Manufactured snow trails (currently 3.5 K) are groomed overnight every night by our amazing groomers! Manufactured snow trails: Star, Willow Creek and Frog Town, are packed and tracked are in good condition. The trails with natural snow are packed, not tracked. Lake Trail is in fair condition; Hill, Oak Knob, part of North and nature center trails are in good condition. HS Meets this week, Today, Wed. Dec. 7, 3:30 pm-5pm and Thurs. Dec. 8, 2 races: 9am - 10:30am and 3:45pm- 5pm.

(Sonja Bercich, Three Rivers Park District)

Manmade was perfect this morning for skate. Fast and no ice. Classic looked great too. Snow guns blasting Scenic and beyond.

(Taylor Forsyth)

At 8 am we skate skied the Lake and Hill natural snow trails. As you might expect, the Lake trail received a lot of traffic last weekend. But on a scale of 1-10 with 10 being pristine, I still give Lake trail a 6 rating. However, we did not ski the segment of Lake along the south shore of Hyland Lake because we veered off and skied Hill trail. Using the same scale, I give Hill trail an 8 rating. On Lake and Hill trails you can use rock and B skis respectively. I did not see any classic tracks set. Thank you for all of the hard work trail grooming. You are doing a great job. I am spoiled to be skiing this early this year.

(Paul Pasko)

Frog Town is now open! Thanks to Hyland maintenance crew. 3.2 K manufactured snow yrails are now open. 12 K of trails with natural snow open, packed, not tracked and in fair condition. HS Meets this week: Tues, Wed. Thurs 3pm - 5:30pm.

(Sonja Bercich, Three Rivers Park District)

Oh happy day. Another k has been added to the trail as it is now groomed and tracked through Frog town. Perfect conditions out on the man made snow loop this morning.

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(Scott Greymont)

Snowmaking loops are excellent, though still less than half open.
Natural snow around the Lake Trail was fair. Hard packed and pretty fast. Just a few tiny bare spots, easily avoided. Quite a few leaves and twigs, but these didn't affect the skate skis too much. Kind of uneven due to shallow snow coverage, and challenging to get edging in some places because it was so hard packed. But overall, lots of fun!

(Craig Wiklund, North Star Ski Touring Club)

Skied the man-made snow loop. Classic tracks were in good condition though a little icy. Would be nice to have two sets of tracks as they were fairly congested on the hills. Skate deck was firm and maybe a little bit too hard.

(Rick Vatsaas)

Manmade snow trails are smooth and fast. Natural snow trails are leafy and twiggy. Both generate winter joy!

(Ernie Ogot)

Warm up by XC skiing! Manufactured snow trails, Star and Willow (1.6 K), are packed, tracked and in good condition. Trails relying on natural snow (10K) have been packed and not tracked, fair to good. HS Meets begin Tues. Dec.6- Thurs. Dec.8; 3 pm - 5:30pm. The Hyland maintenance crew are hard at work making snow overnight and during the day when temps are less than 19F degrees!

(Sonja Bercich, Three Rivers Park District)

Start with a caveat good skis are fine for the man made trails. Recommend B skis for around the lake. Classic skied around the Lake trail for a change of scenery and there are lots of areas with gravel sticking through (rolled but no tracks). Most is avoidable. Snow guns north of Willow were blowing this morning.

(Scott Greymont)