Zippel Bay State Park

good view of Lake of the Woods

I love the state park sign. We had limited time to visit, so we just drove the gravel road to Lake of the Woods. The walk to the bay is around 15 minutes. We didn't have time for a 1/2 hour walk, bu...

Yes, There are Bear

We drove through all areas of the park, but only stayed for lunch at the busy beach. It’s a dry year, so there weren’t a lot of bugs. The Sandy beach led out the water — which isn’t very deep. The...

Best beach

We had a great time at this state park. My favorite thing was the beach. It was the perfect place to social distance as there weren't many people there and it was a big beach. I would definitely go ba...

Beach in northern minnesota

Girls week. Came to get away from covid and see the two state parks up here. We stayed at Cyrus resort 10 miles away so was an easy drive over. We did not camp. We went to the beach which was a nice s...

Great swimming beach, beautiful birch forest

We stayed two nights at the Lady Slipper campground. It’s a tiny campground so the sites are quite close together and not super private. We found it to be very dense and very buggy. If we were to go a...