This weekend at Devil’s Lake State Park the Aldo Leopold Half-Marathon and 5K run will take place. You can expect about 500 back country runners to be screaming along the trails.

For a bit of family fun you can head over to Mirror Lake State Park from 6:30 -8:30 pm for their annual Halloween Hike. This is a great time for families. There is a torch-lit 1 mile trail through the woods, 2 big bonfires and lots of food. I wrote a bit more about the Halloween Hike here.

Funny thing. I was just reading the Fall Colors comment over on the “official” conditions page. I realized that I had totally missed guessing at the state of the colors by “Grandpa’s bunions or the width of the band around a wool worm’s middle”. Well, that’s why they are the experts!!