Sailing beautiful Lake Pepin – a top sailing destination in the upper Midwest

PEPIN COUNTY, Wis. (WLAX/WEUX) – Charming river towns are superb gateways to beautiful Lake Pepin, home to exceptional outdoor and cultural activities. FOX2548’s Phoebe Murray and photojournalist Duane Wolter spent an afternoon on the water with Captain Rob Buntz to show us why Lake Pepin is one of the two best lakes in the upper Midwest to sail.

Lake Pepin is a naturally occurring lake along the Mississippi River that straddles both the Minnesota and Wisconsin state border.

Captain Rob Buntz said, “As you go over on the Wisconsin side, it’ s a gradual up of the bottom into a sandy kind of beach mostly, over here on the Minnesota side what you see in the bluffs right there is exactly how it looks down below the water, it just goes straight down.”

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