Redwing Scenic Tour and Picnic

Originally a Jaguar club event in 1988, this is a backroads tour from St. Paul to Bay Point Park in Redwing, MN. Start at Mounds Park: Thorn and Mounds Blvd in St. Paul, several blocks southeast of hwys 94 and 61.

Note: route may include gravel

Directions:

  1. From Mounds park, go east on Burns Ave.
  2. 0.6 miles: Cross hwy 61 and turn right on Upper Afton Road (right after the highway)
  3. 1.6 miles: Turn right on Battle Creek Rd.
  4. 2.5miles: Left on Lower Afton Rd, becomes Valley Creek Rd at mile 4.2.
  5. 10.28 miles: Turn right at the tee to Manning Ave
  6. 12.2 miles: Left at stop sign on to 95
  7. 16.4 miles: Right at stop sign onto 21 in Afton
  8. 27.7 miles: Right at stop sign onto 10 (Point Douglas Road)
  9. 30.2 miles: Left onto 61
  10. 32.4 miles: Right onto 55
  11. 32.6 miles: Rest stop – take the 2nd left opportunity to go straight on 11th, then right onto Walnut. Right turn at stop sign to return to 55.
  12. 32.9 miles: Right onto 61
  13. 33.6 miles: Left onto 291
  14. 34.8 miles: Right at stop sign onto 54
  15. 42 miles: Left at tee on to 68 (200th St. E.) – watch for gravel. Road becomes 18 at the end of the gravel.
  16. 51.2 miles: Right at tee onto 61
  17. 52.6 miles: Left onto 7 (Welch Village Rd)
  18. 60.9 miles: Left at stop sign onto 19
  19. 68.1 miles: Right onto 61
  20. 72.4 miles: Right onto W. End Ave.
  21. 72.6 miles: Right onto Fifth
  22. 72.7 miles: Right first opportunity onto Cleveland
  23. 72.8 miles: Left first opportunity onto Grandview (becomes Harrison)
  24. 73 miles: Left onto Sixth, continue up the hill
  25. 73.9 miles: Left onto College – steep hill (becomes Seventh)
  26. 74.4 miles: Left onto East (becomes Broad at Main)
  27. 74.8 miles: Cross tracks and turn left onto Levee
  28. 75.4 miles: Right at Bay Point Park sign