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City in Minnesota, United States
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Albert Lea is a city of about 18,000 people (2010) in Southern Minnesota.
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The 255-seat theater is used for the arts, business meetings, and seminars.
Trails take visitors around wet lowlands, oak savanna, and grasslands. Albert Lea Lake and park marshes draw hundreds of waterfowl during migration. Oak savanna and prairie landscape, including wetlands, dominate most of the park. The 116-acre Big Island is covered with a maple and basswood forest. There is a glacial esker in the northeast section of the park. Blazing Star Trail bike trail runs from Albert Lea to the state park. The park also offers bird watching, hiking, canoeing, and camping.
Known as "The Land Between the Lakes," there are three main lakes in Albert Lea: Fountain Lake, Albert Lea Lake, and Pickerel Lake. Fish typically found in these lakes include bullhead, carp, northern pike, bass, walleye, catfish, yellow perch and various panfish.
Albert Lea is located at the junction of Interstate 35 and Interstate 90.
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