Lake City Marina

Marina open house on Aug. 17 promises tours, tunes, and magic tricks

Aug 7, 2024

The Lake City Marina is inviting the community to an open house event on Saturday, Aug. 17, beginning at 1 p.m. Events are planned at the Lake City Marina building and Ohuta Park. They include music from the Lake City Community Choir and Dan and Connie, speeches from Mayor Mark Nichols and Marina...

Music and magic at marina open house on Aug. 17

Jul 31, 2024

City: Boat launches re-open

Jul 10, 2024

The Lake City Police Department said in a Facebook post earlier this week that the boat launches at Hok-Si-La Park and Roschen Park would re-open by Wednesday, July 10, after the Graphic went to press. Flooding kept the launches closed over Water Ski Days weekend and Fourth of July weekend. The...

3-speed tour riders look forward to visiting Lake City each year

Jun 12, 2024

It isn’t enough that Lake City is about halfway back to Red Wing from Wabasha, or the presence of pretty Ohuta Park overlooking Lake Pepin as a locale to brew up a mug of tea, break out some pastries and cold cuts to strengthen us all for the afternoon’s ride to Old Frontenac and back to Red Wing;...

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.