Lanesboro, Minnesota City Guide
For over 20 years, Pamela Lanier's Lanesboro, Minnesota Travel Guide has been your connection to Lanesboro's tourism community with invaluable details on local attractions, restaurants, shopping, museums, history, outdoor recreation and more.
Things to Do in Lanesboro
 With so many adventures to fill your days with in Lanesboro, you’ll be glad to return to your comfortable bed and breakfast at the end of the day. What's most striking about Lanesboro is the thriving arts scene. When one usually thinks of a small, Midwestern town, cows and wheat fields spring to mind before contemporary art galleries and local theater. Well, it's time to ditch the stereotypes because Lanesboro offers cultural experiences you'd expect to find in a much larger metropolis. The charm of it, however, rests in the fact that a town of under a thousand residents and without stoplights is able to deliver these cultural attractions. The arts scene centers around the Cornucopia Arts Center, which features a variety of local artists and mediums. If music is your artistic medium of choice, the Lanesboro Arts Council hosts musical performances in the St. Mane Theatre. Perhaps the most sparkling jewel on the Lanesboro art scene's crown is the Commonwealth Theatre Company, which can draw in up to 20,000 guests for their performances.
Of course, there's more than art in Lanesboro. In fact, your first order of business after leaving your bed and breakfast in the early morning is a trolley ride on "Molly the Trolley," a great way to catch a glimpse of all the sights around town. And if a trolley ride is too modern a mode of transportation, you there’s always the alternative horse drawn buggy ride! One of the most fascinating aspects of Lanesboro culture is the influence of the local Amish community. The local Amish farmers hold fast to the traditional Amish standards of horse drawn buggies and sustainable living. You will see them in town and you can even take a tour (both guided or with a CD you purchase in town) of their land. These are a reverent people who are treated respectfully by townspeople and tourists alike. If you attend the Lanesboro Farmer's Market in Sylvan Park, you'll find the Amish selling hand crafted quilts and wood workings along with their freshly farmed produce. Also at this market are other local farmers selling what is guaranteed to be the most delicious and freshest fruits and vegetables you'll ever eat. This very singular town is home to both a reputable cultural community and some of the best farmland in the world—offering the bed and breakfast traveler a memorable intellectual experience as well as some very tasty farm produce.
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