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The first people who inhabited the Lake Minnetonka area were Indigenous peoples who migrated to the region at the end of the last ice age circa 8000 BCE.Later peoples who inhabited the area between 3500 BCE and 1500 CE are commonly referred to collectively as the "Mound Builders" because they constructed large land features serving spiritual, ceremonial, burial, and elite residential functions.
The Crane Island Historic District is a historic district of vacation properties on Crane Island in Lake Minnetonka, part of the city of Minnetrista, Minnesota, United States. It consists of a number of private residential summer cottages and some communal amenities.
It continues towards Lake Minnetonka. It passes by Gale Woods Farm and enters Mound. It crosses CSAH 110 and CSAH 15 on crosswalks, and enters the Lake Minnetonka area. It runs parallel to CSAH 15, and will do so for the rest of its journey. It crosses Seton Channel on a historic rail bridge, and enters Spring Park. It parallels the West Arm ...
Wayzata (/ w aɪ ˈ z ɛ t ə / wy-ZET-ə) is a city in Hennepin County, Minnesota, United States.The population was 4,434 at the 2020 census. [2] The city is about 12 miles (19 kilometres) west of Minneapolis and is situated on the northern shore of Lake Minnetonka, the ninth largest lake in the state.
The compact downtown abutting Steiger Lake and the Carver Park Preserve, just down the road from the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum, with the Lake Minnetonka Regional Trail passing through, has ...
Big Island Park (commonly referred to as Big Island Amusement Park) was a popular tourist destination that existed near Minneapolis, Minnesota between 1906 and 1911 on Lake Minnetonka's Big Island. Today the property is a municipal nature park owned by the City of Orono , sometimes referred to as Big Island Nature Park to distinguish it from ...
Danny and Sophie Strauss met at a summer camp in Ely along the edge of the Boundary Waters, and fell in love with Finnish sauna culture. The 1930s log cabin sauna Minnesota's growing sauna culture ...
The Lake Minnetonka LRT Regional Trail runs for 15.92 miles (25.62 km) from 8th Avenue in Hopkins through Minnetonka, Excelsior, and Chanhassen to 81st Street in Victoria. [6] The trail uses a crushed limestone surface. It is connected to the Minnesota River Bluffs LRT trail via "The Artery" along 8th Avenue South in Hopkins, which opened in 2018.