Lake Pepin Monster

04/11/2026

Lovely Sunset on Lake Pepin

07/14/2025

The July 13, 1890, capsizing of the steamer Sea Wing on Lake Pepin and the deaths of ninety-eight of its passengers horrified Minnesota and the nation. The accident ranks among the most deadly on America’s inland waterways.

Read more here :
https://www3.mnhs.org/mnopedia/search/index/event/sea-wing-disaster-1890?hs_amp=true

06/29/2024

Loch Pepin is a little angry today.

10/14/2023

Pepie - The Lake Pepin Monster
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09/29/2023

Have you seen The Lake Pepin Monster ? Do you have a sighting you would like to tell us about ?
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02/09/2023

Happy Birthday Laura Ingalls Wilder Museum, Pepin Wisconsin !!

12/16/2022

The Day WWII Came to Lake Pepin:
On this day in December 1944, a B-24 Liberator bomber crashed into Lake Pepin. The four-engine military aircraft with an 110-foot wingspan was being flown from St. Paul to Kansas City during WWII when it encountered a snowstorm over this stretch of the Mississippi River. The three-person crew attempted an emergency landing in Frontenac, but crashed through the ice on Lake Pepin. There were unfortunately no survivors. The Army dredged the area the following spring and recovered 60% of the aircraft. Since then, divers and treasure hunters have searched for missing items over the years, but without much success.

Read more in the Big River Magazine article:
https://www.bigrivermagazine.com/pepinbomber.html

11/26/2022

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07/12/2022

130th Anniversary of the Sea Wing Disaster on Lake Pepin

On July 13th, 1890, a local steamboat The Sea Wing set out from Diamond Bluff, Wisconsin for a day of leisure at the National Guard Encampment in Lake City, MN. The encampment had invited family and friends to come visit for the day. Along the way they stopped to pick up additional passengers in Trenton and Red Wing.

Around 215 people traveled down Lake Pepin to Lake City that day visiting the encampment, and around 8:00 pm the Sea Wing set course back home. Of those 215 people, 98 never returned home and will be remembered as those who lost their life in one of the Upper Mississippi’s most fatal steamboat accidents to date.

Unlike many other previous steamboat accidents that were usually caused by explosions from boilers or fires on board, this disaster was due to a violent storm that capsized the Sea Wing on its journey home.

This same storm produced a fatal tornado just 60 miles north of Lake City earlier that same day. When the Sea Wing capsized between Maiden Rock Bluff and Lake City, it was first thrown to its side, then completely upside down trapping women and children inside the cabin and throwing men from the decks into the lake.

The Sea Wing also was towing a barge on this excursion to hold additional passengers, which did manage to either break off or get cut away from the boat, later floating to shore with survivors.

For more in-depth information regarding the Sea Wing disaster I recommend the book “The Sea Wing Disaster: Tragedy on Lake Pepin” by Frederick L. Johnson and published by the Goodhue County Historical Society. He has written two versions of this book, the second one is an expanded version with photos and additional information that had come to light since the first version was published.

02/09/2022

“Loch” Pepin Monster’s Famous cousin… Loch Ness Monster!

Though the Loch Ness monster is the world's most famous monster it seems similar creatures have been appearing in the US too.