Washington Square Mall — Local services in Detroit Lakes

The Washington Square Mall is a collection of clothing stores, a drug store, a craft store, and a gift store, with a coffee shop and Chinese restaurant thrown in for good measure. There's a small unmemorable arcade and theater as well.

It's never had the real draw of other malls, there's no food court of big name stores, and what's missing here is found most every other place, but in a smaller town like DL, Washington Square Mall is a good place to walk in Winter, a nice place to stay cool in Summer, and hosts a fair amount of little craft show events to make it a nice stop if you're in town.

I keep finding things I didn't know I needed when I visit, and for all the things it hasn't got, it...

Where are the food court options? Sick of sit down restaurants in a tiny mall. When people are going to the movies and want a meal before their movie, but don't have time to sit, where are their options? There are none, unless you're there over an hour early. This is probably the most miserable mall I've ever been to, and the only reason it has 2 stars instead of 1 is because I love the Red Willow and Craft Store in there. The coffee shop is great too, but why are there 3 sit down restaurants and not a single fast food/food court option? Seems like poor planning to me. Malls require a strategic placement of stores, and this one seems to...

Honestly it's not much besides UltimaGaming, the movie theater and I forget the eye place but they're good for a quick fix. Ultima would get 5 stars just for being like the only place for people to play games and have a safe space to do nerdy stuff! The movie theater gets 5 stars the staff is great and are really kind. The Eye place gets like 2½ stars, it just makes you uncomfortable and there's only ever like 2 people that actually work there, also they will NEVER notify you when your glasses are ready. You'll have to set a reminder to call and ask only to find out they've been...