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2025 Calendar for Friends of Wolsfeld Woods

All activities will be confirmed and announced by email to members. Please check this website, www.wolsfeldwoods.org for possible changes.  All dates, times and locations are subject to change. Weather and COVID conditions may result in cancellations.

As you go through Wolsfed Woods
Help preserve the site
Take nothing but photographs
Leave nothing but footprints

Photos wanted!

As you wander through the woods, bring your camera along -- and be on the lookout for beautiful mature hardwoods, animals, birds, flowers and people on our walks. We'll post them on our Web site along with credits - please send in JPG format to: stephaniechapman763@gmail.com.

April

Frog Walk, DATE AND TIME CHANGE. Saturday, April 26th at 7:30 p.m. A good date night activity! Liz Weir will be leading the walk, and lets us hear a tape of different amphibian calls before we set off to listen to wood frogs, tree frogs, spring peepers and salamanders in the woods. Trinity Lutheran Church parking lot, 2060 Sixth Ave N, Long Lake, MN.

Frog or Toad

May

Spring Ephemeral Wildflower Walk, DATE CHANGE. Saturday, May 3rd at 10:30 a.m. Spring ephemerals bloom in that brief interval between the soil’s warming and the leafing of the dense tree canopy. An interpretive naturalist from the Lowry Nature Center will help us distinguish beautiful hidden blooms that often go unnoticed. Trinity Lutheran Church parking lot, 2060 Sixth Avenue North, Long Lake, MN.

Rue Anemone Plant

Spring Warbler Bird Walk, Saturday, May 17, 8:00 a.m. Bring your binoculars and bird books and join master birders, Bill and Esther Marengo, on Wolsfeld Woods’ annual spring warbler walk. We predict that Bill and Esther will find warblers for you to see and hear. Trinity Lutheran Church parking lot, 2060 Sixth Avenue North, Long Lake, MN.

Singing Bird

September

Fall Warbler Walk, Saturday, September 6, 8:00 a.m. Warblers are often plentiful during fall migration. Bill and Esther Marengo will be back to help sort out these delightful winged visitors as they pass through Minnesota every fall. Trinity Lutheran Church parking lot. 2060 Sixth Avenue North, Long Lake, MN.

Warbler Bird

Mushroom Walk, Saturday, September 13, at 10:00 a.m. Audrey Busch, a knowledgeable and enthusiastic member of the Minnesota Mycological Society will help us identify the many types of fall fungi growing on rotting logs, as well as shelf fungi sprouting from trees. Trinity Lutheran Church parking lot. 2060 Sixth Ave. N, Long Lake, MN.

Mushrooms
Photo by Andrew Dainelson

October

Fall Color Horseback Ride, Sunday, October 5 at 1:00 p.m. If you have access to a horse, please join us for the annual fall ride through the woods. We will meet at Ellie Crosby’s for a leisurely ride over the best woods trails for horses. 1612 Willow Drive, Long Lake, MN.

Horse and Rider

Friends of Wolsfeld Woods Annual Meeting, Wednesday, October 8, 7:00 p.m. We encourage participation, and appreciate hearing members’ thoughts and suggestions. We will meet at the West Hennepin History Center (1952 W. Wayzata Blvd, Long Lake, MN).

Activities Enjoyed This Year of 2025

History Presentation. The presentation was from our longtime member Bob Gasch about the history of the settlement of Wolsfeld Woods.

Making Maple Syrup. We watched the art of turning maple sap into syrup at the Crosbys’, just as the Wolsfeld family once did. We also enjoyed a scoop of vanilla ice cream drizzled with maple syrup.

Collecting Maple Syrup

Activities Calendar Last Updated: March 17, 2025