Battle Creek Park
Swimming Pond & Duck Pond
4 mi · ▲ 108 ft · 1 hr 23 min
Swimming Pond & Duck Pond is a 4-mile out-and-back in Battle Creek Park near Maplewood, MN. The route passes Duck Pond before reaching Swimming Pond at the turnaround, 1.9 miles in. It is mostly level, with 108 ft of elevation gain, and mostly paved. It scores 0/100 on the Ambleway Wildness scale: paved and peopled.
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Swimming Pond & Duck Pond
4 mi · ▲ 108 ft · 1 hr 23 min
Elevation 903–1,004 ft
Out & Back · Battle Creek Park
Trailhead: 44.96235, -93.00024
Weather Sep 24: sunrise 7:02 AM · sunset 7:08 PM
Transit-accessible: Bush Av stop 338 m from the trailhead · Parking lot at the trailhead
- Start at the trailhead, heading N.
- 200 ftTurn left, heading W.
- 0.2 miTurn left, heading S.
- 0.5 miTurn right, heading S.
- 50 ftTurn left, heading S.
- 0.3 miTurn right, heading S.
- 50 ftTurn left, heading S.
- 0.8 miPass Duck Pond.
- 0.3 miTurn right, heading S.
- 50 ftReach Swimming Pond, then turn around and head back the way you came.
- 50 ftTurn left, heading S.
- 1.1 miTurn right, heading N.
- 50 ftTurn left, heading N.
- 0.3 miTurn right, heading N.
- 50 ftTurn left, heading N.
- 0.5 miTurn right, heading N.
- 0.2 miTurn right, heading N.
- 50 ftArrive back at the trailhead.
Each distance is the walk from the previous step. Tap a step for a map of its junction.
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Weather
Sunset
The best sunset spot on this hike is 0.2 mi in (~5 min). Leave by 6:42 PM for the 7:08 PM sunset. Back at your car by 7:28 PM — 9 min before dark. Car visible from the viewpoint
Good to know
- Transit-accessible: Bush Av stop 338 m from the trailhead
- Parking lot at the trailhead
More from this trailhead
- Swimming Pond–Duck Pond, 5 sights 11.9 mi · ▲ 595 ft
- Indian Mounds Viewpoint–Swimming Pond, 7 sights 15.7 mi · ▲ 1,004 ft
- Carver’s Cave Overlook–Indian Mounds Viewpoint, 6 sights 12.6 mi · ▲ 894 ft
- Beaver Lake 2.3 mi · ▲ 26 ft
- Duck Pond 3.5 mi · ▲ 108 ft
- Sam Morgan Regional Viewpoint–Swimming Pond, 5 sights 11.1 mi · ▲ 908 ft
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