{"id":27,"date":"2014-10-20T03:56:53","date_gmt":"2014-10-20T03:56:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ci.mcintosh.mn.us\/?page_id=27"},"modified":"2017-03-20T14:59:29","modified_gmt":"2017-03-20T19:59:29","slug":"visit","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ci.mcintosh.mn.us\/?page_id=27","title":{"rendered":"Visit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h1><strong>Parks<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>McIntosh City Park: 218-563-3043\u00a0\u00a0 Camping, dump station, electrical hook-ups, cable TV, flush toilets, showers, handicapped accessible.\u00a0 Picnic area, ball field, volleyball, and playground. \u00a0Groceries are available uptown or at the gas station which is open on weekends and evenings.\u00a0 Fishing and ice fishing available at Hill River Lake 5 mi. NW of McIntosh.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>Summer Recreation<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>The summer recreation program begins approximately the first week of June, and runs for eight weeks.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ci.mcintosh.mn.us\/mcintoshsummerrecform.htm\">Summer recreation registration form<\/a>.\u00a0 Field trips are scheduled throughout the eight-week program.<\/p>\n<p>Games are as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mites &amp; Midgets \u2013 Mondays<\/li>\n<li>PeeWees \u2013 Tuesdays<\/li>\n<li>Bantams &amp; Ponies \u2013 Thursdays<\/li>\n<li>Cadets \u2013 Thursdays<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Kloster Park is played every Wednesday, this is a pitching machine league and includes participants from surrounding communities.\u00a0 Players will be drafted on teams and play a 5 week regular season, concluding with the World Series the end of July.\u00a0 There are 2 age groups for boys and girls, 9-11 and 12-14.<\/p>\n<h1><strong> Other Campgrounds<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>There are several campgrounds in the surrounding area.\u00a0 They include Farmer&#8217;s Union Campground, Lake Cameron RV Park and Campground, Union Lake Sarah Campground.\u00a0 More on these listings in the <a title=\"Camping\/Motels\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ci.mcintosh.mn.us\/?page_id=31\">Campground\/Motel<\/a> page.<\/p>\n<h1><strong>Golf<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>Area public courses to explore:\u00a0 Oak Lake Golf Course in Erskine, Fosston Golf Course, Sand Hill River Golf Course in Fertile, Oak Knolls Golf Course in Red Lake Falls.\u00a0\u00a0 All golf courses in the area are listed at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.visitnwminnesota.com\/tourismdirectory.htm\" target=\"_blank\"> www.visitnwminnesota.com\/tourismdirectory.htm<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h1><strong>Winter Recreation<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>Our snowmobile club is &#8220;Polar Beach Snowmobile Club sponsors and maintains the following trails:\u00a0 Nicholas trail to Brooks, Whitetail trail to Winger and Sleepy Hollow trail to Trail.\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sledcity.com\" target=\"_blank\">www.sledcity.com<\/a>\u00a0 A scanned version of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ci.mcintosh.mn.us\/mcintoshsnowtrails.htm\">trails<\/a> around McIntosh and the route snowmobiles need to take <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ci.mcintosh.mn.us\/mcintoshsnowroute.htm\">traveling through the city<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h1><strong>Major Area Recreation<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>Fertile Sand Hills Recreation Area:\u00a0 Located one mile east of Fertile.\u00a0 Ten miles of hiking and cross country ski trails along the Sand Hill River and through the Fertile Sand Hills.\u00a0 Trail maps available at the Fertile Community Center and on-site.<\/p>\n<p>Chicog Wildlife Management Area:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dnr.state.mn.us\/wmas\/index.html\"> www.dnr.state.mn.us\/wmas\/index.html<\/a>\u00a0 1,624 acre example of some of Minnesota&#8217;s remaining mesic prairie.\u00a0 Winter opportunities include exploration by snowshoe and cross country skiing.\u00a0 Spring and fall brings migrating cranes.\u00a0 Location is 11 miles SE of Crookston on MN Hwy 102 to Melvin then 1 mile S on township road.<\/p>\n<p>Other entries . . . . <a href=\"http:\/\/www.visitnwminnesota.com\/tourismdirectory.htm\"> www.visitnwminnesota.com\/tourismdirectory.htm<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.org\">www.nature.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Parks McIntosh City Park: 218-563-3043\u00a0\u00a0 Camping, dump station, electrical hook-ups, cable TV, flush toilets, showers, handicapped accessible.\u00a0 Picnic area, ball field, volleyball, and playground. \u00a0Groceries are available uptown or&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-27","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ci.mcintosh.mn.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ci.mcintosh.mn.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ci.mcintosh.mn.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ci.mcintosh.mn.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ci.mcintosh.mn.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.ci.mcintosh.mn.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":273,"href":"https:\/\/www.ci.mcintosh.mn.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27\/revisions\/273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ci.mcintosh.mn.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}