By Former Mayor Eric Angvall

Thank you for visiting Lester Prairie. We hope that you will stay with us a while!

Please visit and enjoy our little jewel of a town. Lester Prairie is just south of Highway 7 and west of Minneapolis.

We offer a lifestyle that is simpler and more enjoyable than some larger cities.

We cannot offer traffic jams, air quality issues, limited space, or spoiled landscapes. We just offer ourselves. We are people who enjoy other people; people who want to get involved in their community; people who have a high regard for their neighbors. We look at life a bit differently.

In Lester Prairie we are involved in our churches and our schools. We volunteer to work with Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, and other groups. We value each other, and we want everyone to get involved. We come from many different backgrounds, but strive to make our town just a little bit better each year.

We have a variety of parks in Lester Prairie. The largest is a 50-acre nature park, and we are in the process of developing trails for skiing, walking, and enjoying nature.

We have a large city park that is the gathering place of many during the summer months. It includes one of the city’s key features of which we are very proud – the Lester Prairie swimming pool.

Residents and visitors alike can participate in a wide range of recreational activities and get a lot of enjoyment from our parks.

Our school is a full k-12 school. Residents are never far from school, and there are no long commutes for students or parents. We encourage people to get involved in our school to help make education for our kids that much more enjoyable and meaningful.

Our housing stock is varied, and just about any type of housing people might want is available. It is also affordable, and Lester Prairie’s city taxes are the lowest in the county. We have two new developments that have added a variety of housing options, and the city has grown quickly in recent years as more people began to discover what it has to offer.

We do not want to give you the wrong impression; we don’t have the biggest or the best of everything, but we do have real pride in all that we have achieved, and wish to share some of it with you. So, come back and visit your friends, and take a look at what we have to offer. Stay with us, and become one of us. We’ll leave the door open for you!

Welcome to Lester Prairie!