Borrow free equipment

Minnesota State Parks birding kit

Try before you buy with our free loaner equipment!

 

Try out a new activity before you purchase all the necessary equipment, or check one out if you forgot your binoculars or fishing pole at home! Kits are first-come, first-served, and are available at the park's ranger station. Available equipment includes:

  • GPS units.
  • Kids Discovery kits: Activities and stories designed for children ages 5-12.
  • Fishing kits: Rod, reel and a stocked tackle box. Go fishing!
  • Birding kits: Binoculars, guide books and park-specific bird lists. Go birding!
 

GPS Units

Birding Kits

Fishing Kits

Kids Discovery Kits

Afton

Banning

Bear Head Lake

Beaver Creek Valley 

 

Big Bog SRA

Big Stone Lake

Blue Mounds 

Buffalo River

Camden

Cascade River 

 

Charles A. Lindbergh 

Crow Wing 

 

Cuyuna Country SRA 

 

Father Hennepin 

 

Flandrau

 

Forestville/Mystery Cave

Fort Ridgely

 

Fort Snelling 

Frontenac

Glacial Lakes

Glendalough

Gooseberry Falls

 

Grand Portage

 

Great River Bluffs 

 

Hayes Lake

Interstate

Itasca 

Jay Cooke

Judge C.R. Magney 

 

Lac qui Parle

Lake Bemidji

 

Lake Bronson

Lake Carlos

Lake Maria

 

Lake Shetek

Lake Vermilion-Soudan Underground Mine 

 

Maplewood

McCarthy Beach

Mille Lacs Kathio 

 

Minneopa

 

Moose Lake 

Myre-Big Island

 

Nerstrand Big Woods

 

Red River SRA

Rice Lake 

 

St. Croix

Sakatah Lake

Savanna Portage

Scenic 

Sibley

Split Rock Creek

 
Split Rock Lighthouse

 

Temperance River 

Tettegouche 

Whitewater 

  
Wild River

William O'Brien

 
Zippel Bay

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