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06/07/2026

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06/04/2026

No internet? That's the point 🌲⛅

Free Park Day is coming up on Saturday, June 13, 2026 (also National Get Outdoors Day!). Spend time outside at a Minnesota state park or recreation area—for free! No vehicle entry permits are required on Free Park Days, so take this opportunity to turn off your phones and explore the trails.

There are so many health and wellness benefits of spending time in nature! From boosting moods to lowering stress levels, improved attention spans and increased exercise, spending time in nature is a great way to take care of yourself, mentally and physically.

Where will you go for Free Park Day? Share this post with your adventure buddy and start planning your state park trip today!

Learn more about Free Park Days on our website: mndnr.gov/freeparkday

📷 Colleen Lewis, Itasca State Park

05/23/2026

05/13/2026

05/13/2026

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05/04/2026

May the 4th be With You!

Happy Star Wars Day to all that celebrate!

04/22/2026

In Memoriam: Ansel Adams
February 20, 1902 — April 22, 1984
🌎 Every day is Earth Day 🌍

“It would be presumptuous, and out of tune with this occasion, to attempt a definition of Ansel, or an assessment of his place in art, or anything so solemn. It would be equally out of tune to eulogize him. I only want to celebrate him—what he meant to me, how he affected my thinking and my conduct and especially my spirits.

“He enlarged and enhanced life, and he was all of a piece. In his person, in his art, in his reverence for nature and his affection for people, in his long and often headlong advocacy of honorable causes, in his hatred of crookedness, deviousness, dishonesty and irresponsibility, and in his steadfast belief in the human potential for dignity and even nobility, he forced us upward, never downward.

“He woke up dead rooms, he lifted slow pulses, he stiffened sagging spines. Full of laughter and high spirits, in love with word-play and the play of ideas, he never telephoned without a new joke, and rarely wrote so much as a postcard without a jingle or limerick to lighten it. That joviality covered, but could not mask, the solidity and strength of real principles and immovable integrity. A rock is not less granite because sunlight plays across it…

“Ansel’s mind and vision, his reverence, his delicacy and strength, his granite and the sunlight that played on it and the grave shadows it sheltered will have power to move and enhance and enlarge us as long as walls exist for photographs to hang on and the culture retains the skill to print from negatives. He has left us both scores and performances, and therefore himself. He is not a man to be merely remembered. He is here. We have him.” — Wallace Stegner

Image: Ansel Adams (Looking at View Camera), 1944. Photographed by Nancy Newhall (1908 - 1974) Copyright © 1944, Nancy Newhall, © 2021, the Estate of Beaumont and Nancy Newhall. Courtesy of Scheinbaum and Russek Ltd., Santa Fe, New Mexico.

04/14/2026

Please let your voice be heard!