Learn About Local Cities in the
Chippewa Valley and Northwestern Wisconsin

About Pepin, WI

Pepin, Wisconsin is located 70 miles south of the Minneapolis/St. Paul metro area, 50 miles northeast of Rochester, 60 miles north of LaCrosse and 45 miles southwest of Eau Claire. The city offers amazing river town amenities including water recreation activities, cafes and restaurants, great shopping, quaint cottages, motels, and bed & breakfasts, and a large marina on Lake Pepin, a 28-mile-long, three-mile-wide natural waterway - the widest spot on the Mississippi River.

Pepin is known around the world as the birthplace of famous children's author Laura Ingalls Wilder whose first book, Little House in the Big Woods, described her time in Pepin.