Let's have a look at Minnesota’s coolest lake cabins for summer fishing trips, where you can cast lines from private docks, breathe in pine-scented air, and relax with full cabin comfort at day’s end.

For those who love lake life but prefer to reside in the suburbs instead of the North Woods, there’s a premium price to pay: Metro-area lakeshore is some of the most expensive sand in the Twin Cities.

It would be a simple building surrounded by pines, maybe 400 square feet, with bookshelves, a woodstove and a sleeping loft. A trail would lead to the lake and you’d pad along it barefoot, inhaling ...