Maplewood State Park

I love this park so much that we ended up going three times while visiting family in MN!

The first time we ended up just taking the twins and my niece.

This is the woodland trail loop.

It is under a mile but so pretty!

I may have told my husband that I was not going home…

Minnesota in the fall is hard to leave!

My adorable niece.

For the second visit, we had all of our kids and came into the park from the south.

This is a small portion of the Star Loop trail.

Next, we walked some of this beautiful trail near Maplewood Church.

I had actually decided to try a family picture with this stunning backdrop but a birthday party started.

I could not bring myself to get out my tripod and set everyone up for a family pic with an audience.

We drove into in the park a bit more and ended up stopping to take this pic on a side road.

I love how it looks like everyone is cooperating and having fun but in real life, I had one mad at me and glaring for most of the pics…

On our 3rd visit, we had just the girls(the boys opted to stay and play with cousins).

We hiked on the Ironwood Trail.

I can’t get over how pretty the woods were.

The girls decided to throw leaves at Nick on the hike back to the vehicle.

Love these.

I am already missing fall in Minnesota!