Herman is located approximately 180 miles northwest of Minneapolis, Minnesota, and 90 miles south of Fargo, North Dakota. Herman is accessible from interstate 94 exits in Fergus Falls and Alexandria in less than 45 minutes. It is 20 minutes plus from Morris, Elbow Lake, and Wheaton. It is nestled between rich sugar beet and wheat fields to the north and hearty corn and soybean lands to south.  
 
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Information about the City of Herman 
Herman is in West Central Minnesota. It is a gathering place for farmers and people who serve farmers. It is a port for farm products. Its tall elevator - a kind of lighthouse on the prairie - gathers grain from a broad area and ships it in long unit trains west to the Pacific Ocean and east to the Mississippi River. 
 
Although those who come to live in Herman praise the community most for its friendliness, Herman also has its fame. For eons, geologists have known it for its big beach. Many years ago, a state organization named Herman Minnesota's "Model Town." More recently, Herman bachelors were the rage of the romantic world. (A movie about Herman's bachelors, Herman, USA, was shown at Minneapolis' historic State Theatre Friday, April 6, 2001.) See the Minneapolis Star Tribune story about it here. 
 
The big beach is Herman Beach, the outermost beach of ancient glacial Lake Agassiz, which was first the source of the Minnesota River, then of the Red River of the North. The gravel ridge that marks the beach swoops down to Herman from northern Minnesota and northern North Dakota. The big lake is gone, of course, but several small lakes remain, which, along with numerous wildlife areas, make Herman an excellent area for hunting deer, pheasants, ducks, and geese. Herman is also an excellent area for fishing, summer and winter, for walleyes and northerns. A group of avid fisherpeople use those lakes and others a little further away for a weekly expedition of fun and frolic that they call a Fishing League. They even catch fish. 
 
Thanks to regional, national, and international media, Herman became famous in 1994 and 1995 for its abundance of bachelors. The publicity drew thousands of people to the Grant County Fair in Herman those two summers, and many of the bachelors are now married. One already has three children. The excitement has subsided, but the memory lingers. 
 
Herman is an attractive town with a K-12 school, four churches, a shopping district that meets basic needs, and a mix of older and new homes and apartments. It has two large parks nearby: Pine Ridge Park with a lake for swimming and fishing to the north, and Niemackl Lake Park, the site of the annual Herman Iron Pour, to the south of town. But what people who move to Herman say they like best about the community are the friendliness, fun, and frolic of the people.