{"id":31546,"count":1,"description":"Ottertail is a city in Otter Tail County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 572 at the 2010 census.\nAccording to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 5.1 square miles (13\u00a0km), of which, 4.4 square miles (11\u00a0km) of it is land and 0.8 square miles (2.1\u00a0km) of it (14.59%) is water.\nMinnesota State Highways 78 and 108 are two of the main routes in the community.\nLong before there were roads in this area of the country, the best method of travel was by water. Two of these water highways are the Leaf Lake chain, which drains south to the Gulf of Mexico, and Otter Tail Lake, which drains north to Hudson Bay. Because of its strategic position, Native Americans and early explorers often held meetings on the shores of \"La Queue de Loutre\", so named because of the long sand bar separating the lake from the river, which looked like \u2013 and still looks like (two centuries later) \u2013 an otter's tail. In the mid-19th century, a fur trader named Donald McDonald started...","link":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/tag\/ottertail\/","name":"Ottertail","slug":"ottertail","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/31546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/post_tag"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?tags=31546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}