Bad Medicine Lake
Bad Medicine Lake is a spring-fed lake located in Forest Township in Becker County, Minnesota. 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.- Lake
- …has a surface elevation of 1,598 feet (487 metres)
- …is also known as “Lake of the Valley”
- Description: lake in Becker County, Minnesota, United States
- Category: body of water
- Location
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Latitude
47.12756° or 47° 7′ 39″ north
Longitude
-95.39571° or 95° 23′ 45″ west
Open location code
86V64JH3+2P
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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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