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sparkles 08/30/2010 2:36:00 AM
I will never be able to go to any other beach. I am a lake swimmer since childhood dont really like pools at all. I have been to hundreds of beaches and there is something just enchanting about cedar lake. Back in my early 20s I was definately an uptown hangout person but never once had i gone with to hidden beach, dont really know why. Now i live in a horrible polluted area of minneapolis and started exploring other places to enjoy close to the city via bike. The minute I stopped at cedar point beach I felt at home. Then I discovered hidden beach.I love this beach for the seclusion alone. I never saw it in earlier years but can appriciate just enjoying the lake with no view of the city. an escape. I hope it never turns into calhoun. Although bigger , clearer water, deeper, I find it hard to relax in a place like that.
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Maija Varda 07/12/2008 10:59:00 PM
Bike Man--you're right, the homeless aren't pretty (although it's not true that they are barfing and pissing everywhere). If it really bothers you so, stay at the suburban beaches where society's inevitable derelicts won't wreck your view.
Oh, and there are plenty of smokers and drinkers on the south end of the beach too.
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Bike Man 07/03/2008 9:07:00 PM
For all the talk of Johnny Love being banned, he's not going anywhere. He's still there all the time. Maybe I'm too uptight, but I'm sick of trying to use the grill when there are a half dozen drunk bums bogarting the picnic table, peeing, throwing up, and passing out at the beach. Go to the beach some time. People who want to have a good time and be left alone stay on the south end. People who want to get drunk or high go to the north end. God help you if one of those guys wanders over to "compliment" you.
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P 06/27/2008 6:06:00 PM
You forgot to mention the mud man clearly gets an erection whenever small children are persuaded to go into the mud pit. I banned my kids from heading back there years ago after an incident.
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Mia 06/26/2008 7:07:00 PM
Well for all the time you spent at this beach this is a pretty dumb article. Booooring, we've read it before, this is no new news. Yes, the part about waking up with a bum in your kitchen is hiLARious, but it has nothing to do with the beach. The ending of this article is also dumb. Maybe you should write an article about how paying a million bones for your house doesn't mean that you won't have crime (that aint fair). And maybe you should stick to writing about malls, that seems to be your speciality. Dumb dumb boring article.
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Gypsi 06/26/2008 6:56:00 PM
You know, I have lived a pretty carefree life and even having children and a great job making good money, I still have that soul. The soul that needs to touch the earth and feel a heartbeat. I have been sober a quarter of a century and it doesnt change my wild heart. I just approach the world a little different. However, I am still that wild hearted gypsy. It seems to me that these people care for this beach, respect it and respect each other. Since a violent crime or invasive behavior (trust me the guy making a sandwich isnt the only place this has happened- lock your doors) has occured in the history that been stated in this article, what the heck is the problem? I mean really folks! I get this is a control issue, and a "not in my backyard" issue. But, Please, if the worst thing that is happening is that some people want to polute their bodies with a foriegn substance, at least they aren't hurting someone else. trust me, they will do that wherever they are. Leave them alone. This place is needed. It is just like the upperclass (usually caucasions) who think they should "help" everyone by trying to control everything. Leave these people alone. If violence starts to happen and people get hurt, that is different. Maybe concider giving back reservation lands before you take someone else's safe zone away. Pick a fight that means something. Find a place for homeless women and children, force the gov't to give back all the reservation land that was given in treaties and then stolen. Stock the food shelves. Get a hobby.
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BOMBER 06/26/2008 6:54:00 PM
I'm a late discoverer of Hidden Beach- about 10 years ago, while walking around Cedar Lake. I'd heard about it but never went to find it, until the paths around the northern woods of the lake took me there.
It felt like a completely alternate universe within the city- I felt immediately comfortable and "at home"- people appeared to be acting as themselves, not playing a role in society out and about the city- with no defining class.
I remember the bonfires every now & then, always thinking the cops would be called in and "ruin" it.
One particular late summer night, after spending a few hours sweating in 1st Avenue for a show, I decided to stop, on the way home at the beach for a quick dip, away from the bon fire and the small crowd- just minding my own business- to cool off.
I'd decided this was a moment where I just felt like going in as is- w/ all my clothes on- for the fun of it - just because I wanted to. "Normal"? Who there ever was? Nope- but what harm would be done? It felt great.
Of course this was just as the cops came in to clear the place out (or at least that's what happened when they arrived) and eventually worked their way down to the far side of the beach where I was. I remember the experience was rather embarassing, with very condescending & intimidating questions "Do you always swim with your clothes on" and such....even to the point where they were convinced that it was me who started or assisted with the bon fire- which had been going on well before I arrived- many yards away from where I was, and forced me to help put it out- while I'm soaked to the skin, & made me sit for half an hour while they checked my record before letting me go with a "warning", all for just wanting to enjoy the water, summer air and starry sky, getting "one" with nature before I head home.
A couple years later, half the trees were taken down, more patrols, and now concrete slabs and a lifeguard.
No more.
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Victoria 06/26/2008 6:41:00 PM
I find it very unfortunate that 5% ruin it for the other 95% who are simply trying to find peace and relax from this increasingly chaotic world. A Zen-like utopia is how it was described. It used to feel that way. Deforestation and molestation of the vegetation is devastating enough on its own. I suggest the cops leave and find some crime to fight, not try to babysit the peacemakers of this city. Clearly an easy way for them to literally "Cop out" of their responsibilities, rather, sitting on a beach is how they consider keeping the city safe. Really puts into perspective where the neighboring residents' ignorant priorities lie. We will never let the beach die!
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Chayo Smith 06/26/2008 5:23:00 AM
My best friends and I used to hang out at hidden beach, we even filmed a small project there in the mud pits! If you remember a bunch of women in mud-covered prom dresses, that was it. I will always remember those days with fondness. The presence of the police was always uneasy and, seemingly, ever increasing. We were always very respectful of others and very respected. It was a pretty free and easy place to relax. It is unfortunate that a couple of bad apples spoiled the bunch, but to be honest, the regulars are the least of the neighborhood's worries...well, thanks for the memory stroll!
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Kari Hedegard 06/26/2008 3:01:00 AM
In the late 80's/ early 90's, that was a favorite place to go after the clubs closed and the after hour parties were winding down. I forgot about how sweet it was until I read this article. Thanks for the memories.
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J G Howard 06/26/2008 2:51:00 AM
This is a fantastic article. I loved hanging out at Hidden Beach in the early nineties, when I was in my early twenties. I left Minneapolis in 95, and business has brought me back to the Twin Cities for the first time in years. A lot has changed since I've been gone, but this article is sweet reminiscence. It's unfortunate however, that the kids these days just have nowhere to go and get their freak on once in a while. It's part of growing up, y'know?
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Maija Varda 06/26/2008 1:22:00 AM
Oh yeah, and that thing about the lady waking up to find a man downstairs thinking he was at his home--that's happened to me twice.
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Maija Varda 06/26/2008 12:40:00 AM
Well, that article is probably about 60% true, a lot of details are off, but not bad.
Why no mention of rock golf??? Or the police brutality against regulars before the beach was "official" and they could no longer harass people for hanging out there?
