Lebanon Hills Regional Park

Lebanon Hills Regional Park is a 2,000 acre (8 km²) Dakota County Park, located in Eagan, Minnesota and Apple Valley, Minnesota, that includes naturally preserved woodland and prairie. Winter activities include skiing, snowshoeing, ice skating, ice fishing, hiking, and winter mountain biking. Summer activities include mountain biking, canoeing, kayaking, swimming, camping, horseback riding, and hiking.

[edit] Lebanon Hills Regional Park Trail heads

Schulze Lake is located off Cliff Road in Eagan, MN. The visitor center is located in this area. The beach is open and is a popular site for swimming in the summer. In the winter the lake is plowed to create an ice skating rink and path around the lake.

The Horse Trailer lot is located on 120th Street off Dodd Road and is only open in the summer.

Holland Lake is located off Lexington Avenue and Cliff Road. There is a dock for fishing and canoes and kayaks are allowed on lake.

Jensen Lake is located off Pilot Knob Road and Carriage Hills Drive, and has a hiking trail loop just over 2 miles in length with connecting trails that join to Holland and Schulze Lake trails.

Mountain bike trails are situated at the west side of the park off of Johnny Cake Ridge Road in Eagan, MN. There are several miles of loops within the Lebanon Hills mountain bike trail system that provide a choice for beginners, intermediate and expert mountain bikers. The trails are mainly hard pack singletrack dirt trail and include several obstacles including roots, rock gardens, log piles, berms, bridges and jumps. The outer intermediate loop takes roughly one hour to finish. The trails are groomed and maintained by Minnesota Off-Road Cyclists (MORC). The trails are closed when the ground is wet to prevent damage to the trail surface. Current trail conditions are listed on MORC's website. The trail is open for night riding until 10:00 PM and winter riding when proper snow conditions exist. A new paved parking lot, changing rooms, bathrooms, a picnic area and a skills park were added in August 2012.

[edit] Lebanon Hills Campground

The Lebanon Hills Campground facilities with that range from open, groomed campsites with full hook-ups to private, wooded sites that are primitive in nature. Other features include on-site caretakers, accessible showers and restrooms, laundry, limited grocery and firewood sales and a sanitary dump station.

[edit] Gallery

One of the narrow wooden bridges on the advanced loop of the mountain bike trail
Schulze Lake
Portage Lake in early November
On the trail around Jensen Lake, late June around 6 pm
Cross country ski trails