Frontenac, MN

Frontenac is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Florence Township, Goodhue County, Minnesota, United States, on the Mississippi River. The 2020 census counted 249 residents. James Wells established a trading post in the location that would become Frontenac before 1850. He dealt mostly with Native Americans until the railroad was built in the early 1870s. The land between Frontenac Station and Old Frontenac, as well as much of the land to the north and some to the south, was set aside as a State Park in 1957.

Frontenac State Park includes the floodplain along the Mississippi River, bluffs which are a flyway for many migratory bird species, prairies and hardwood forests. The Mount Frontenac Ski Resort was located on the north-western edge of Frontenac Station. Frontenac's local map joins its older history to the places and landscapes that still shape the town today, all within the wider Minnesota setting. The local scoop is how Frontenac's history still shows up in the places people visit, work, learn, and meet.