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The park is open year-round from 8AM to 10PM. A vehicle permit ($7/day, $35/day) is required to enter the park. A vehicle permit is also required to park at Sunrise Landing. Permits are not available at the Landing and must be obtained from the park office before going to the Landing.
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Point to Point
From the Trail Center, the Sunrise Trail crosses the Amador Prairie, passes through a patch of forest, and then starts a gradual descent to the floodplain of the St. Croix River. About 3.8 miles from the Trail Center, the trail makes a brief visit to the west bank of the St. Croix before leaving the river and continuing the rest of the way to the Sunrise River through a forest of pine, hardwood, oak savanna. At 7 miles from the Trail Center, you reach a small trail shelter and a junction with the Sunrise Loop Trail. The other junction with the loop trail appears shortly before you reach the stout bridge over the Sunrise River and the northern trailhead.
Between the trail shelter and the bridge, you'll pass an interpretive sign for the never completed Arrow Line Railroad (Twin City & Lake Superior Electric Railway), which was planned as a double-tracked, electrically-powered railway on the shortest route between the Twin Cities and Duluth. Between 1907 and 1909, about 40 miles of roadbed were constructed before the railroad went bankrupt. Today's Sunrise Trail rests on parts of this old roadbed.
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