The former tower was located near a DNR head Quarters and hunting area.
The Dakota Sioux named this lake Md Wakan (wonderful or spirit lake). In 1680 Fr Hennepin called the lake Lac Buade, the family name of Count Frontenac. The Ojibwa called it 'Everywhere Lake' or 'Great Lake' Minsi-sagaigon or Mississacaigan (same orgin as Mississippi - Gread River
The French voyageurs and traders, as Nicollet states, following their usual practice of translating the Indian name, called the country, having "all sorts of lakes," the Mille Lacs (Thousand Lakes) region
Site of the Mille Lacs Lookout Tower.
Anchor pad of the Mille Lacs Tower and the nearby DNR head quarters.