This United States Post Office is located on 1st Avenue in Sturgeon Lake, Minnesota. The post office is located close to Laketown Road, which sees 1,665 vehicles per day, and Farm to Market Road, which sees 1,145 vehicles per day. This location is adjacent to Sturgeon Lake City Hall and near Sturgeon Lake Oil and Woodlands National Bank. Sturgeon Lake is located in Pine County, Minnesota with a total area of 3.69 miles. Sturgeon Lake has numerous restaurants and bars in the area. Some of these include Doc’s Bar and Grill, Ray & Marge’s Resort, Mikey’s Bar, Embassy Bar & Lounge, Earnie’s Diner, The Coop, and more. The city is named after the large lake that lies east of the downtown area. Covering 1405 acres with a max depth of 40 feet, the lake is a large attraction to those who do not live in the town. The lake is known for its array of fish including northern pike, walleye, largemouth bass, smallmouth bass, crappie, sunfish, perch, and rock bass. Sturgeon Lake boasted the state record walleye for some time with a 16 pound eight ounce specimen caught in 1949. Sturgeon Lake is located about 50 miles from Duluth, Minnesota. At the westernmost point of the Great Lakes on the north shore of Lake Superior, Duluth is linked to the Atlantic Ocean 2,300 miles away via a series of canals along the Great Lakes. Duluth forms a metropolitan area with Superior, Wisconsin. Called the Twin Ports, these two cities share the Duluth-Superior Harbor and together are the world's largest inland port and one of the most important ports on the Great Lakes, shipping coal, iron ore (taconite), and grain. As a tourist destination for the Midwest, Duluth features America's only all-freshwater aquarium, the Great Lakes Aquarium, the Aerial Lift Bridge which spans the short canal into Duluth's harbor, "Park Point", the world's longest freshwater sandbar, spanning 6 miles, and is a launching point for the North Shore. The city is also home to several institutions of higher education, including University of Minnesota – Duluth (with enrollment nearing 10,000).