Editing Blue Earth, Minnesota (section)

==Attractions and community achievements==
[[File:Jolly Green Giant Statue.jpg|left|thumb|upright|The Jolly Green Giant statue is 55.5' (17 m) tall]]
The Jolly Green Giant statue attracts over 14,000 visitors a year. In July 2007, the Blue Earth City Council approved space for a Green Giant memorabilia museum. In 2018 a building was built across from the Giant statue to house the museum, the Chamber and tourism offices, and the building is also the welcome center. Lowell Steen, of Blue Earth, has collected thousands of Green Giant items and will permanently loan them to the museum.<ref>[http://www.fairmontsentinel.com Fairmont Sentinel | Fairmont Sentinel<!-- Bot generated title -->]  {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070709144408/http://www.fairmontsentinel.com/ |date=July 9, 2007 }}</ref>

Steinberg Nature Park is a 33-acre (13.35 ha) park located east of Blue Earth on County Road 16. The park has a half-mile (0.8&nbsp;km) trail and a picnic shelter.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://becity.org/Default.asp?Page=199 |title=Archived copy |access-date=September 30, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140803063017/http://becity.org/Default.asp?Page=199 |archive-date=August 3, 2014 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

Prior to football playoffs the ''[[Minneapolis Star Tribune]]'' had a Coaches Poll who voted each week for the Best Football Team in the State.{{citation needed|date=June 2021}} In 1964, 1965 and 1966, the Blue Earth High School Bucs were rated #1 for 3 consecutive years holding many of their opponents to negative total yards. In 1972, the football team went 9-1 and played in the first state football playoffs and lost. The 1990 football team finished third in Minnesota for Class A. On November 24, 2012, the 2012 football team won the division 3A championship by defeating Rochester Lourdes High School by a score of 30–7.

The Blue Earth Bucs high school wrestling program has the second-most individual state champions on record in Minnesota with 50.{{citation needed|date=June 2021}}

On Sept. 10–12, 1999, [[Order of the Arrow|The Order of the Arrow]] (OA), a group within the Boy Scouts of America, held its Section C-1A Conclave in Blue Earth. Seven OA Lodges, representing councils from [[Iowa]], [[Minnesota]], [[North Dakota]] and [[South Dakota]], attended the event.