Temperance River State Park

The Temperance River State Park is a 2.18 square kilometer State Park. It is bordered on the east by Lake Superior in the U.S. state of Minnesota and is located north of Schroeder in Cook County. The park has an annual average of about 284,000 visitors.

Be first settlers of European origin settled in the territory of Temperance River as early as the 1830s; However, the river was named in 1864 by the State surveyor Thomas Clark.

The Temperance River State Park was established in 1957 as the official State Park.

The vegetation is now so natural, as the colonization of the region. The forests consist mainly of paper birch, yellow birch, spruce, cedar and fir trees.

The Superior Hiking Trail runs on the Temperance River along the outlying Carlton Peak and connects the area with seven other state parks in the coastal region.

The Park clues both molten basalt lava with an age of about a billion years and anorthosite rocks are seen.