Lake Pepin is a natural resource and tourist destination, but sediment deposits, at present rates, threaten to fill the lake within 350 years.

The main obstacle for the first towboat every spring is getting through an icy Lake Pepin, which borders Minnesota and Wisconsin. This year's first towboat was the "Motor Vessel Neil N.

That's especially true for Lake Pepin, the largest lake on the Mississippi River. Located between Wisconsin and Minnesota, this natural widening of the river forms a massive body of water that's a ...