The last meet had 9 people at it I think, the most we've had was 12-16

That's at least $15 a person if we get 16 people

We'd need 48 to show up to bring it down to $5/person

Consider these numbers when making your decision. Otherwise, I don't see that it's a big deal either place unless you're just doing it to prevent Kiba from going =P

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All I have to say is the lake attached to the Picnic area is simply amazing for fishing. I go there regularly.

The park is big and has a lot of space to it; I think any of the shelters they have there would be expensive to rent.

One very important thing though, make sure to go into the park building and make sure no one has a big event going on that day. Corporations hold a lot of fundraisers and company picnics here in which case they will reserve the ENTIRE PARK and it will be off limits to the general public.

My question is why do we need to rent a shelter? Really. This is not going to be an 80 person thing. I think the best thing to do is to go to one of these parks and make sure there are no large parties reserving the rest of the park, and in this case the smaller picnic shelters and open picnic tables are public domain and on a first come basis. If nothing else you could allways picnic on blankets on the grass.

If you want to reserve a shelter $240 is a LOT for a picnic shelter. Thats several times more then what we pay for our spot for the MNFurs picnic and that spot is easily big enough for 100 people. You don't need anything nearly that big.

There are a lot of parks in Eagan and Burnsville that have smaller shelters. I'd say look at one of them. If not, some places that have ample amount of free public domain space that we could likely invade and find a few tables at would be Harriet Island Regional park in St Paul (assuming its not flooded still n.n), Nokomis and Minnehaha Falls parks in Minneapolis, and Lebanon Hills park in Eagan, where you originally wanted to go camping. Lebanon hills is a fricking huge park and has multiple picnic sites.

For a group of 10-20 people there is really no reason to reserve a shelter IMO. Larger groups, yes. Smaller things can get away with just going there and taking over whatever is free.

Oh yeah, and Como Park in St Paul. That is another fricking huge park. And they have a zoo there too. It would be insane to do a picnic there on a sat but a Friday is doable

okok. i'll just make sure they don't have any huge event on may 21st then :P.

omg i want to come FIRST FUR MEET YAY im so glad furries are in MN yay Please PM me location <3

i live in eden prarie ^^ Tee hee ^^ but i moved to savage mabeh a month ago so yea....lol