Beard's Plaisance — Attraction in Minneapolis

Beard's Plaisance is one of the city’s oldest parks. A tiny parking lot is available down at the tennis courts on the Lake Harriet Pkwy side, otherwise only road-side parking along Upton Ave. S. Here one can enjoy a well-kept playground/tot lot, tennis courts, picnic sites w/ grills, a huge pavilion for outdoor get-togethers, clean public restrooms, plenty of walking space & it's pet friendly. Met at the pavilion for a picnic to memorialize a friend. Plenty of old style wood picnic tables to set out a meal for group of 20+ & memorabilia. Electrical hook-ups available. Great place to fellowship in the hot summer - cool breeze from adjacent Lake Harriet. 🐕 Lots of folk walking their dog. 🏃🏼‍♀️Lots of kids enjoying the playground/tot lot.

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Beard's Pleasance is a very nice park shelter by Lake Harriet in Minneapolis. However, the Minneapolis Park Board needs to do a cleaning inside of this picnic pavilion. The ceiling was very dirty with dirt, dust, cobwebs, and so forth. It needs a good power washing. This also would help keep away hornet's nest that like to form in places like that. Otherwise, it's a nice park pavilion with nice picnic tables right by Lake Harriet. It was a beautiful...

I took my two year old to this park at around 930am The climbing structures seemed slippery caused by play sand. Play sand surrounded by cement sidewalks keep the playground feeling a little slick when running around. There is a parking lot on the lake side. Down the hill by the tennis courts. 2 hour limit. Or you can park on Upton if you don't mind traffic driving by during a load/unload. Picnic structure is nice. Bathrooms were...