Sunday's Site - General Mills Nature Preserve, Golden Valley

NOTE: see the bottom of Sunday's Site posts for homes for sale in the area

Yesterday I walked the General Mills Nature Preserve in Golden Valley after listing a condo in a complex that borders it. I couldn't help wonder how many people don't even realize it exists. I know I probably wouldn't know about were it not for the condo complex next to the preserve at the southeast corner of Highway 169 and Highway 55...by General Mills and near KARE11-TV.

I have driven by this nature preserve countless times without appreciating its signficance...without recognizing how rare it is to have a significant nature preserve recently created in an inner-ring suburb just minutes from downtown.

General Mills Nature Preserve was dedicated in 2007, the result of a collaborative effort between the City of Golden Valley and General Mills, which is headquartered in Golden Valley, Minnesota. The preserve was developed on 19 acres of land General Mills had purchased in 1950 for future office development. They donated it to the city to create the nature preserve to help improve drainage and control flooding through floodplain storage and wetland mitigation.

More than 50 different native species were planted and seeded to create deep marsh habitat, shallow marsh habitat, wet meadow habitat and floodplain forest habitat. A permanent conservation easement through the Minnesota Land Trust guarantees this site will be forever preserved as a nature area.

  
As I saw the condo complex peeking behind the trees across the wetlands I couldn't help think about what a wonderful gift it is to the people who live there. Not only do they have nature views...not only can they walk out from their parking lot to the trails of the preserve...they are also guaranteed that it will always be there. This natural and scenic heritage will be preserved for generations to come.

Click here to see homes currently for sale in the area around General Mills Nature Preserve and near Brookview Park/Golf Course in Golden Valley, MN. Please be patient while the link searches for the most current listings...click on the map to zoom in until you see icons on the dots, then pass your cursor over them for property information, click for property details. 

Sharlene Hensrud, RE/MAX Results - Email - HomesMSP.com

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Comments

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Thanks for sharing this links, this place has done a lot of changes since before.

Mitch

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That we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone, that we are more deeply inserted into existence than the course of a single life would lead us to believe.

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As I saw the condo complex peeking behind the trees across the wetlands I couldn't help think about what a wonderful gift it is to the people who live there. Not only do they have nature views...not only can they walk out from their parking lot to the trails of the preserve...they are also guaranteed that it will always be there. This natural and scenic heritage will be preserved for generations to come.

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I have driven by this nature preserve countless times without appreciating its signficance...without recognizing how rare it is to have a significant nature preserve recently created in an inner-ring suburb just minutes from downtown.

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A National Park in Ohio? Who woulda thunk it?

Actually tho', the dreamers who envisioned the opening of the west by using canals to create commerce trails, really did a service to our young nation. It's good to see this history preserved and cared for.

Thank you for the narrative.