Lake Trail is packed not tracked and in good-fair Condition. Lights off. No Rentals. No pass needed. Visitor Center open 9am-5pm.

(Sonja Bercich, Three Rivers Park District)

Skated before lunch. Conditions were just as good as Wirth. Only the lake and a section of trail going towards the grooming shed is open, for about 4km of relatively flat skate deck. Not much of classic track. Should be okay tonight under the lights after dark, and excellent tomorrow morning (assuming they groom).

(Andor Langski)

Rolled around the lake. Not real even so they must have rolled it once over deep snow. But it's mid-April -later than I've ever seen any grooming in these parts - so I'm skiing and not complaining!

(Pete Thurmes)

Solid! No tracks but good solid rolled trail around the lake. A skis would be fine for now. I'm going back out to skate, which should work a little better. Snow is nicely packed and not at all slushy anywhere except one small low spot that's easy to get around.

(Pete Thurmes)

Lake Trail is open; packed and in good condition for skating. Lights on until 10 pm. XC Ski Pass not needed. No rentals. Visitor Center Hours 9am - 5pm.

(Sonja Bercich, Three Rivers Park District)

If you do venture out to Hyland, you'll find the parking lot empty and once you are on the trail you'll realize why. With yesterdays warmup, and todays very cold temps, trail was rutted with snowshoers, walkers, runners, deer, some large bird prints I couldn't identify but reminded me somewhat of a velociraptor, and possibly a large dog/coyote/wolf (?) and some apparent skier wipeouts. There are classic tracks but they were too narrow for me and icy. It does give you a huge respect for what the groomers do because I was imagining how a Pisten Bully might just even out all the dips and peaks and vastly improve the skiing. Might be ok skiing once it warms up and softens the snow a bit, or if there is fresh snow.

(Robert Sullivan)

My first Blue Extra wax day of the season at Hyland! Skied up to the Boulder Ridge trail (following John Horn's tracks?) where I had a deer running across the trail right in front of me. I saw that the the lifts were not running at the downhill area; seems a real shame to see all that fresh powder not being put to good use. I had my own runs through the powder down the Boulder Ridge hill. All and all it was great skiing in the sunshine with lots of snow.

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(Geir Johansen)

Great backcountry ski morning at Hyland. 6" of cold fresh powder in April?! Set track from the Nordic center to the ski hill and back. Threw in a few tele descents on the North and South summits. Amazing ski day in MN! Would have posted a few photos but the iPhone froze up. Get after it while we have it!

(John Horns)

Skated a loop at Hyland. Not worth the drive. Zero grooming recently made for slow, rough trails. Which is too bad because 28F and daylight is so much better than all the dark sub-zero mornings and evenings we had in January and February. Classic might be good once a few others break trail.

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(Andor Langski)

Conditions were good. Classic skied all but the small loop by chalet. Greased lightening. Purple and Brown Rex Klister layered worked best.

(Greg Klave)