Trails at Your Pace

Trails at Your Pace are trails gentle, short trails that are created to make it more accessible for all types of people to get out and walk. Most all of these trails have a rest stop provided somewhere along their route.

Cottage Grove Ravine Regional Park

  • Trails at Your Pace Sign Opens in new windowA gentle, paved, roughly 2.0 mile, out-and-back trail
  • Benches available approximately every quarter mile
  • Starts at Ravine Landing. Access to water and restrooms within the building during lobby hours
  • Enjoy views of heavily wooded ravines with occasional clearings of old field and prairie
  • Map (PDF)

Hardwood Creek Regional Trail

  • A flat, paved, half-mile, out-and-back route
  • Begins at the Headwaters Transit Center (19987 Fitzgerald Trail N.)
  • Restrooms and water are available within the transit center
  • Multiple benches are available along the trail for resting
  • Map (PDF)

Lake Elmo Park Reserve

  • A gentle, paved, 1.0 mile, out-and-back trail
  • Begins at Eagle Point Trailhead
  • Water and restrooms available across the street at the Nordic Center
  • Bench located about halfway through the trail
  • Views of gently rolling hills of forest and prairie
  • Map (PDF)