Outdoor Latino Minnesota Is Teaching Skiing To A Whole New Community

By Ary Mendoza, CBS Minnesota

December 9, 2024

MAPLE GROVE, Minn. — Outdoor spaces in Minnesota have suffered from a lack of diversity. Outdoor Latino Minnesota is working to change that, by offering ski lessons at Three Rivers Park in Maple Grove.

"What I like about the event is that you don't even have to be good at skiing but you can still enjoy skiing. It's really lovely to enjoy skiing and just getting out of the house in winter," said attendee Lucia Rosso. "Falling and making mistakes is part of learning, and if you fall that's meant that you are trying, we are just so lucky and thankful for Three Rivers and Outdoor Latino MN to help us here."

"It's a huge community event is just about people getting outside and having fun, recreating and just enjoying outdoors. We're Minnesotans, let's take full advantage of Minnesota winter," said Dominic Ray, Operations Supervisor at Three Rivers Park District. "We got everybody else enjoying cross country ski trails, we have 2km of trails open right now."

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