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Albert Lea Essential Info

Overview

Albert Lea is a city in Southern Minnesota.

Description is available from Wikitravel under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 license. A list of contributors is available at the original article.

Basics

Best Time To Go

Apr-Sep

Current Time

Current Weather

50 °F

Windy

Fun Facts

  1. Albert Lea was named after Albert Miller Lea, a topographer with the United States Dragoons, who surveyed southern Minnesota and northern Iowa in 1835.
  2. Albert Lea is known as "The Land Between the Lakes".
  3. In 2008, the town's civic theater was renamed the Marion Ross Performing Arts Center. Marion Ross is an actress known for her role as Marion Cunningham on the ABC television series Happy Days from 1974 to 1984, who grew up in Albert Lea.

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