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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