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McLeod County is home to six county parks totaling 571 acres. Two of those parks are regional facilities, which allow overnight camping. The other four parks are day parks. The six county parks offi cially open May 1 and close Oct. 1. The parks are open from 7 a.m. to sunset each day.

Day parks: Stahl’s Lake Park is 5 miles northwest of Hutchinson on 230th Street. Swan Lake Park is 3 miles northwest of Silver Lake on Swan Lake Road. Wm. May Park is 2 miles southeast of Winsted on Zion Avenue. Buffalo Creek Park is 3 miles east of Glencoe on County Road 1. These parks all offer open spaces for activities, trails and a picnic shelter. For shelter reservations, call 320484-4334.

Regional parks: Lake Marion Park is 6 miles south of Hutchinson along State Highway 15. It offers open space for activities, fi shing piers, boat access, beach and picnic shelters. Reservations can be made by calling 320-3284479. Piepenburg Park is 7 miles northwest of Hutchinson on Belle Lake Road. It offers open spaces for activities, fishing piers, boat access, beach and picnic shelters. Reservations can be made by calling 320-587-2082. Online camping reservations are now available at tinyurl.com/y9xgtbk2.

GOPHER CAMPFIRE CLUB WILDLIFE SANCTUARY

Whether you’re young or young at heart, the Gopher Campfire Club’s Wildlife Sanctuary year-round is a popular destination. The 25-acre site along the Crow River between Riverside Jaycee and Masonic/ West River parks is home to geese, ducks, turkeys, swans and a number of deer. The Luce Line State Trail passes along the sanctuary’s river side. The site is managed by the Gopher Campfire Club, one of the state’s oldest conservation organizations.

LUCE LINE STATE TRAIL

The city’s extensive network of recreational trails are open year-round for walking, running and biking. Most trails have been constructed alongside streets when they are rebuilt. Hutchinson has been designated a Bicycle-Friendly Community because of this, and has made an investment in signage around the city.

The Luce Line State Trail also passes through the city. It was paved through McLeod in 2015 after a wait of more than 30 years. The trail stretches from Plymouth, a western Twin Cities suburb, to Meeker County’s Cosmos Park on Thompson Lake, about 18 miles west of Hutchinson.

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CITY POOLS

The Hutchinson Family Aquatic Center at the Recreation Center, 900 Harrington St. S.W., opened in 2017. It features water slides, a zipline, a lazy river and various other water play features. Hutchinson also has the Jerry Carlson Pool available indoors at the Hutchinson Middle School, 1365 South Grade Road.

HUTCHINSON RECREATION CENTER

The Recreation Center, 950 Harrington St. S.W., is operated by Hutchinson’s Parks, Recreation and Community Education department. It is the epicenter for many recreational sports activities and leagues. The facility features a large, indoor multipurpose gym that hosts soccer, basketball, volleyball and more.

BURICH ARENA

Ice skaters can be found at Burich Arena, 900 Harrington St., across the parking lot from the Hutchinson Recreation Center. The building accommodates two sheets of ice and is open for public skating, figure skating shows, youth hockey games, and is home to the Tigers boys and girls hockey teams.

When the ice isn’t in at Burich Arena, it is a multipurpose space that hosts wrestling tournaments, in-line skating, baseball and lacrosse training, and other dryland training.

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