Dakota County residents can review and comment on two greenway plans at two meetings hosted by county officials in January. The first meeting is Tuesday, Jan. 15 from 6–8 p.m. at the Lebanon Hills Regional Park Visitor Center, 860 Cliff Road, Eagan.
Lebanon Hills Regional Park is offering not one, but two, cross-country ski classes in January.
Follow Mendota Heights Patch on Twitter | Like us on Facebook | Sign up for our free newsletter Want to take up cross-country skiing, but afraid that you'll wind up face-first in a snowbank? Lebanon Hills Regional Park in Eagan is offering not one but two opportunities in January to learn how to cross-country ski. The first class is a beginner cross-country ski lesson for ages 15 and older scheduled from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. on Jan. 12. The class is $25 per person, and equipment is provided. Click here to view the park's event calendar and register for the course. The second course, scheduled from 10 a.m. to noon on Jan. 27, is geared for children ages 6-9 years old. Registration is $15 per person, and equipment is provided. Click here to view…
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Dakota County residents can review and comment on two greenway plans at two meetings hosted by county officials in January.
Follow Mendota Heights Patch on Twitter | Like us on Facebook | Sign up for our free newsletter Editor's Note: The following is a press release from Dakota County. You can help shape the future of two greenway corridors in Dakota County—the Lake Marion-South Creek Greenway and the Mendota–Lebanon Hills Greenway—by attending an open house to review and comment on the plans. The open houses are part of the year-long master planning process for the two greenways. The open houses are scheduled Tuesday, Jan. 15 from 6–8 p.m. at the Lebanon Hills Regional Park Visitor Center, 860 Cliff Road, Eagan and Thursday, Jan. 24 from 6–8 p.m. at the Lakeville Water Treatment Facility, 18400 Ipava Ave., Lakeville. Review and provide feedback to the …
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Activities will likely include snowshoeing, hiking, sledding, s’mores at a bonfire and readings by a local storyteller, among other diversions.
Ring in 2013 at Lebanon Hills Regional Park's seventh annual family New Year's Eve Party. The party, scheduled from 5 to 8 p.m. at the Lebanon Hills Visitor Center in Eagan, is $10 per person at the door or $8 per person in advance. Children ages 5 and under are free. Activities include snowshoeing and hiking by candlelight; sledding on the lit sledding hill; s’mores at the bonfire; and readings by storyteller Roy Edward Power, magician Matt Dunn and live animals from Dakota Wild Animals. Participants can also welcome the New Year with a countdown and ball drop at 7:59 p.m. Hot concessions will be for sale and the snowshoe rental open. Bring your own sleds and ice skates. All ages are welcome. Click here for advanced registration.
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Hiking, candlelit ice skating and bonfires were among the activities at 'Ring in 2012' at Lebanon Hills Regional Park in Eagan Saturday night.
While plans are off the table for now, commissioners are evaluating the potential impact of additional pipeline through Lebanon Hills Regional Park.
Editor's Note: Dakota County Commissioner Tom Egan represents Mendota Heights, Lilydale, Mendota and a portion of Eagan. He was elected to office in 2004 and is now serving his second four-year term. Egan will write regularly to Patch readers about county government. Are you, your family or your friends among the 460,000 people who visited Dakota County's Lebanon Hills Regional Park this past year? Did you enjoy swimming at Schultz Beach, fishing, kayaking or boating on the park's lakes, walking, cross-country skiing or riding horse on the park's trails, utilizing the Visitor's Center or enjoying other aspects of this spectacular 2,000 plus acre park? If you have or plan to visit the park in the future, you may want to join the …
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Kerry Oliver
7:22 pm on Tuesday, December 13, 2011
No,no, no I do not support the construction of a pipeline through the park. There are the immediate effects of deforestation and disruption of the ecosystem of the park, but what about the potential for mainainence that may need to occur long term that would disrupt this again? Then there is also the problem of trying to regrow vegetation in that area. Some may be allowed, but I highly doubt that… more ›