Lake Susan Preserve Beach & Bluff Creek via Bluff Creek Local Trail
8.2 mi · ▲ 135 ft · 2 hr 48 min
Lake Susan Preserve Beach & Bluff Creek via Bluff Creek Local Trail is an 8.2-mile out-and-back in Bandimere Community Park near Shakopee, MN. The route passes Lake Susan Preserve Beach before reaching Bluff Creek at the turnaround, 3.9 miles in. It is mostly level, with 135 ft of elevation gain, and mostly paved. It scores 0/100 on the Ambleway Wildness scale: paved and peopled.
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Lake Susan Preserve Beach & Bluff Creek via Bluff Creek Local Trail
8.2 mi · ▲ 135 ft · 2 hr 48 min
Out & Back · Bandimere Community Park
Trailhead: 44.82595, -93.53363
Weather Sep 22: Partly cloudy, high 65°F / low 48° · precip 1% · wind 5 mph · sunrise 7:02 AM · sunset 7:14 PM
Parking lot at the trailhead
- Start at the trailhead, heading NE.
- 200 ftSharp left, heading W.
- 0.7 miTurn left, heading W.
- 250 ftTurn right, heading N.
- 250 ftBear left, heading N.
- 50 ftBear right, heading NW.
- 250 ftTurn right, heading N.
- 50 ftSharp left, heading N.
- 100 ftSharp left, heading N.
- 50 ftSharp right, heading N.
- 150 ftSharp right, heading NE.
- 150 ftTurn left, heading NW.
- 50 ftTurn right, heading NW.
- 0.2 miTurn left, heading N.
- 1.5 miPass Lake Susan Preserve Beach.
- 450 ftTurn left, heading N.
- 0.4 miTurn left, heading W.
- 50 ftTurn right, heading W.
- 0.1 miBear right, heading W.
- 0.1 miTurn left, heading SW.
- 0.3 miSharp right, heading W.
- 250 ftTurn left, heading SW.
- 0.2 miPass Bluff Creek.
- 250 ftContinue straight onto Bluff Creek Local Trail, heading S.
- 0.1 miReach Lake Susan Preserve Beach, then turn around and head back the way you came.
- 0.4 miTurn right, heading N.
- 250 ftSharp left, heading S.
- 0.3 miTurn right, heading E.
- 0.1 miBear left, heading SE.
- 0.1 miTurn left, heading N.
- 50 ftTurn right, heading N.
- 0.4 miTurn right, heading N.
- 1.6 miTurn right, heading E.
- 0.2 miTurn left, heading E.
- 50 ftTurn right, heading E.
- 150 ftSharp left, heading E.
- 150 ftSharp left, heading E.
- 50 ftSharp right, heading E.
- 50 ftSharp right, heading E.
- 100 ftTurn left, heading E.
- 200 ftBear left, heading E.
- 50 ftBear right, heading E.
- 250 ftTurn left, heading E.
- 250 ftTurn right, heading E.
- 0.7 miSharp right, heading S.
- 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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Good to know
- Parking lot at the trailhead
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