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Excelsior, MN
Excelsior is one of the smallest incorporated cities on Lake Minnetonka, and its walkable downtown along Water Street has preserved a concentration of small, independently owned shops and restaurants that's given the tiny lakefront city an outsized reputation as one of the more charming small towns anywhere in the Twin Cities metro area. The city's history as a 19th-century steamboat resort destination is still visible in its lakefront layout, and the Steamboat Minnehaha, a restored historic vessel, operates seasonally out of Excelsior Commons park, offering public rides on the same lake the boat once served as passenger transportation across generations ago. Excelsior's compact size — under one square mile — has kept its downtown genuinely walkable in a way most of its larger, more car-dependent Twin Cities suburban neighbors aren't, and its lakefront Commons park gives residents and visitors direct public beach and dock access right at the edge of the downtown business district. Excelsior's combination of a preserved 19th-century steamboat-resort history, a genuinely walkable small-town downtown, and direct public Lake Minnetonka access has made it one of the most distinctively charming small lakefront communities anywhere in the greater Minneapolis metropolitan area.
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Eden Prairie, MN
Eden Prairie sits along the Minnesota River valley southwest of Minneapolis, and it's grown since the 1970s and '80s from a largely agricultural township into one of the larger and more corporate-employment-dense suburbs in the entire Twin Cities metro area, home to a substantial concentration of corporate offices along the Highway 212 and Interstate 494 corridors. The city's extensive park and trail system, including Eden Prairie's own portion of the Minnesota River Bluffs regional trail network, has given the rapidly developed suburb a substantial amount of preserved natural space relative to its overall commercial and residential growth. Eden Prairie's public schools have consistently ranked among the strongest in Minnesota, a reputation that's been a significant driver of the city's sustained residential growth even as its commercial corridors have simultaneously expanded to accommodate a growing corporate employment base. Eden Prairie's combination of substantial corporate office development, an extensive preserved trail and park network along the Minnesota River valley, and consistently top-ranked schools has made it one of the more economically and recreationally balanced suburbs anywhere in the greater Minneapolis area.
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