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The following is the text from the Metacontinuity's version of the Wikivoyage page for Lake Wobegon. This page incorporates text from the real-world Wikipedia pages for Lake Wobegon and A Prairie Home Companion.

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Lake Wobegon is a small town in Central Minnesota. Sometimes called "the little town that time forgot and the decades cannot improve", it was made famous by Garrison Keillor providing weekly news reports about the town on American Public Media.


Understand

The derivation of the town's name is unclear. The locals say that Wobegon is an native word meaning "the place where we waited all day in the rain [for you]."

Primarily a farming community, the town's single largest employer is the Powdermilk Biscuit plant, just south of town.


Get in

There is no air or rail service to Lake Wobegon. The closest airport and railway station are in Saint Cloud.

By car

From Saint Cloud, take Minnesota State Highway 23 west to Avon, then County Highway 9 north through nearby Holdingford.

By bicycle

The Lake Wobegon Trail runs from Saint Cloud to Lake Wobegon, through Holdingford.


Get around

Lake Wobegon is small enough to be walkable.


See

• The Whippets, Town Team Baseball, "We'll Whip ya, whip ya good!" Plays at Wally "Old Hard Hands" Bunsen Memorial Field ("where The Whippets whip 'em all")
  
• The Herdsmen, champion church ushering team
  
• Statue of the Unknown Norwegian
  
• World's Largest Pile of Burlap Bags (created by Earl Dickmeyer to fund his and his wife's move to Fort Myers, Florida, and the centerpiece for a mysterious cure to ailments, such as kidney stones)
  

Do

• Our Lady of Perpetual Responsibility Catholic Church; Father Wilmer
  
• Lake Wobegon Lutheran Church; Pastor Liz
  
• Camp Ripley, a Minnesota National Guard training base north of town that is also open to civilians, is a popular place for Minnesotans to train for winter biathlons.
  

Buy

• Bertha's Kitty Boutique ("for persons who care about cats")
  
• Skoeglin's 5 and Dime
  
• Co-op Hardware (formerly Bigger Hammer Hardware, from the joke: "If at first you don't succeed, try using a bigger hammer.")
  
• Clifford's (also known as "The Mercantile," which many residents still call it)
  

Eat

• The Chatterbox Café, "The place to go that's just like home."
  
• Café Boeuf, "Where the elite meet to greet and eat," with maitre d' Maurice.
  
• Moonlight Bay Supper Club
  

Drink

• The Sidetrack Tap, run by Wally and Evelyn; "The dim little place in the dark where the pinball machine never tilts, the clock is a half-hour slow, and love never dies."
  

Sleep

There are no hotels in Lake Wobegon proper. (Art's Baits & Night o' Rest Motel has closed its rooms; Art got sick of people being around, so you can't rent rooms there these days.)


Connect

• The Herald Star, town newspaper run by Harold Star
  

Go next

• Holdingford, which bills itself as the "Gateway to Lake Wobegon"
  
• St. Olaf, to the west on the road to Fargo