Welcome to Sauk Centre!
Sauk Centre has been a crossroads community since fur traders and settlers days of the Red River Ox Cart trails when travelers used this frontier town of the 1840s to resupply on their journey across the prairies. Located in the center of the state on the Sauk River, Sauk Center is in the geological center of Minnesota.
Today the city of 4,200 people is at the crossroads of three major highways, I-94, Hwy 71 and Hwy 28. Its residents enjoy fishing on Sauk Lake and biking on the Lake Wobegon Trail. There are three golf courses and a new disc golf course at Lion's Park on Fairy Lake.
Sauk Centre is the boyhood home of Nobel Prize winning author Sinclair Lewis of which there is his boyhood home and an interpretive center. You can tour the Sauk Centre Area Historical Society below the historic Bryant Library, one of the last Carnegie libraries in the state.
Sauk Centre also has a multi-screen movie theatre several hotels as well as a campground within in the city.
