Land o' Lakes

The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources publishes an interesting page of facts about Minnesota's lakes. The state actually has 11,842 lakes of 10 or more acres, not a mere ten thousand. Strangely enough, four counties don't have any natural lakes that big; two are in the southwest corner of the state, two in the southeast corner. Mud Lake is the most common name for a lake in the state. Red Lake is the biggest lake entirely within the state (451 square miles), but Lake Vermilion, up in the Arrowhead, has the most shoreline - 290 miles. A map shows how this can be.