aAPPL VALLEY treetop path - Winona Journal

New view from on-high. Visitors can look down on acres of hardwood forest, ponds and marshes and the diverse wildlife.

A decade of rethinking, repurposing

APPLE VALLEY, Minn. –The Minnesota Zoo’s monorail was an embarrassment. It didn’t work and was shut down in 2013. In a classic lemons-into-lemonade recovery, the Zoo has repurposed the elevated monorail course into a 1.2-mile tree-top trail. And how’s this: It’s the world’s longest elevated pedestrian loop. Guinness, you reading this?

APPL VALLET zoo treetop map 1 - Winona Journal

Opening to walkers: July 28