Activities

Our Park employs has something for everyone and the activities different every weekend. But some of our regular ones are The Medallion Hunt, Pot Luck Karaoke, Bingo, 4th of July Parade, early Halloween, Minnow Races, Christmas in July, Popcorn nights, Coloring sheets , cupcake decorating and many more.

Find the Trolls in Detroit Lakes – its kind of like a scavenger hunt, Start your “troll adventure” in the DL City Park at the troll named Alexa’s Elixer.

Read the storybook that is with her there. A digital copy of the story book is displayed on the website.
Follow the steps to solve the riddles to find the trolls.

When you find each troll, look at the necklace around its neck. The necklace has a number on it and a symbol. The symbol corresponds to a letter in the troll alphabet cited in the book on Page 4. The number corresponds to the placement order of the letter in a word.

When you collect all the letters from the troll necklaces and put them in the right order, it will spell a word. That word reveals the name of the symbol on the map on Page 4 of the story. This symbol signifies where the hidden secret Golden Rabbit is located.

Detroit Mountain offers mountain biking trails for riders of all skill levels during the warm months and downhills and cross country skiing in the winter. They also host several events and Music on the Mountain has some well known bands frequently.

Maplewood State Park offers some beautiful scenery, hiking trails, finish boating and swimming.

The Pelican Paddle Company in Pelican Rapids rents kayaks so you can Paddle the Pelican River

Floating down the Ottertail River, just east of Detroit Lakes on a tube from Charlies or K&K tubing is a lot of fun and can be very relaxing