Hiking Near Me in Phelps, wi
Beaver Creek State Natural Area
Beaver Creek features high quality natural communities associated with the Vilas-Oneida Outwash Plains landtype including northern dry-mesic forest, northern wet forest, and open bog. The... Read More
Kentuck Lake State Natural Area
Kentuck Lake features a unique 0.7 mile long, 10-20 meter wide swale flanked by two narrow, curving sandy ridges that parallel the north shore of Kentuck Lake. Wind and wave action, in concert... Read More
Blackjack Springs State Natural Area
Blackjack Rd,, Eagle River, WI
Blackjack Springs is located on pitted sandy outwash south of the Deerskin River and drumlinized ground moraine to the southeast that supports extensive stands of mature, mostly dry-mesic... Read More
Haymeadow Creek State Natural Area
Forest Rd 2205,, Land O Lakes, WI
Haymeadow Creek features a large, wet meadow interspersed with elevated islands forested with jack pine, red pine, and white pine. Wet areas contain a thin sphagnum carpet with a ground layer... 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
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
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
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
Johnson Lake Barrens and Springs State Natural Area
Johnson Lake Barrens and Springs contains open communities of pine barrens and bracken grassland perched on the sandy glacial outwash plain that gently slopes toward the lake. Dominant trees... Read More
Spruce Grouse Swamp
US-45, Conover, WI
Spruce Grouse Swamp is part of an extensive wetland complex southwest of Lac Vieux Desert and features a mosaic of lowland community types including northern sedge meadow, muskeg, black spruce... 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
Upper Bucktabon Springs State Natural Area
4336 CTH S, , Conover, WI
Upper Buckatabon Springs features a complex of at least five undeveloped soft-water springs and spring ponds that drain into the upper reaches of the Wisconsin River. Collectively, these... 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
