Anoka County Riverfront Park 5100 River Road, Minneapolis, MN 55432, 763-757-3920, This park offers opportunities for biking, a boat launch, canoeing, fishing, hiking, picnicking, and cross-country skiing. 

Bunker Hills Regional Park 2038 Foley Boulevard, Minneapolis, MN 55304, 763-757-3920, Bunker Hills Regional Park features a wave pool, a play area, and facilities for archery, biking, camping, golfing, hiking, horseback riding, picnicking, swimming, and cross country skiing.

Elm Creek Park Reserve 12400 Elm Creek Park Drive, Minneapolis, MN 55369, 763-694-7894, Summer activities include hiking and biking trails, a chlorinated upland swimming pond, massive children’s play area, picnic pavilions and picnicking sites, an archery course, an off-leash pet exercise area and much more. Winter activities include a new snow-tubing hill, a beginner-level downhill ski and snowboard hill, cross-country skiing, sliding and snowshoeing.  more...

Midwest Mountaineering 309 Cedar Avenue, Minneapolis, MN 55454, 612-339-3433, Summer activities at this park include canoeing, kayaking, backpacking, camping, hiking, and climbing; winter activities include cross country skiing, ski skating, snow shoeing, winter camping, climbing and mountaineering. 

National Sports Center 1700 105th Avenue, Minneapolis, MN 55449, 763-785-5601, The National Sports Center features an indoor sports hall, a twelve-thousand-seat outdoor stadium, four sheets of Olympic-sized ice, and an eighteen-hole putting course with real bent grass greens; banquet and reception facilities are also available. 

Cycle Seven Southdale, Minneapolis, MN 55435, Edina, 612-227-9773, Cycle Seven is the Twin Cities first conference bike business. To make a reservation, check the calendar to see when the conference bike is available or coming to a neighborhood near you. Email a request for days and times. A conference bike can be rented by the day, by the hour, or for a number of consecutive days. Rentals and tours will continue throughout the winter, weather permitting.

Greenhaven Country Club 2800 Greenhaven Road, Anoka, MN 55303, 763-422-8161, Built in 1921, this beautiful country club features a superbly maintained eighteen-hole golf course, as well as banquet and reception facilities. 

Kate Haven Golf Course 8791 Lexington Avenue, Minneapolis, MN 55014, 763-786-2945, This public nine-hole executive par-thirty golf course offers rolling hills and water hazards. 

Rush Creek Golf Club 7801 County Road 101, Minneapolis, MN 55311, 763-494-8844, This championship eighteen-hole golf course features a driving range and putting greens, and also offers an on-site pub and restaurant. 

Sundance Golf and Bowl 15240 113th Avenue, Minneapolis, MN 55369, 763-420-4700, Sundance Golf and Bowl features a regulation eighteen-hole golf course, while also offering a twenty four lane bowling alley, as well as banquet facilities. 

Tournament Greens 1700 105th Avenue, Minneapolis, MN 55449, 763-785-5643, Designed by the PGA Tour, this eighteen-hole putting course of real bent grass greens presents a challenge to even the lowest of handicaps. 

Wilderness Inquiry 808 Fourteenth Avenue, Minneapolis, MN 55414, 612-676-9400, Wilderness Inquiry provides day and overnight wilderness canoe, kayak and rafting trips, as well as dog sled and horse pack adventures; equipment and food are provided. 

Columbia Ice Arena 7011 University Avenue, Minneapolis, MN 55432, 763-571-6701, This arena consists of two ice rinks that are available for hockey, figure skating and public ice skating; the movie, "Mighty Ducks", was filmed at this facility. 

Depot Skating Rink, The 203 Fifth Avenue, Minneapolis, MN 55401, 612-339-2253, The Depot Skating Rink is a seasonal climate controlled indoor figure skating rink, with special lighting and a high quality sound system. Open figure skating is available daily at various times. more... 

Schwan's Super Rink 1700 105th Avenue, Minneapolis, MN 55449, 763-785-3687, This state-of-the-art facility is the largest ice arena of its kind in the world, and is the only arena with four Olympic sheets of ice under one roof; the facility is also used for adult hockey leagues, open skating, skating lessons, figure skating, speed skating and more. 

Hyland-Bush-Anderson Park Reserve 10145 Bush Lake Road, Minneapolis, MN 55438, 952-941-4362, This recreation area offers an eleven mile skiing trail that runs through both hilly and flat lands, as well as through woods and an open meadow that surrounds a lake; ski and sit-ski rentals are available. 

Theodore Wirth Regional Park 1301 Theodore Wirth Parkway, Minneapolis, MN 55422, 612-522-4584, The Theodore Wirth Regional Park features an eight mile ski trail that runs through open parkland and woods, with most of the trails being at an intermediate level; the park is adjacent to a downhill ski area, and offers lighted trails at night. 

Bunker Hills Wave Pool 1038 Parkway Road, Minneapolis, MN 55304, 763-767-2895, This twenty-five-thousand-square-foot pool offers fun for the entire family, with waves generated every five seconds for fifteen minutes, followed by a ten minute rest period; tubes are also available for rent.

Tropics Indoor Water Park 4580 Victoria Street, Minneapolis, MN 55126, 651-490-4700, This water park is the home of the metro's largest and most exciting indoor water slide, and features a two-hundred-ten-foot twisting water slide and more; one may also choose to participate in and enjoy water volleyball and slam-dunk water basketball.