Inspiration Peak
"For Minnesota's Nobel Prizewinning novelist Sinclair Lewis, Inspiration Peak more than lived up to its name. From its "bald top" he wrote, "there is to be seen a glorious 20-mile circle of some 50 lakes scattered among fields and pastures, like sequins fallen on an old Paisley shawl." Praising "the enchanting peace and seclusion of this place for contemplation" Lewis at the same time chided Minnesotans for not knowing about their own "haunts of beauty." and added that he might write the governor. "asking His Excellency if he has ever stood on Inspiration Peak"