台和栏杆上却有一大块湿滑的岩石。
我行动不便的丈夫爬不了楼梯。
森林观景台小径是一条0.3英里长的环形小径,穿过树林。这条小径也应该很容易上,但因为有泥土/岩石/树根,以及一些陡峭的斜坡,我觉得难度有点高,但难度适中。两条小径上都有越野车,所以一定要喷洒喷雾。
很高兴我们来了!这里真是个好地方。