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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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Minnetonka, MN
Minnetonka takes its name from the lake it borders, though the city itself sits primarily inland from Lake Minnetonka's main body along smaller connected bays, giving it a somewhat different, less exclusively lakefront-focused character than neighboring Wayzata despite the shared name. Ridgedale Center, one of the larger enclosed shopping malls in the western Twin Cities suburbs, anchors a substantial commercial corridor that's made Minnetonka a significant regional retail destination alongside its residential development. The city has built an extensive network of paved trails connecting its parks and neighborhoods, including segments along Purgatory Creek and several smaller lakes within its borders, giving residents substantial recreational green space distributed throughout the community rather than concentrated in a single large park. Minnetonka's combination of Lake Minnetonka-adjacent geography, significant regional retail anchored by Ridgedale Center, and an extensive internal trail and park network has made it one of the larger and more consistently desirable suburbs anywhere in the western Twin Cities metro area.
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