Sauk Centre

The Sauk River defines the setting of Sauk Centre — it connects the city with Sauk Lake, placing daily life in a central Minnesota landscape of water, farmland and small-town streets. The community is closely associated with novelist Sinclair Lewis, who was born here in 1885; his 1920 novel Main Street drew on Sauk Centre for the fictional town of Gopher Prairie. Lewis’s boyhood home survives as a National Historic Landmark, while downtown retains the broad commercial streets that informed his portrayal of provincial America. Continue through nearby webcams to explore different parts of Sauk Centre and central Minnesota.

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