Hotels in Sauk Centre

Beyond the ordinary Main Street lies the inspiration for Sinclair Lewis's satirical 'Gopher Prairie.' Visit the Nobel Prize winner's boyhood home, where America's literary conscience was formed among these modest rooms. The Sinclair Lewis Interpretive Center reveals how this small town launched literature's sharpest critic of small towns. Spend afternoons at Sauk Lake, where fishing and boating offer respite from literary pilgrimages. The Palmer House Hotel still stands as it did in Lewis's day, complete with rumors of friendly ghosts. Golf enthusiasts can swing by Lynx National or GreyStone while history buffs examine the mysterious Viking Altar Rock. Main Street businesses now embrace their famous critic with a wink and local pride.