Minnesota River Trail

Minnesota River Trail

Informal, braided trail network in the Minnesota River floodplain within Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge, maintained by MORC volunteers in cooperation with refuge land managers -- not a purpose-built singletrack system like most other Twin Cities destinations. NO single official total-mileage figure exists: sources describe different, non-equivalent scopes -- a specific named segment ("Lyndale Ave to Bloomington Ferry Rd") at 7.1mi, a different "longest trail in the network" at 6.9mi, and the refuge's own figure of 45+ miles of ALL trail types (paved, hiking, biking) across the entire 14,000-acre refuge, not MTB-singletrack-specific. total_miles intentionally left null rather than picking one of these.