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Blue Mounds State Park

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Blue Mounds State Park
Blue Mounds State Park
Blue Mounds State Park
Blue Mounds State Park
Blue Mounds State Park
Blue Mounds State Park
Blue Mounds State Park
Blue Mounds State Park
Blue Mounds State Park
Blue Mounds State Park
Blue Mounds State Park
Blue Mounds State Park
Blue Mounds State Park
Blue Mounds State Park
Blue Mounds State Park
Blue Mounds State Park
Blue Mounds State Park
Blue Mounds State Park
Blue Mounds State Park
Blue Mounds State Park
Blue Mounds State Park
Blue Mounds State Park
Blue Mounds State Park
Blue Mounds State Park
Blue Mounds State Park
Phone:
+1 507-283-6050

Address:
1410 161st St, Luverne, MN 56156, USA

Blue Mounds State Park is a state park of Minnesota, USA, in Rock County near the town of Luverne. It protects an American bison herd which grazes on one of the state's largest prairie remnants. The state park is named after a linear escarpment of Precambrian Sioux Quartzite bedrock, which although pink in color, is said to have appeared blueish in the distance to early settlers. Parts of the cliff are up to 100 feet high. Unusual in the surrounding prairie landscape, they are a popular site for rock climbing. The park also preserves a 1,250-foot-long line of rocks aligned by Plains Indians which marks where the sun rises and sets on the spring and fall equinoxes. It also has a small reservoir for swimming, the only lake in Rock County. The park's interpretive center was once the home of the author Frederick Manfred. Four structures and one building in the park, built by the Works Progress Administration in the 1930s, are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
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