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1: Promoting Pleasant Park Paddling <br />2: Mark Riverblood, Parks Supervisor. mriverblood(&,,ci.ramsey.mn.us Phone: 763 238 1733 <br />3: The Land of 10,000 Lakes includes 92,000 miles of streams, with all of the most <br />prominent water bodies in Minnesota touched by state, county, and municipal park and <br />trail systems. And indeed, the oldest trails in what is now Minnesota were vital water <br />routes used by indigenous peoples for millennia - followed later by Europeans leading us <br />into the nineteenth century, and then beyond to the technological age. <br />This project, Promoting Pleasant Park Paddling, bridges the span of time from the oldest <br />mode of human travel to the present - combining ancient technology with the ultra- modern; <br />to promote healthy recreation in a society where time, convenience and cost efficiency are <br />our most precious commodities or concerns. One of the costs we bear with overscheduled <br />lives is not making enough time for outdoor pursuits and physical activity. The Minnesota <br />Recreation and Park Foundation has an opportunity to address this by investing in the <br />health of its constituents with the Sunfish Lake Park canoe and kayak `self serve' system, <br />as a model for future replication. <br />