Pine City Quality of Life

Pine City has many natural amenities and is conveniently situated along the I-35 corridor. Our area attracts many visitors year-round. Popular outdoor activities in the area include hunting, fishing, camping and snowmobiling.

Other local features and attractions include:

• The Snake River, a scenic river that adjoins the St. Croix River, offers outstanding whitewater canoeing and kayaking.

• Highway 61, a designated Scenic Byway and Pine City's main thoroughfare, offers aesthetically pleasing views of East Central Minnesota.

• Lakeside Medical Center Hospital and Nursing Home provides quality health care to the area.

• The Pine City Country Club offers golfers a unique 9-hole challenge.

• The Northwest Company Fur Post, complete with a modern visitor center, allows for an opportunity to step back in time to 1804, when the Europeans arrived to this area.

• Art in the Park brings live music acts downtown on Friday Summer nights.

• Voyageur Park on the Snake River provides a boardwalk, nature trails, fishing and picnic opportunities.

Development Opportunities

Land for development is abundant and relatively inexpensive. The City has 137.6 acres designated in a JOBZ zone and has other property with freeway frontage. The City can provide tax increment, tax abatement, industrial revenue bonds and local low interest gap loans for developments that meet our economic development goals.