City of Walker Minnesota

About

High bluffs, lakes and pines form a beautiful physical setting for the City of Walker, Minnesota -- a community of over 1,000 people in northern Cass County. Walker, situated on the shores of Leech Lake, is the main tourist center for much of the Chippewa National Forest, northern Cass County and adjacent Hubbard County. Originally an Indian mission, and later a lumbering, trading, and sawmill center offering goods for settlers and loggers in and around the village, the advent of the railroad stimulated Walker's economy and added new population growth. The village and surrounding area have grown slowly but steadily during the past fifty years.