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Where to Stay
Lake City offers a variety of accommodations including quaint bed and breakfasts, lakeside vacation homes and deluxe motels and condominiums.
Where to Eat
From fresh baked artisan breads and restaurants featuring locally grown produce to superb family dining Lake City offers eateries to please anyone's palate with a wide spectrum of cuisine.
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Lake Pepin
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The History of Lake Pepin
There are three marinas on the lake: the Lake City Marina, and Hansen's Harbor, both in Lake City, and Dan's Pepin Marina in Pepin, Wisconsin. There is also a private dock for the customers of the Pickle Factory restaurant in Pepin. Sailboats and the paddlewheel boat are common on the lake in summer. In the winter, there are ice roads that cross the lake.
In 1922, Lake City native Ralph Samuelson invented the sport of water skiing on the lake which. Ever since that date, Lake City is known world wide as "the birthplace of waterskiing" and the city celebrates with a festival called Waterski Days every year on the last weekend in June.
The lighthouse at the entrance to the Lake City Marina is the only working lighthouse on the entire Mississippi River.
Excursion Boats
GEM Sailing
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Address: gemsailingmn@gmail.com |
Phone Number (s): 507-261-7473 |
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Hours: Hours of Operation: All day – Monday – Sunday (6 passenger Maximum per boat) |
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Description: Sailing charter with a captain or sailing lessons available. Yachts include: “Our Lady” a 32’Allied Seawind II Yacht & “Why Knot III” a 35’ C&C Landfall Yacht. Rates: 2 hour sail = $200 4 hour Sail = $350 3 hour Sunset Cruise (includes food and beverage) = $400 |
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Pearl of the Lake Paddlewheel Boat
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Address: 100 Central Point Rd, Lake City, MN |
Phone Number (s): 651-345-5188 |
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Hours: Public Excursions Wed-Sun at 1 pm through October *Please call ahead as schedule is subject to change. |
Sea Wing
Ohuta Park 
Mississippi Steamboats
On April 28, 1871 "a lake monster is seen swimming in Lake Pepin". Since then, many people have reported sightings of an unidentified creature surfacing from the depths of Lake Pepin. The locals have given this shy and elusive creature a name; Pepie.