Graeser Park - Historic Wayside Rest

Beautiful and relaxing spot to take a break and wander around. Nice area to have a picnic too if you've got the time.

A beautiful, mostly forgotten but historic park which is a treasure for the Robbinsdale + area community! Love that volunteers are so invested in preserving, maintaining and restoring this historic WPA-built site from 1939! I can’t wait to see what it will look like once it it fully restored. Peaceful spot for a stroll in any season.

This is a Historic Landmark in sad condition. It was a former Wayside Rest on the Beltline Highway surrounding the Twin Cities prior to the Interstate Highway System. One of only two beehive grills still in existence (the only one in its original location). Hopefully the park will be saved. Impressive Limestone Construction built during the Depression. Still memerable to see.

A nice small neighborhood "park" with some history. The stone benches and most of the beehive grills installed as part of "The New Deal" have been removed(for safekeeping, I'm told, as the park is being renovated.) The parking lot itself has no painted lines, so parking is..however you want it to be, I guess. Tucked away at the back of the park is a lovely limestone fountain with water featutes in a state of disrepair. I've seen groups go in and clean the fountain area up, but no actual repsar work in the 20 years I've been visiting this area. Five stars if the get the water features working and put the original benches/grills back. Till then, four stars.

Lovely as spring can be. Fall is best there.