Roseville: Nature, Trails, and Recreation

Roseville brings together a variety of reasons to stay: trails through forests and wetlands, landscaped gardens, concerts, and ice sports and golf. If you’re looking for a hotel in Roseville, it helps to first decide what you want to focus on. Local offerings vary in landscape and timing—from a large park with connected areas to concerts during the summer months.

Parks and Trails on Different Scales

The 225-acre Central Park is divided into six areas connected by walking and biking trails. Along Lexington Avenue in the heart of Roseville, bike trails and lit walking paths run around Bennett Lake. When planning, you can take into account both the connected park areas and the paths around the lake.

The Harriet Alexander Nature Center is located within Central Park. Its 52-acre wetland and forest area is crisscrossed by boardwalks and trails. These acreage figures refer to different scales: the Nature Center area and the entire park. The Center offers camps, classes, and other nature programs for all ages; individual programs may vary. For a different landscape, Reservoir Woods is a 115-acre park. There, you can walk for long stretches through rolling terrain; numerous pine trees, wetlands, prairie grasses, and savanna shape the landscape.

The eight-acre Muriel Sahlin Arboretum adds a garden-focused touch to Central Park. Its features include themed gardens, landscaped grounds, trails, a fountain, and architectural elements. Together with the Nature Center’s wetland and forest area, it gives the same park a striking range of settings, from landscaped gardens to a larger natural area.

Concerts, Ice Sports, and Golf

The Frank Rog Amphitheatre is located on the shore of Bennett Lake. Free concerts take place there on most Sundays and Thursdays in June, July, and August. Dates and programming may change; if you want to plan your trip around a concert, check the specific date in advance.

The Roseville Skating Center offers a different kind of recreation, including an indoor ice arena, North America’s largest refrigerated ice surface, and an outdoor skate park. This combination sets the facility apart from an outing focused on trails, parks, or gardens, and gives you a specific option to consider when planning a sports-focused stay.

Golf is another option in Roseville. Cedarholm Golf Course is a nine-hole, par-3 course. Golfers of all ages and skill levels can regularly play a round there in less than two hours. The activities differ in their timing: concerts take place during the summer months and on specific dates, while a round at Cedarholm offers a regular time frame of under two hours.

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