Hiking Near Me in Elcho, wi
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
Bogus Swamp State Natural Area
The aptly named Bogus Swamp is actually an extensive variety of northern wetland types, but none are remotely swamp. Featured is a large muskeg of stunted, scattered black spruce and tamarack... Read More
Enterprise Hemlocks State Natural Area
3611 Shingle Mill Rd, Pelican Lake, WI
Enterprise Hemlocks features stands of mature mesic forest heavily dominated by hemlock with some very old trees present. In the mid 1980's, road crews cut 13 hemlocks for a road improvement... 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
Peters Marsh Wildlife Area
Peters Marsh Wildlife Area covers 1,687 acres in central Langlade County. The property is made up of a variety of habitat types including forests, fields, wetlands and native grasslands. The... 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
Lawrence Lake State Natural Area
Polar Rd, Bryant, WI
Lawrence Lake features an undeveloped wild lake surrounded by northern wet-mesic forest, bog, and shrubs. The 50-acre seepage lake has very soft, slightly acid, clear water. The area... Read More
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
Sugar Camp Hemlocks State Natural Area
Fire Ln, Rhinelander, WI
Situated on gently rolling terrain, Sugar Camp Hemlocks features an old-growth hemlock dominated forest, apparently of fire origin. Dense stands of large 9-15 inch hemlock are present with... 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
One Stone Lake Hemlocks State Natural Area
Situated along the northern boundary of Thunder Lake Wildlife Area and the Rice Lake natural area, One Stone Lake Hemlocks supports stands of mature mesic forest with some old-growth... Read More
Atkins Lake and Hiles Swamp
Atkins Lake is a soft-water drainage lake lying within a vast conifer swamp (Hiles Swamp) on the Oneida/Forest county line. The lake is unusual in that the entire basin supports moderate to... Read More
Thunder Lake Wildlife Area
Thunder Lake Wildlife Area is a 3,000-acre property located in northeast Oneida County, one mile north of the village of Three Lakes. It consists of 50% open peat wetland (poor fen) and 50% ... Read More
Rice Lake State Natural Area
Rice Lake is a large, shallow, soft water drainage lake, with outstanding wild rice production which varies from year to year depending on the lake level. Surrounding the lake are a sedge... Read More
