If you read my post about our excursion to Stillwater, you are familiar with the St. Croix river, which divides Minnesota and Wisconsin and creates a beautiful river valley. Taylors Falls is farther north than Stillwater, but was founded around the same time, and was a center of the logging industry in the late 19th century.
In addition to a charming downtown full of historic buildings and restaurants, Taylors Falls is also home to large cliffs and glacial potholes along both sides of the river. The cliffs and glacial potholes are park of a state park system in both Minnesota and on the opposite side of the river in Wisconsin.
Rapids under the bridge to Wisconsin
Glacial pothole
Explorer pose
Way up high
We of course didn't want to pass up a chance to ride in a steamship, so we also managed to fit in a boat trip on our day in Taylors Falls.
All that rock climbing and boating made us hungry, so we stopped at an old-fashioned drive-in restaurant before we headed back to Minneapolis. I'm not sure if this style of diner existed in the 1950s or 1960s, but cars drive up and park and the servers bring the trays of food out to the cars. I think a regular sit-down restaurant is much less messy, but this was nice to try just for the novelty of it!
Old-fashioned root beer is a specialty in these parts!
Burgers and fries, hanging precariously from my car window!
David kept his seat belt on for the entire meal.
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