Lake City Marina

Coverage of a cover of coots

Apr 17, 2024

Lake City photographer Ben Threinen took this photo of coots just outside the Lake City Marina on April 9. According to wiktionary.org, collective nouns for a group of coots include “commotion, cover, covert, fleet, flock, pod, raft, rasp, or swarm.”

Marina begins launching boats

Apr 17, 2024

Boats have begun occupying slips in the harbors at the Lake City Marina. Marina Administrator Jeff Brand said the marina began launching some early bird boats on Friday, April 12. Owned and operated by the City of Lake City, the Lake City Marina has 635 slips. It also hosts roughly 80 seasonal...

Early ice out doesn’t necessarily mean early marina operations

Mar 6, 2024

Looking out from McCahill Park Tuesday morning, it was hard to spot any ice either in the Lake City Marina’s outer harbor or Lake Pepin itself. Two days earlier, Steve Brown used a drone in heavy winds to photograph a trail of ice chunks around Marina Point. It’s been a warm winter, with less ice...

First glimpse of Aurora Condominiums

Jan 24, 2024

An application for a density variance has provided what appear to be the first publicly available renderings of the Aurora Luxury Lakeside Condominiums planned for the downtown city block bounded by Lakeshore Drive, Marion Street, Washington Street, and McCahill Park. The Lake City Board of...

Point closed, boats out, and dock repair in progress at Lake City Marina

Nov 1, 2023

The season has changed at the Lake City Marina. Marina crews pulled the last boat of the season out of the harbor on Thursday, Oct. 27, according to administrator Jeff Brand. Seasonal residences on Marina Point closed the week of Oct. 16. But people who look in the marina’s outer harbor will...

Crane lifts sunken sailboat

Jun 7, 2023

On Tuesday, June 6, a floating crane lifts a sailboat that had sunk in the 800 dock of the Lake City Marina’s outer harbor.

River forecast to rise above flood stage

Apr 12, 2023

Flooding is expected on the Mississippi River at Lake City for the first time since 2019. Lake City is under a Flood Warning from the National Weather Service, with water levels forecast to reach 17.1 feet early next week and possibly go higher before cresting. The weather service defines minor...

Pristine lot, walking distance from lake, downtown

Sep 7, 2022

Ben Threinen took this aerial photo of the newly completed parking lot at the Lake City Marina before (almost) anyone had a chance to park on it. In less than a month, the marina will begin pulling boats out of the harbor for winter storage on this and other lots.

If you’re reading this, the Lake City Marina parking lot may already be finished

Aug 31, 2022

Workers lay down asphalt in the parking lot of the Lake City Marina last week. It’s one of the final steps of an extensive rebuild that has limited parking at the marina for most of the season until this point. Marina Administrator Jeff Brand said the project was expected to be complete by the end...

Samuelson gets his Way

Jul 20, 2022

A trailblazing Lake City native now has a stretch of road named after him. Ralph Samuelson Way begins at Franklin Street, runs alongside Ohuta Beach, and extends onto Marina Point. Samuelson invented the sport of water skiing on Lake Pepin in 1922. The Lake City City Council adopted an ordinance...