Warroad, Minnesota

Warroad is a city in Roseau County, Minnesota, United States, at the southwest corner of Lake of the Woods, 7.5 miles (12.1 km) south of Canada.

The Ojibwe fought a long war against the Sioux for the lake's rice fields.

For many years, commercial boats provided regular service to the islands and to Kenora, Ontario, at the north end of Lake of the Woods.

The Warroad High School program has earned four men's state championship titles (1994, 1996, 2003, 2005) and four women's (2010, 2011, 2022, 2023) over 20 years, and has produced NHL and Olympic players.

No U.S. Hockey Olympic men's team has won a gold medal without a player from Warroad.

Warroad is along the southwest shore of Lake of the Woods at Muskeg Bay, east of Roseau and west of Baudette.

[10] Warroad has a humid continental climate, moderately moist, in central North America but drier than those found in New England or Ontario Eastern (Dfb in the Koppen classification).

It has one of the most rigorous winters in the contiguous United States, in which cold Arctic air can invade unobstructed and stay for up to a few weeks, and at its latitude, the hours of winter sunshine are relatively short, increasing the chill hours relative to other places of similar altitude.

Summers are moderately hot to hot as air masses advance from the Gulf of Mexico, especially in July and August, although the average annual temperature is 36.6 °F (2.6 °C) and 27.69 inches (703.3 mm) of precipitation annually, concentrated heavily in summer.

[6] In the television show The West Wing, character Donna Moss claims to be from Warroad in the episode "Dead Irish Writers".

Warroad, circa 1910
Map of Minnesota highlighting Roseau County