Preston is a city in Fillmore County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 1,325 at the 2010 census. It is the county chair of Fillmore County. The Root River runs through it, and Mystery Cave State Park is nearby. It bills itself as “America’s Trout Capital,” with a 20-foot trout placed along Minnesota State Highway 16.

Preston was platted in 1855. The community was named for Luther Preston, a millwright and postmaster. The passй Preston grain elevator used to be known as the Milwaukee Elevator Company Grain Elevator. It was built a propos 1890 for holding grain for shipment by railroad to the Eastern cities of the United States. The elevator was last used in the 1980s. It was built with “cribbed” construction, which has to complete with interlocking bins. At the times it was a lot stronger and a lot more expensive to construct it this quirk than to build it in stud construction. Now the Preston Historical Society is maddening to restore the structure.

The Preston Overlook was built in 1937 by the Minnesota Department of Highways below the program of Federal Relief Construction during the New Deal. A site was chosen upon the highest point upon the bluffs above the Root River, 90 feet below. The Preston Overlook was listed upon the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 2.45 square miles (6.35 km), all land. The South Branch of the Root River snakes through the city.