RECREATION

Recreation Areas

• Anoka County Riverfront Park
  5100 River Road • Minneapolis, MN 55432
  763-757-3920
  This park offers opportunities for biking, a boat launch, canoeing, fishing, hiking, picnicking, and cross-country skiing.  map

• Bunker Hills Regional Park
  2038 Foley Boulevard • Minneapolis, MN 55304
  763-757-3920
  Bunker Hills Regional Park features a wave pool, a play area, and facilities for archery, biking, camping, golfing, hiking, horseback riding, picnicking, swimming, and cross country skiing.

• Elm Creek Park Reserve
  12400 Elm Creek Park Drive • Minneapolis, MN 55369
  763-694-7894
  Summer activities include hiking and biking trails, a chlorinated upland swimming pond, massive children’s play area, picnic pavilions and picnicking sites, an archery course, an off-leash pet exercise area and much more. Winter activities include a new snow-tubing hill, a beginner-level downhill ski and snowboard hill, cross-country skiing, sliding and snowshoeing.  more...

• Midwest Mountaineering
  309 Cedar Avenue • Minneapolis, MN 55454
  612-339-3433
  Summer activities at this park include canoeing, kayaking, backpacking, camping, hiking, and climbing; winter activities include cross country skiing, ski skating, snow shoeing, winter camping, climbing and mountaineering.  map

• National Sports Center
  1700 105th Avenue • Minneapolis, MN 55449
  763-785-5601
  The National Sports Center features an indoor sports hall, a twelve-thousand-seat outdoor stadium, four sheets of Olympic-sized ice, and an eighteen-hole putting course with real bent grass greens; banquet and reception facilities are also available.  map

Cycling

• Cycle Seven
  Southdale • Minneapolis, MN 55435
  Edina
  612-227-9773
  Cycle Seven is the Twin Cities first conference bike business. To make a reservation, check the calendar to see when the conference bike is available or coming to a neighborhood near you. Email a request for days and times. A conference bike can be rented by the day, by the hour, or for a number of consecutive days. Rentals and tours will continue throughout the winter, weather permitting.   map

Golf

• Kate Haven Golf Course
  8791 Lexington Avenue • Minneapolis, MN 55014
  763-786-2945
  This public nine-hole executive par-thirty golf course offers rolling hills and water hazards.  map

• Rush Creek Golf Club
  7801 County Road 101 • Minneapolis, MN 55311
  763-494-8844
  This championship eighteen-hole golf course features a driving range and putting greens, and also offers an on-site pub and restaurant.  map

• Sundance Golf and Bowl
  15240 113th Avenue • Minneapolis, MN 55369
  763-420-4700
  Sundance Golf and Bowl features a regulation eighteen-hole golf course, while also offering a twenty four lane bowling alley, as well as banquet facilities.  map

• Tournament Greens
  1700 105th Avenue • Minneapolis, MN 55449
  763-785-5643
  Designed by the PGA Tour, this eighteen-hole putting course of real bent grass greens presents a challenge to even the lowest of handicaps.  map

Rafting & Canoeing

• Wilderness Inquiry
  808 Fourteenth Avenue • Minneapolis, MN 55414
  612-676-9400
  Wilderness Inquiry provides day and overnight wilderness canoe, kayak and rafting trips, as well as dog sled and horse pack adventures; equipment and food are provided.  map

Skating

• Columbia Ice Arena
  7011 University Avenue • Minneapolis, MN 55432
  763-571-6701
  This arena consists of two ice rinks that are available for hockey, figure skating and public ice skating; the movie, "Mighty Ducks", was filmed at this facility.  map

• Depot Skating Rink, The
  203 Fifth Avenue • Minneapolis, MN 55401
  612-339-2253
  The Depot Skating Rink is a seasonal climate controlled indoor figure skating rink, with special lighting and a high quality sound system. Open figure skating is available daily at various times. more...  map

• Schwan's Super Rink
  1700 105th Avenue • Minneapolis, MN 55449
  763-785-3687
  This state-of-the-art facility is the largest ice arena of its kind in the world, and is the only arena with four Olympic sheets of ice under one roof; the facility is also used for adult hockey leagues, open skating, skating lessons, figure skating, speed skating and more.  map

Snow Sports

• Hyland-Bush-Anderson Park Reserve
  10145 Bush Lake Road • Minneapolis, MN 55438
  952-941-4362
  This recreation area offers an eleven mile skiing trail that runs through both hilly and flat lands, as well as through woods and an open meadow that surrounds a lake; ski and sit-ski rentals are available.  map

• Theodore Wirth Regional Park
  1301 Theodore Wirth Parkway • Minneapolis, MN 55422
  612-522-4584
  The Theodore Wirth Regional Park features an eight mile ski trail that runs through open parkland and woods, with most of the trails being at an intermediate level; the park is adjacent to a downhill ski area, and offers lighted trails at night.  map

Swimming

• Bunker Hills Wave Pool
  1038 Parkway Road • Minneapolis, MN 55304
  763-767-2895
  This twenty-five-thousand-square-foot pool offers fun for the entire family, with waves generated every five seconds for fifteen minutes, followed by a ten minute rest period; tubes are also available for rent.

• Tropics Indoor Water Park
  4580 Victoria Street • Minneapolis, MN 55126
  651-490-4700
  This water park is the home of the metro's largest and most exciting indoor water slide, and features a two-hundred-ten-foot twisting water slide and more; one may also choose to participate in and enjoy water volleyball and slam-dunk water basketball.  map