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Who Actually Owns the Lakes in Minnesota?


Who Actually Owns the Lakes in Minnesota?
I spent the weekend up in the Battle Lake area, and as I was driving down the Otter Tail Scenic Byway, the question of who owns the lakes popped into my head.
There are 11,842 lakes in our great state, but who really owns them? We can t parcel off chunks of water like we do for land, so how does lake ownership work?
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Riparian rights are property rights arising from owning shoreland. They include the right to wharf out to a navigable depth; to take water for domestic and agricultural purposes; to use land added by accretion or exposed by reliction; to take ice; to fish, boat, hunt, swim; to such other uses as water bodies are normally put. ....

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