Park Planning

Planning plays an essential role in managing all aspacts of park operation. Listed below are park planning documents, some of which can be quite large. For current planning activities visit Public Involvement. Please call the park at 715-483-2274 for copies of the following documents.

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The General Management Plan: Upper St. Croix and Namekagon Rivers (1998)

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Cooperative Management Plan: Lower St. Croix National Sceinc Riverway (2002)

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Final Cooperative Management Plan Environmental Impact Statement Lower St. Croix National Scenic Riverway (2001). This document guides the management of the Riverway from St. Croix Falls to Prescott, Wisconsin, an area managed by both the National Park Sevice and the States of Minnesota and Wisconsin. This document is a 9MB pdf file.

Record of Decision. This is the document actually signed by the partners in the Cooperative Management Plan(CMP) and includes any final modifications made to the CMP.

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The Long Range Interpretive Plan (2005) provides direction for St. Croix NSR's Educational Partnership Team for the next 10 years. It describes where we were at in 2004 and what we would like to accomplish by 2015. It includes working with community groups, schools and other agencies to achieve relevant public programming and to provide facilities that benefit the public and the resources they highlight.

Introduction and Executive Summary

Foundation or current program

Future Goals

Appendices

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The National Park Service (NPS) has adopted new strategies for managing camping on NPS-administered lands on the Lower St. Croix National Scenic Riverway. Alternative 3a from the draft Lower River Camping Management Plan (2007) will be implemented on the 22-mile stretch of river north of the High Bridge, or essentially from St. Croix Falls/Taylors Falls to the High Bridge. Elements of 3a will also be implemented south of the High Bridge to north Stillwater. A copy of the decision document is available and a map image of the area covered by the decision with location of the high bridge.

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