Marina point

Marina Point residents again raise money for 4th of July fireworks

Jul 1, 2026

The above residents, who are a just few of the volunteers on Marina Point, presented the Lake City Lions Club with a donation of $1,800 collected from their neighbors to help once again support the 4th of July fireworks in Lake City. Presenting the donation to Lions Club Fireworks Co-chair Bruce...

Marina Point volunteers raise $1,865 for fireworks

Jun 25, 2025

Volunteers on Marina Point recently presented the Lions Club with a donation of $1,865 collected from their neighbors to help support the 4th of July Fireworks. In the past the money raised was donated through the Marina but since the Lions Club has assumed management for the Fireworks Show, the...

Lake City racking up losses

Jul 12, 2023

I’m a summer resident on Marina Point. These are the places and things Lake City has lost in my 8 years here: • Nosh, Railhouse, and Margo’s Rustic • Water feature on the first water ski memorial • Marina tennis courts and beach house by the lake • 58 trees (my count) • Open area on the point •...

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...

Sunset  fishing in  the haze

Aug 4, 2021

Lake City photographer Steve Brown took this photo of anglers clustered around Marina Point as the sun set through the haze. Wildfires in Canada have brought a smoky haze and air quality warnings to the midwest. Current air quality information is available from the Minnesota Pollution Control...

Trailers on the move at Marina Point

Apr 21, 2021

The scene is being set for construction at Ohuta Park. The process of moving seven vacation trailers from along the inner harbor to newly constructed sites on Marina Point began on Friday of last week, according to Megan Smith, Planning and Community Engagement Director for the City of Lake City...

Work on Marina Point trailer sites has begun

Nov 11, 2020

Work has begun on the seven new vacation trailer sites on Marina Point. The work includes “earthwork, tree removal, installation of new water and sewer lines and service connections, and preparation of the site pad and finish grades,” according to the Oct. 12 City Council Agenda. In October the...

Council awards bid for first phase of Ohuta Park project

Oct 21, 2020

The Ohuta Park redevelopment project moved one step closer Oct. 12 when the Lake City City Council awarded the Phase I bid to Glander Excavating on a 5-2 vote. Council Members Cindy McGrath and Faye Brown voted against the motion. The company will prepare sites for the seven trailers that will be...

Marina point changes will come as surprise

Oct 21, 2020

It sounds like people were surprised by the Lake City natural gas improvement project and the associated disturbance of public and private property. People will be surprised this spring by the destruction of the green space and trees on Marina Point when they move seven additional trailers to the...

A measure of certainty for Marina Point

Jul 22, 2020

The Lake City City Council on July 13 came to what may be its final final decision of the fate of the summer vacation trailers that line the inner harbor leading to Marina Point. In previous votes, the council decided to move the trailers to make way for changes to Ohuta Park. It later approved a...