Lake Harriet
Lake Harriet is a lake in southwest Minneapolis, south of Bde Maka Ska and north of Minnehaha Creek. The lake is surrounded by parkland as part of Minneapolis’ Chain of Lakes. The lake has an area of 335 acres and a maximum depth of 85 feet.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Baseball Bugs, Public domain.
- Type: Lake
- Description: lake in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
- Also known as: “Harriet Lake” and “Mde Unma”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Thomas Sadler Roberts Bird Sanctuary and Linden Hills Library.
Thomas Sadler Roberts Bird Sanctuary
Nature reserve
Photo: Jlundell, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Thomas Sadler Roberts Bird Sanctuary is situated within Lyndale Park, a Minneapolis city park on the northeast side of Lake Harriet and part of Minneapolis’ Chain of Lakes Regional Park.
Linden Hills Library
Library
Photo: Teemu008, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Linden Hills Library is a public library in the Linden Hills neighborhood of southwest Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. The branch library originally opened in 1911 on the first floor of the Lake Harriet Commercial Club building.
Queen Avenue Bridge
Bridge
Photo: McGhiever, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Queen Avenue Bridge is a reinforced concrete single-span barrel arch bridge in Minneapolis that spans the tracks used by the Minnesota Streetcar Museum.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Southwest Minneapolis and Linden Hills.
Southwest Minneapolis
Photo: AlexiusHoratius, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Southwest Minneapolis is a district in Minneapolis. It includes Uptown, Lyn-Lake, the Wedge, Eat Street, Linden Hills, the popular Chain of Lakes, and other areas.
Linden Hills
Neighborhood
Linden Hills is a neighborhood in the Southwest community of Minneapolis on a hill overlooking Lake Harriet. It was one of the last areas to be developed in the City of Minneapolis.
Lynnhurst
Neighborhood
Lynnhurst is a neighborhood in the Southwest community in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Its boundaries are 46th Street to the north, Lyndale Avenue to the east, 54th Street to the south, and Penn Avenue to the west.
Lake Harriet
- Category: body of water
- Location: Hennepin, Minnesota, Midwest, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
44.92199° or 44° 55′ 19″ northLongitude
-93.30542° or 93° 18′ 20″ westElevation
850 feet (259 metres)Open location code
86P8WMCV+QROpenStreetMap ID
way 22928094OpenStreetMap feature
natural=waterOpenStreetMap feature
water=lakeGeoNames ID
5029400Wikidata ID
Q4496056
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Lake Harriet” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بحيرة هاريت، مينيابولس”
- Chinese: “哈里埃特湖”
- French: “Lake Harriet”
- Hebrew: “אגם הארייט”
- Persian: “دریاچه هریت”
- Russian: “Харриет (озеро)”
- Russian: “Харриет”
- Welsh: “Llyn Harriet”
- “Harriet”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Lake Harriet”. Photo: Baseball Bugs, Public domain.