Hunt #1 - Outdoor Fireplace

Can you find the outdoor fireplace? Hint, it's near the Visitor Center.

Hunt #2 - Dandelion

Dandelions are important food for bees and butterflies. They are one of the earliest flowers to bloom in the spring and provide food for bees and butterflies before other sources of pollen and nectar are available.

Hunt #3 - Mushroom

Did you know the Minnesota State Mushroom is the Morel Mushroom?

Mushrooms come in all shapes and sizes and colors. Look carefully in the woods, near dead wood, logs and stumps.

Hunt# 4 - Evergreen Tree

Evergreen trees like pine, spruce and cedars stay green all year long. Evergreen trees provide numerous benefits to the environment and surrounding wildlife. The dense foliage of these trees provides shade and a habitat for birds and small animals. They also produce seeds from their cones that many birds and wildlife eat.

Hunt #5 - Birds

140 species of birds, including kinglets, spruce grouse, many northern warblers as well as northern owls, finches, wood-peckers, and water birds, are common in Tettegouche State Park.

Some of the most recognizable birds are the Robin, Blue Jay, Chickadee and Crow.

The pigment in Blue Jay feathers is melanin, which is brown. The blue color is caused by scattering light through modified cells on the surface of the feather barbs.

The Black-capped Chickadee hides seeds and other food items to eat later. Each item is placed in a different spot and the chickadee can remember thousands of hiding places.

American Crows usually feed on the ground and eat almost anything – typically earthworms, insects and other small animals, seeds, and fruit but also garbage, carrion, and chicks they rob from nests.

Although robins are considered harbingers of spring, many American Robins spend the whole winter in their breeding range. But because they spend more time roosting in trees and less time in your yard, you're much less likely to see them.

Hunt #6 - Insect

The four-spotted skimmer is found across much of the northern hemisphere.

Monarch Butterfly

Mosquitoes are abundant at certain times of the year and most abundant in cooler, shady parts of the forest, as well as in the evening and into the first couple of hours of darkness. These biting insects become less abundant through the night, although they do not disappear entirely. Covering up with clothing, such as a bug jacket, and applying insect repellent, as directed, offers good protection from the bite of mosquitoes.

Black flies seem to be most abundant on hot, humid spring days but are typically common throughout this mid-May to late June flight period. Covering up with clothing, such as a bug jacket, and applying insect repellent, as directed, offers some deterrent to the biting of black flies.

Hunt #7 - Chipmunk or Squirrel

Notice the squirrels big bushy tail and no stripes on the body.

Notice that the chipmunk has stripes on his body and a small/skinny tail.

Hunt #8 - Spider Web

A spider web is a sticky net that spiders make from silk to trap their prey. When insects fly or crawl into the web, they get stuck and the spider eats them. Most spider webs are very thin, but are also very strong. Different kinds of spiders make different types of webs. Spiders make different webs in different places to trap many kinds of prey.

Hunt #9 - Hiker

Did you know there are 23 miles of trails in Tettegouche State Park? The trails will take you to high cliffs along the Lake Superior shoreline, along the Baptism River and to 3 scenic waterfalls plus loops that wind around interior lakes.

Hunt #10 - Waterfall(s)

Did you know that Tettegouche State Park has 4 waterfalls?

• The Cascades
• Two Step Falls
• High Falls - at 63 ft. is the highest waterfall contained entirely within Minnesota
• The 40-foot Illgen Falls