

Jayded AF Offers up Ready-Made Cocktails
A local woman’s medical crisis kickstarted her business venture. Alexa Fitzpatrick was happily living the American dream when a sudden medical...

Explore the Sprawling Gardens of a Deephaven Home
Retired landscape architect Barbara Burgum highlights native species in her Deephaven gardens. The 1905 Craftsman home on the shores of Lake...

101 Years and Counting at Orono Orchards
Orono golf course’s history is on par. Your golf course has some history when cut hayfields served as fairways and borrowed tomato cans, spade into...

Your Wedding, Our Pages
Your wedding is one of the most important days of your life—filled with romance, the love of family and friends and, of course, all those wonderful,...
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We’re Celebrating 20 Years in the Community
Lake Minnetonka Magazine celebrates its 20th anniversary this month. Enjoy a look back at some of our iconic covers from the last two decades....
Celebrate 20 Years With Elegant Emeralds
With a celebratory nod to Lake Minnetonka Magazine’s 20th anniversary, stylist Jessica Hilde leans into the traditional gemstone that marks 20...
These Cupcakes Are a Triple Threat
When you take Strawberry Daiquiris and Tres Leches Cupcakes and add in an anniversary or Cinco de Mayo celebrations, consider this clever recipe,...
Top Book Picks From 2005
In celebration of our 20th anniversary, walk down memory lane with us to revisit some of 2005’s top titles. In no particular order, these books and...
Events
5K Fun Run at Back Channel Brewing Co.
May the 4th be with you! Find your force and join us for a special Star Wars-themed 5K event at Back Channel Brewing Co. All ages and all levels...
Senior Choral: Spring Concert
Enjoy a performance by the Minnetonka Senior Choral at its spring concert. Free, advanced registration required.
Minnetonka High School Jazz Bands Presents: Tonka Swings 2025
Tonka Swings is the annual jazz event performed by the Minnetonka High School Jazz bands and organized by the Minnetonka Band Boosters. This event...
Senior Community Services Turns 75
Join us in celebrating our achievements and looking to the future at our 75th Anniversary Celebration. With casino tables, live music, raffle prizes...
Tonka Youth Triathlon
This great community run, bike and swim event is open to all boys and girls in grades 2-8. The race takes place Saturday, May 20 at Minnetonka Middle School East.
In This Issue

Welcome to the May 2025 Issue
Welcome, readers, to our 20th anniversary as the Lake Minnetonka area’s premier community lifestyle magazine. We couldn’t be prouder of our longstanding roots in and commitment to this community. A...

The Great River Road Offers the Ultimate Family Road Trip
Presented by: After a long winter, I buckled up my kids for a quick spring road trip to stretch our legs and see the landscape as it started to bloom along the Mississippi River. For impressive...

Art Girls Starts New Chapter in Deephaven
Hollie Blanchard helps clients visually express their décor and personal narratives. Attributing a positive outcome to being in the right place at the right time can feel a touch trite, a bit...

We’re Celebrating 20 Years in the Community
Lake Minnetonka Magazine celebrates its 20th anniversary this month. Enjoy a look back at some of our iconic covers from the last two decades. Through stunning, in-house photography and art...

AJ Lindstrom-Oye Uses Art To Explore Identity
One Minnetonka painter finds healing—and her sense of identity—on the canvas. Minnetonka painter AJ Lindstrom-Oye found her way to art, so she could “show up as me,” she says, after a life marked by...
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