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I grew up at this beach; made sandcastles, splashed timid people, listened to transistor radios with my friends while we tanned ourselves and slathered on copious amounts of baby oil, plus learned to swim, give cpr, do trick dives, also taught swimming lessons, and got lifeguard certified; found agates, made friends, made out with bad boys, fished, swamped our family canoe, caught frogs & turtles (which were ALWAYS returned back where we got them from by end of day: a family rule!...however with turtles sometimes they had a number painted on their back with nail polish for a carnival race ~ and sometimes found them again in following years!)
I even went ice fishing, ice skating and snowmobiling in Winter more than once!
As an adult, I came home from Chicago with my new husband (late 80s) for a visit and we went water-skiing for the first (& last) time ever! I'd tried getting up on them when younger, but wasn't strong enough, however I was in the best shape of my life at that time. This was my ONLY time ever actually getting up on waterskis, but I made the most of it, going around the lake 3 full times. The first time around, I dropped one ski and then skiied on a single ski the rest of the way ~ ~ the 2nd time around I went one-handed, casually waving to my family watching from the Joy Park side of the Lake like I was in a parade. The 3rd time, I had both hands outstretched, as if I were flying, and was holding the tow rope between my teeth. Just as I glanced to my right to make sure everyone saw me, I lost my balance, and went tumbling. I had envisioned doing my finish by dropping the rope handle and slowly gliding down into the water, but instead I fell backwards and got so much water up my nose from the momentum of still moving forward, that big long strings of snot that didn’t even look real were plastered to my face, hair, chest and arms once I was finally pulled back into the boat...And we still had to go looking for BOTH pieces of my swimsuit before delivering me back to my family. Very memorable. Hahaha!
I even went ice fishing, ice skating and snowmobiling in Winter more than once!
As an adult, I came home from Chicago with my new husband (late 80s) for a visit and we went water-skiing for the first (& last) time ever! I'd tried getting up on them when younger, but wasn't strong enough, however I was in the best shape of my life at that time. This was my ONLY time ever actually getting up on waterskis, but I made the most of it, going around the lake 3 full times. The first time around, I dropped one ski and then skiied on a single ski the rest of the way ~ ~ the 2nd time around I went one-handed, casually waving to my family watching from the Joy Park side of the Lake like I was in a parade. The 3rd time, I had both hands outstretched, as if I were flying, and was holding the tow rope between my teeth. Just as I glanced to my right to make sure everyone saw me, I lost my balance, and went tumbling. I had envisioned doing my finish by dropping the rope handle and slowly gliding down into the water, but instead I fell backwards and got so much water up my nose from the momentum of still moving forward, that big long strings of snot that didn’t even look real were plastered to my face, hair, chest and arms once I was finally pulled back into the boat...And we still had to go looking for BOTH pieces of my swimsuit before delivering me back to my family. Very memorable. Hahaha!
Nice place to hangout with families n friends. Nice BBQ grills and areas for BBQ. The best about it...the park allow alcohols
I took my niece yesterday and we had a great time. Clean and peaceful. We will be back before the summer ends.
Silver lake Park. Along silver lake. Silver lake Park is a very nice park. Silver lake Park is located in North St Paul I have went to silver lake Park since I was a kid I used to ride my bike up there and go fishing and swimming. Back in the '60s silver lake Park wasn't much of a park The house is on the one side of the lake their toilets flushed into the lake and there was a beach on the other side of the lake and not much else!. Silver lake silver poop but silver lake has come a long way since the early '60s they have restored the beachfront to natural and put a nice paved path around it with picnic tables here and there and pavilions and at the beach they have a bathroom with flushing toilets and running water and they have lifeguards now they never had lifeguard so it's silver lake when I was a kid!!!.... It's a very nice lake and neighborhood nowadays neighborhood neighborhood I grew up in this area the one side of the lake was Joy Park famous for people getting high back in the '80s same with like phalen back in the '80s... Silver lake has become a very respectable lake in modern days now that it's 2023 and we're talking early '60s for the poop incident enjoy swimming in silver lake Park Beach 3!..
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This is a great local family beach, park and fishing location!
We brought 3 “newer to fishing” teens here and they had a great time.
You can fish off the pier and catch sunnies or wade into the shallow water among the lily pads to attract some differing species.
There is a nice shaded pavilion with tables as well as bathroom facilities.
We brought 3 “newer to fishing” teens here and they had a great time.
You can fish off the pier and catch sunnies or wade into the shallow water among the lily pads to attract some differing species.
There is a nice shaded pavilion with tables as well as bathroom facilities.
Beautiful park and lake! Very nice playground for kids and many picnic tables. The walking oath is also very nice.
Nice fishing pier. Smells like fish around the lake pretty hard. Overall nice park with lots of benches and grill/table combos. No bathrooms that I saw. Playground nice for kids. Blue gill fishing is good.
