Hiking Near Me in Argonne, wi
Bastile Lake
Bastile Lake State Natural Area features an undeveloped wilderness lake surrounded by conifer swamp and a narrow stand of mature hemlock. The 47-acre lake is deep and has extremely soft water.... Read More
Giant White Pine Grove
Giant White Pine Grove features one of the best examples of mature hemlock hardwoods with a white pine supercanopy in northeastern Wisconsin. Located in the Headwaters Wilderness Area, hemlock,... Read More
Argonne Experimental Forest
Argonne Experimental Forest features the largest contiguous tract of old-growth hemlock hardwood forest on drumlinized ground moraine. These types of protected rich mesic hardwood forests are... Read More
Scott Lake and Shelp Lake
Scott Lake Road, Argonne, WI
Scott and Shelp Lake features two scenic spring-fed wilderness lakes with remnant stands of pine and hemlock. The northern mesic forest is dominated by hemlock with a few supercanopy white and... Read More
Rat Lake Swamp and Popple River Headwaters
Forest Road 2167, Argonne, WI
Rat Lake Swamp and Popple River Headwaters is important as a nearly roadless area in an extensive wetland complex providing interior forest habitat. A series of black spruce and tamarack, mixed... Read More
North Otter Creek
Forest Road 2379, Crandon, WI
North Otter Creek features a fairly extensive hemlock hardwood forest dominated by large sugar maple and eastern hemlock with basswood, and yellow birch. Situated in hummocky topography, these... Read More
Headwaters Wilderness
Officially designated as a wilderness in 1984, this 18,000 plus acre wilderness is located 16 miles southeast of Eagle River, Wis. in Forest County. Portions of this area contain some of the... Read More
Crandon Ribbed Fen
6261 Statezny Lane, Argonne, WI
Crandon Ribbed Fen features a patterned peatland community - a unique wetland type that contains a series of peat ridges (strings) and hollows (flarks) oriented parallel to the slope of the... Read More
Little Rice Wildlife Area
Little Rice Wildlife Area is a 1,900-acre property located about 4 miles west of Crandon in Forest County. The property consists of a 1,200-acre flowage on the Wolf River as well as adjacent... Read More
Alvin Creek Headwaters
Elliot Road, Crandon, WI
The Alvin Creek complex presents an excellent opportunity to protect a unique assemblage of high-quality biological communities and glacial landforms. At the heart of the complex are the Alvin... Read More
Haymeadow Flowage
Hay Meadow Road, Three Lakes, WI
Haymeadow Flowage features a core of open and wooded wetland communities associated with the Haymeadow Creek and Flowage. Of note are old-growth hemlock-hardwood stands that are rare on this... Read More
Pat Shay Lake
Forest Road 2181, Three Lakes, WI
Pat Shay Lake features a high quality wild lake surrounded by excellent old growth hemlock hardwood forests, rare on the National Forest on this LTA. Hemlock is regenerating well in canopy gaps... Read More
Brule River Cliffs State Natural Area
Blue Jay Lane, Long Lake, WI
Located on the south shore of the Brule River, Brule River Cliffs contains a series of shaded, north-facing cliffs and talus slopes -- a dolomitic outcropping of the Saunders Formation -- with... Read More
Franklin and Butternut Lakes
Camp Nicolet Road, Three Lakes, WI
The primary features of Franklin-Butternut Lakes are a number of small undeveloped lakes and several old-growth hemlock-hardwood stands in a hummocky pitted outwash terrain. The lakes are... Read More
Anvil Lake Trail State Natural Area
Military Rd, , Eagle River, WI
Anvil Lake Trail features a large, mature contiguous block of northern hardwood forest with inclusions of hemlock and scattered mature hemlock nearly throughout. Other natural communities are... Read More
The Echo Lake
Fournier Road, Three Lakes, WI
Echo Lake features a soft seepage lake and bog mat, and several stands of mature hemlock hardwoods situated on rolling moraine, which are among the oldest and least disturbed on the Nicolet.... Read More
Spur Lake State Natural Area
E Stella Lake Rd, Three Lakes, WI
Spur Lake is a 113-acre muck-bottomed soft-water drainage lake that supports dense beds of emergent, submergent, and floating-leaved aquatic plants. Wild rice is the dominant emergent species.... Read More
Swamp Creek Fen State Natural Area
Swamp Creek Fen features a diverse mosaic of community types including a high quality boreal rich fen surrounding a small alkaline bog lake. A rare open peatland community of northern... Read More
