Lake City Marina

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...

Marina parking lot getting a new surface

Jun 8, 2022

After a few years of replacing docks, this year’s major construction project at the Lake City Marina is taking place on land. “We have a major parking lot reconstruction project going on right now, which we have been planning for the last several years,” Lake City Marina Administrator Jeff Brand...

Marina’s winter storage process underway

Sep 22, 2021

A Lake City Marina truck pushes the sailboat “Persephone” toward Marina Point on Tuesday, Sept. 21. Hundreds of boats that populate the marina docks will come out of the water in the coming weeks. Many will be stored on-site. Persephone is a fitting name for a vessel that spends a season in disuse...

Final layer of bituminous put down at Ohuta Beach

Sep 22, 2021

A lot has happened recently at the Ohuta Beach construction site: some of it obvious, some of it hidden from sight. “The big progress to report is that the wear course was put down on Saturday,” said Megan Smith, Lake City’s Planning and Community Development director. “This is the finished layer...

Rainbows emerge after brief downpour

Sep 15, 2021

Jeanne Pietig captured this photo of the Lake City Marina’s outer harbor with a rainbow in the background after a brief downpour last week. Another rainbow is barely visible, she said.

Landscaping at Ohuta Beach

Aug 25, 2021

Progress continues on the Ohuta Beach project. Over the weekend landscapers planted trees and other plants. The restroom facility was put on hold due to a high bid, but other aspects of the project continue to move forward.