Douglas County Parks

Spruce Hill County Park

Spruce Hill is home to our mushroom forest. The mushroom forest was named by the preschool forest school children and holds a special place in our hearts! You have to go to the mushroom forest to be able to really feel the magic it holds! 

Spruce Hill is full of winding trails where we enjoy hunting for giant puffball mushrooms, looking for bird pellets, and investigating rotten logs. 

A small creek runs through Spruce Hill and the children enjoy playing under the bridge and near the creek edges looking for frogs. 

Kensington Runestone Park

Kensington Runestone Park is the largest of the Douglas County Parks. The park offers a large variety of landscape for our forest campers to explore; prairie, pond, lake, and forest. 

In the fall we enjoy walking on the leafy trails, popping corn dogs (cattails) and jumping in the small stream of water found near the park's really neat peninsula and boardwalk.

Winter will bring sledding, boot skating on the pond, and snowshoeing on the many trails. We have the luxury of a heated building to take refuge in during the extremely cold days winter has in store for us.

Lake Brophy County Park

Situated on beautiful Lake Brophy, this county park has so much to offer our Wild Rumpus and forest school students!

Hilly trails, lakeside investigations, fishing, and prairie discovery are all things we look forward to during our time at our area’s newest county park!