Wednesday, June 18, The Walking Lake Pepin (WLP) group walk explored Colvill Park in Red Wing, MN.
Colvill Park was named after Colonel William Colvill who led the 1st Minnesota Volunteer infantry in the Battle of Gettysburg. He was Minnesota Attorney General from 1866 to 1868, served in the Minnesota of House of Representatives and the first man from Goodhue County to volunteer when the civil war broke out.
The weather cooperated last week and many of the WLP participants who had never been to the park enjoyed the view of the Mississippi river, the giant cottonwood trees and the well-groomed green space on the 1-mile walking trail.
The Park is the home to the Red Wing Water Park, a universal play park, a marina, the Discovery garden, many picnic shelters and the Courtyard event center that can be rented for events.
It was quite the "spectacle" as you can see from the photo as the walkers posed by “The Spectacles” art sculpture.
The Lions Club, well known for its eyeglasses recycling program, donated the
sculpture entitled 'Spectacles' to the City on June 25th 2017 in celebration of the 100th anniversary of the organization's founding.
Next Wednesday June 25 at 6:30 the WLP group will meet at the new pavilion at Ohuta Park and take a stroll along the Marina and out onto the outer harbor breakwater.
Come join us. All are welcome.
There will be no WLP group walk on Wednesday July 2 due to the 4th of July holiday.
For more information on WLP see the website, walkinglakepepin.com, the WLP Facebook page and weekly updates in the Lake City Graphic.
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