Hiking Near Me in Laona, wi
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
Deer Mountain
Bay Shore Road, Athelstane, WI
Situated on hummocky topography, Deer Mountain features a northern mesic forest with a canopy of sugar maple, basswood, and occasional beech. The groundlayer is dominated by sugar maple... Read More
McCaslin Mountain
Forest Road 2141, Athelstane, WI
McCaslin Mountain is a four-mile long quartzite hill with a local relief of more 200 feet. The hill's shallow soils, numerous rock outcrops, and shaded quartzite cliffs are unusual in this... 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
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
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
Diamond Roof State Natural Area
Diamond Roof features upland hardwoods, fast rocky creeks, mixed conifer swamp, and lakes and spring ponds. The northern hardwood forest has a diverse assemblage of sugar maple, basswood, 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
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
Popple River Corridor State Natural Area
Morgan Lake Rd, Armstrong Creek, WI
Popple River Corridor is a complex of wetlands and adjacent uplands situated along the Popple River. The uplands contain fire-origin white and red pine aged at about 100 years. The understory... Read More
Hedmark Pines State Natural Area
Morgan Lake Rd, Armstrong Creek, WI
The highlight of Hedmark Pines is the natural origin pine occurring along the Popple River with most late successional stands containing a canopy of pure red pine. Super-canopy pines are found... Read More
Wheeler Lake State Natural Area
Wheeler Lake contains a wetland complex with several scattered stands of older growth hemlock and fire origin red pine. The site is remote, poorly roaded, and adjacent to the Goodman tract. The... Read More
Woods Creek State Natural Area
Woods Creek features northern mesic, wet-mesic, and wet forest within a wetland mosaic of numerous ephemeral ponds and small bogs and swamps in a hummocky landscape. A tributary of Woods Creek... Read More
Grandma Lake Wetlands State Natural Area
Lost Lake Rd, Long Lake, WI
Grandma Lake Wetlands contains a 44-acre pristine soft water bog lake surrounded by an open mat that supports an unusual and diverse flora. Ringing the lake is a wide, open mat of sphagnum... 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
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
Haley Creek Swamp State Natural Area
Creek Rd, Florence, WI
Haley Creek Swamp features an undisturbed wetland complex with two undeveloped spring ponds, fen, old-growth conifer swamp, and a mile-long cold-water stream segment. Black spruce, white cedar,... Read More
