Waconia is a city in Carver County, Minnesota, United States. Waconia attracts visitors to nearby Lake Waconia, a lake locally renowned for its fishing and recreation opportunities.
View of Lake Waconia
Sunset behind a water tower in Waconia
Carver County Historical Society Museum
Waconia City Hall
Carver County is a county in the U.S. state of Minnesota. The county is mostly farmland and wilderness with many unincorporated townships. As of the 2020 census, the population was 106,922. Its county seat is Chaska. Carver County is named for explorer Jonathan Carver, who in 1766–67, traveled from Boston to the Minnesota River and wintered among the Sioux near the site of New Ulm. Carver County is part of the Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Carver County Sheriff's Office and Justice Center in Chaska, Minnesota
Lake Waconia
Soils of the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum area
Soils of Carver County