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Crane Lake has made the top eight in our most-loved lake contest. 

See all the finalists and cast your vote here.

Just about 120 people live on Crane Lake year-round, but it still has love from people who get to spend just part of their time on the lake. Like James Reiling, as he told us via the 

On the Canadian border in the Kabetogama State Forest, Crane serves as an entry point for Voyageurs National Park, the Boundary Waters Canoe Area, Quetico Provincial Park in Ontario and Superior National Forest. 

It's much more than that for people like Scott Sanborn, as he told us in PIN.

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The northern Minnesota lake as made the top eight in our most-loved lake contest. See why and cast your vote.

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Postcard of Crane Lake's King Williams Narrows, circa 1930.

Crane Lake: 'The end-of-the-road town where everyone knows everyone'

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