“You want to leave some kind of legacy,” [Susan] Herreid said. “Maybe I could have made a little bit more money selling it to a developer, but it really just makes me happy to think that people will be walking their dogs up there and enjoying the beauty of it. I don’t have to worry about somebody building a mini-mansion up there.”

A ‘natural haven’ is about to become Afton’s newest park — thanks, in part, to two dogs named Mike and Millie
By Mary Divine
The St. Paul Pioneer Press
https://www.twincities.com/2026/04/25/new-afton-park-st-croix-river/

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