The kids love this place. Its an indoor playground with lots to see and do…read more Colorful murals add a jungle feel to a spacious sunny well maintained area. The hit seems to be the kiddie roller coaster carts. Up to three kids can race these at a time. The climb and slide room was also a big hit. $1 a kid. Adults are free. Its tied to a Lutheran Church but all are welcome. No heavy handed proselytizing, just a fun place to play.

Great indoor play center for the little ones....infant-6ish…read more Open during the cold MN winter months. Gives the kids a place to run and play with other little ones and a place for parents/caregivers to meet and chat. Clean, well kept, coffee, restrooms, indoor playground. Inside Life Lutheran Church, Pastor Meyer is welcoming and very personable. Great guy! $1 per child is well worth the cost.

The lower park area and the boat launch area are both really nice, but the actual trail is…read moreseemingly nonexistent guesswork and really dangerous - typically being an inch or two from a near-sheer cliff into the water. Worse, the path isn't cleared by anyone (i.e. forestry or park services) and so you can't actually see the path and it's complete guess work on extremely slippery leaves before it just disappears entirely and you're left with no idea where is safe to go. Pretty disappointed after looking forward to trying to go to the peak of this big hill for a romantic little hike. Also kind of gross and weird you have to pass through a toilet paper factory to get here? There is such a dissonance between a factory and hiking up a woody hill that it just makes it feel weird. The two stars are because I'd love to give 5 stars to both the boat launch and the park areas if they were listed by themselves. Without those included this is just a 0 for me.

Went here after the Eaux Claire festival. Place is hard to get too but so worth it. Amazing hike…read moreand breath taking view at the top. I would love to come here again.

Boundless has been such a great place for our family! We have a membership for our 2-year-old, and…read moreit's been worth every bit. The staff provides excellent customer service and you can tell they truly care -- everything is always very clean and well-maintained. The play options are fantastic: from the large indoor play structure, to the basketball court and turf area, and even a quiet area for kids who need a little break. It really feels like there's something for every age and energy level. Peak times can get chaotic but it's still big enough. We'd definitely recommend Boundless to any family looking for a safe, fun, and welcoming environment for their kids to play and grow.

My kids (5 and 2) had a blast. Really unique space compared to the community center indoor play…read moreareas. Really big inside, cool there are benches for adults scattered throughout, gives it an indoor park feeling. The full size basketball court is a nice touch and the turf area for soccer, catch, running around is great too. We were here on a nice day so not super busy, I'm sure peak times it can get hectic but there is a lot of square footage.

Great place to play with your kids. Giant bounce pillow, building blocks, toddler area and a wooden…read moreplayset with rock climbing walls and tire swing. Picnic area in the playground. Very clean and nice atmosphere

From the owner: You and your family will find over 8,000 square feet of fun at The Playground. With our exclusively…read moreindoor facility, your kids will be able to have engaging fun no matter what the weather outside looks like. With our giant bounce pillow, slides, and climbing ramp, there's no limit to how much fun children can have -- especially with their endless imaginations. We're here to make it easy to find a place for young ones to be physically active and have the time of their lives. As we like to say, every day is play day at The Playground.

Absolutely adorable. It's basically your opportunity to become Snow White for the day…read more This family-owned property is expansive, beautifully cared for, and filled with deer, goats, horses, moose, and more. The babies are ridiculously cute, the animals appear well cared for, and the customer service was exceptional. Our only complaint? Where is the summer membership?! We would buy one immediately. We will DEFINITELY be back.

We decided to go to Fawn Doe Rosa to celebrate my granddaughter's 7th birthday. We had a wonderful…read moretime and really enjoyed the many upgrades they have made since we were last there. They had some new buildings with educational areas and so me additional animals. There was an exhibit showing egg incubation as well as the differences in fur pelts from a variety of animals. We enjoyed seeing the new smaller animals that had been added since our last visit 6 years ago. While looking at the Elk, a worker offered to let us hold last year's alter rack. That was a highlight for my granddaughter. She also enjoyed feeding all the animals and the pony ride. It was such a fun way to spend the day!

It is Probably the smallest pork I've ever seen, but I've been coming here since I was little, so I…read morehave a lot of Nostalgia for this park. Things are in generally good condition, But some things can be iffy. The park also has a creek, which is good fun for minnow fishing.

Two acres of nice park along Highway 63, built by volunteers 1987. It has a non-functional…read morerotating Dutch windmill, playground, bathrooms, picnic tables, trees for shade on sunny days, grassy field, a creek running through it. It appears CLEAN and well cared for-the flowers are cared for and the bathrooms clean. It's a welcome place to stop. Psst...there's a secret bench hidden in the trees, surrounded by hostas-be sure to check it out!

Went here on Independence Day weekend due to recommendations I've received from locals. The actual…read moreviewing area for the animals is a little bit longer of a drive once you enter the park winding through the forest. Parking and admission is free but they do accept donations. They were a decent amount of animals to look at from birds to bears. The only downside is that the animal exhibits were only a few which isn't bad if you're three for picnics or exploring the forest/play on one of their various playgrounds. They do have a concession stand in their welcome center but doesn't look like much. All in all, a good place to spend a summer afternoon if you way to plan a picnic or do something outdoors as well as spend some time petting animals!

This is one of the best parks in the Midwest…read more The zoo is fun during the summer, with peacocks that are free to roam around the avian area. We spent a good couple of hours just watching them doing bird things, including ostentatious displays of power and mating ability. This year, we went in fall and the birds were away. We did see some bison behind a fence. It's quite amazing to be three feet away from them, something which you wouldn't be able to do safely in the wild. Further down the road, there are a couple of donated buildings: an early 20th century area school and a 19th century pioneer log home. The school is a particularly fine piece of architecture. Scattered through the park are many pavilions and covered picnic tables. It's a great park and zoo!

Although this place is amazing, very beautiful, but this place is so shady and so insecure for…read morepeople last night when we went there with the family the moment we parted, there was a huge bunch of people who came in different cars mostly African-American. People are not US based Somalians or somewhere from that side of the country Because I could not hear them talk properly. They were dealing with illegal drugs and the park was so dirty and nasty that you could see used condoms all over the place. If you're going with the family I strongly recommend you avoid this side of the park because it's not very safe. We feel really insecure and left that place although the park is very pretty we could have stayed longer, but we didn't feel safe with the amount of people coming in there with the law-enforcement can make rounds in this area. They can have a good check on what's going on in there

Here's a weird fact. When I lived in Rochester, I never dropped by Silver Lake Park. I always drove…read morearound it to get to and from my home to the downtown area and beyond. The only explanation that I can muster is that I had a park within walking distance from my home. I visited that park often that I didn't think of visiting others. After having a decent lunch on Saturday afternoon, I decided to drop by the park to finally check it out. There are a number of parking spots. I backed my car into an available spot and walked around. Rochester is unique in that it's the only city in Minnesota that has manmade lakes. I believe that the number of lakes in Rochester is in the double digits these days, but the lakes were designed for cooling. Specifically, Silver Lake cools the Rochester Public Utilities power plant. The park surrounds Silver Lake. You can get quite the workout walking around it. I walked maybe a quarter of it. I had spotted a swing that had enough space to comfortably seat two adults. There were indeed two people on it, so I decided to walk somewhere else. When I noticed that they were walking towards me, I headed over to the swing. I like a good swing. This one faces the lake and it was enjoyable taking in downtown Rochester and the view while swinging on it. There are geese in the area. They are known as Canadian honkers. They have longer necks than your traditional Canada goose, which I didn't know about until I learned that Canadian Honker, the restaurant in town, was named after it. Cool! If you do see these birds, you can feed them. There isn't a bylaw that says that you'll get fined for feeding them. During the Fourth of July, fireworks happen in this area. It's definitely a smaller version of the Victoria Day fireworks at Ashbridges Bay in the Beaches in Toronto, but it's pretty decent. I never watched it from the park, but admired the display from afar. This park has a memorial dedicated to fallen firefighters. I also like that each tree has a sign that identifies what you are looking at. It's a cool place to walk around, and learn and discover on your own. It was great getting to know this park instead of driving around its perimeter! I look forward to returning and checking out the rest of it. (140)