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:
- From Mounds park, go east on Burns Ave.
- 0.6 miles: Cross hwy 61 and turn right on Upper Afton Road (right after the highway)
- 1.6 miles: Turn right on Battle Creek Rd.
- 2.5miles: Left on Lower Afton Rd, becomes Valley Creek Rd at mile 4.2.
- 10.28 miles: Turn right at the tee to Manning Ave
- 12.2 miles: Left at stop sign on to 95
- 16.4 miles: Right at stop sign onto 21 in Afton
- 27.7 miles: Right at stop sign onto 10 (Point Douglas Road)
- 30.2 miles: Left onto 61
- 32.4 miles: Right onto 55
- 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.
- 32.9 miles: Right onto 61
- 33.6 miles: Left onto 291
- 34.8 miles: Right at stop sign onto 54
- 42 miles: Left at tee on to 68 (200th St. E.) – watch for gravel. Road becomes 18 at the end of the gravel.
- 51.2 miles: Right at tee onto 61
- 52.6 miles: Left onto 7 (Welch Village Rd)
- 60.9 miles: Left at stop sign onto 19
- 68.1 miles: Right onto 61
- 72.4 miles: Right onto W. End Ave.
- 72.6 miles: Right onto Fifth
- 72.7 miles: Right first opportunity onto Cleveland
- 72.8 miles: Left first opportunity onto Grandview (becomes Harrison)
- 73 miles: Left onto Sixth, continue up the hill
- 73.9 miles: Left onto College – steep hill (becomes Seventh)
- 74.4 miles: Left onto East (becomes Broad at Main)
- 74.8 miles: Cross tracks and turn left onto Levee
- 75.4 miles: Right at Bay Point Park sign