Lake Wobegon

Lake Wobegon is a town in Minnesota, claimed to have been the boyhood home of Garrison Keillor, who reports the News from Lake Wobegon on the radio show A Prairie Home Companion broadcast every Saturday afternoon over Minnesota Public Radio and NPR stations throughout the US. It's proud of the statue of the Unknown Norwegian, is the home of the Leonards baseball team, is served by Ralph's Pretty Good Grocery and the Half Track Tap, and contains Our Lady of Perpetual Responsibility parish. There is lots of tuna hot dish, snow, Norwegian bachelor farmers, ice fishing, and lutefisk. Keillor describes Lake Wobegon as a place where "all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average."

Garrison Keillor has also written several semi-autobiographiCAL books about life in Lake Wobegon.

Stearns County, Minnesota has named a bike trail after the supposedly fictitious town, http://www.lakewobegontrails.com/