Bad Medicine Lake

Bad Medicine Lake is a spring-fed located in in . It got its name from the fact that early Native Americans in the area thought that a lake with neither inlet nor outlet was a place of bad omen and would not hunt or fish near the lake.
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  • Type: Lake
  • Description: lake in Becker County, Minnesota, United States
  • Also known as: Lake of the Valley

Bad Medicine Lake

Latitude
47.12756° or 47° 7′ 39″ north
Longitude
-95.39571° or 95° 23′ 45″ west
Elevation
1,598 feet (487 metres)
Open location code
86V64JH3+2P
Geo­Names ID
5016963
Wiki­data ID
Q4840378
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to French—“Bad Medicine Lake” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: بحيرة بد ميديسين، بونس فورد
  • French: Bad Medicine Lake

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