Hiking Near Me in Mercer, wi
Underwood Wildlife Area
Underwood Wildlife Area is a 1,602-acre property located in northeast Iron County. It was purchased by the Wisconsin Conservation Department (now the DNR) in the 1940s and 1950s to protect the... Read More
Frog Lake And Pines State Natural Area
WI-47, Mercer, WI
Frog Lake and Pines features an undisturbed wilderness lake surrounded by old-growth northern dry-mesic forest in a large lowland bordering the Manitowish River. The 42-acre lake is a deep,... Read More
Lake Evelyn State Natural Area
Co Hwy G, Mercer, WI
Lake Evelyn is an undeveloped 55-acre soft-water seepage lake surrounded by wetlands and gently rolling uplands. While many of northern Wisconsin lakes of this size are already developed or are... Read More
DuPage Lake Peatlands State Natural Area
Cedar Lake Cir, Mercer, WI
DuPage Lake Peatlands features a vast peatland complex just north of the Manitowish River. Open bog, muskeg, and black spruce swamp are the predominant vegetation although scattered patches of... Read More
Moose Lake State Natural Area
Moose Lake Rd, Mercer, WI
Moose Lake is an exceptional example of a large, undeveloped lake in a wilderness setting. The 270-acre soft water drainage lake has a maximum depth of 12 feet and harbors a diversity of... Read More
Toy Lake Swamp State Natural Area
1042 Cir Lilly Rd, Manitowish Waters, WI
Toy Lake Swamp is a large wetland complex of hardwood swamp, white cedar swamp, and alder thicket surrounding a basin containing a shallow, drained lake with dense aquatic and wetland... Read More
Turtle-Flambeau Scenic Waters Area
Flowage Rd, Park Falls, WI
Undisturbed, wooded shorelines and islands offer the opportunity to boat, camp, fish and enjoy the outdoors in wild and rugged northern Wisconsin. Spread across 40,000 acres in Iron County, the... Read More
Catherine Lake Hemlock-Hardwoods State Natural Area
Bruette Rd, Mercer, WI
Catherine Lake Hemlock-Hardwoods features an extensive stand of mature, mesic forest on rolling moraine located on the east side of Catherine Lake. Although the forest varies in quality and... Read More
Mary Lake State Natural Area
Adelaide Rd, Mercer, WI
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The 3-acre Mary Lake is one of very few known meromictic lakes in Wisconsin. Meromixis, the permanent thermal stratification of the water, results from the... Read More
Springstead Muskeg State Natural Area
Springstead Lakes Rd, Park Falls, WI
Springstead Muskeg encompasses the northernmost portion of an extensive undisturbed bog complex stretching from Springstead Lake south to Newman Lake. The wetland is located in pitted glacial... Read More
Bass Lake Preserve State Natural Area
Duck Lake Rd, Park Falls, WI
Situated within a landscape of gently rolling pitted outwash, Bass Lake Preserve contains a small, 15-acre, undeveloped soft-water seepage lake, which still retains wilderness characteristics.... Read More
Island Lake Hemlocks State Natural Area
Island Lake Rd, Hurley, WI
Island Lake Hemlocks features one of the oldest and most intact old-growth hemlock-hardwood stands in northern Wisconsin. They are extremely rare on today's landscape. This site still contains... Read More
Powell Marsh Wildlife Area
Powell Road, Manitowish Waters, WI
Powell Marsh State Wildlife Area is approximately 4,303 acres located in Vilas County. Find it 3 miles south of Manitowish Waters and 10 miles north of Lac du Flambeau. The wildlife area is on... Read More
Headwater Lakes State Natural Area
Forest Rd 514, Lac du Flambeau, WI
Headwater Lakes features two unique soft-water lakes, Wabasso Lake and Cedar Lake. Wabasso Lake is a 49-acre deep, seepage lake with a diverse and unusual aquatic flora. The submerged aquatic... Read More
Tucker Lake Hemlocks State Natural Area
Amik Lake Ln, Park Falls, WI
Tucker Lake Hemlocks contains an old-growth hemlock and yellow birch forest located on Tucker Lake, a large, undeveloped soft-water drainage lake. The forest shows some evidence of past... Read More
Doering Woods State Natural Area
Forest Rd 144, Park Falls, WI
Doering Woods is a mature stand of hemlock-hardwoods which has a history of selective cutting throughout. Canopy dominants are hemlock, and yellow birch. Canopy associates include red maple,... Read More
Chippewa Trail State Natural Area
Fs916 Rd, , Lac du Flambeau, WI
Chippewa Trail features a mosaic of northern mesic, dry-mesic, wet-mesic and wet forest and open bog communities with small acid bog ponds. Overall, the forest is of natural origin that, if... Read More
Memorial Grove Hemlocks State Natural Area
Memorial Grove Hemlocks features an excellent example of old-growth hemlock forest dominated by hemlock with yellow birch and sugar maple and exhibiting very little evidence of human... Read More
Patterson Hemlocks State Natural Area
Resv Hwy 28, Lac du Flambeau, WI
Patterson Hemlocks protects a large block of old-growth northern mesic forest on an isthmus between Clear and Fuller Lakes with large hemlock, yellow birch, and white pine throughout. The tract... Read More
Rice Creek State Natural Area
Keego Rd E,, Boulder Junction, WI
Rice Creek SNA features a two-mile stretch of creek surrounded by a large wetland complex of conifer swamp, boreal rich fen, sedge meadow, and northern wet-mesic forest. White cedar dominates... Read More
