Bethel fits inside a square mile. You can stand at the corner of Main Street and Dewey with a cold beer in your hand and see most of the town from where you're standing. That is not a shortcoming. It is the point.
Most summer guides to small Minnesota towns pad their word counts with drive times to the next county. This one stays inside the city limits, then walks you to the water. If you have lived here longer than a year, you already know the outline. What follows is a case for treating the outline as a plan.
