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Parks & Nature

Scott Lake-Shelp Lake State Natural Area

This trail is a little difficult to find but a whole lot of fun. You will drive through dirt roads and will enjoy the purity of the forest. Every time we go we get to see bears! The hike is very short but the view are outstanding. This will be a great activity for days that you are not into much physical activity or for family with younger kids.

Scott Lake-Shelp Lake State Natural Area

Scott Lake Road

This trail is a little difficult to find but a whole lot of fun. You will drive through dirt roads and will enjoy the purity of the forest. Every time we go we get to see bears! The hike is very short but the view are outstanding. This will be a great activity for days that you are not into much physical activity or for family with younger kids.

Dave's Falls

This park is about an hour from the cabin but its worth the time. It is close to 12 Foot Falls County park which will make a great day for camping, hiking and nature watching. You will get to see 4!!! of Wisconsin's many waterfalls.

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Dave's Falls

Old 141 Road

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This park is about an hour from the cabin but its worth the time. It is close to 12 Foot Falls County park which will make a great day for camping, hiking and nature watching. You will get to see 4!!! of Wisconsin's many waterfalls.

Argonne Experimental Forest

Pine Lake

This is the lake right in our neighborhood! Pine Lake is a 1673 acre lake and has a maximum depth of 15 feet. Our guests have access to the lake from the public boat landings located just about 200 ft from the cabin. Fish include Panfish, Largemouth Bass, Smallmouth Bass, Northern Pike and Walleye. This is an active lake all year round.

Pine Lake

This is the lake right in our neighborhood! Pine Lake is a 1673 acre lake and has a maximum depth of 15 feet. Our guests have access to the lake from the public boat landings located just about 200 ft from the cabin. Fish include Panfish, Largemouth Bass, Smallmouth Bass, Northern Pike and Walleye. This is an active lake all year round.

Anvil Lake Trail State Natural Area

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 northern wet forest and soft-water springs. Hemlock regeneration is significant. On nearly level topography to hummocky with steep slopes, a large majority of forest is dominated by sugar maple with sizable stands dominated by white pine, hemlock, red oak, or older aspen. The pines date from 1888 and some hemlock is older. The best stands have many large hardwoods and hemlock in the 22-28 inch diameter range. Super-canopy white pine is also present through much of the site. Yellow birch and basswood are also common. The understory varies from open and park-like to dense hazelnut thickets. A number of large snags and tip-ups are common and coarse woody debris is occasional. The groundlayer supports Canada mayflower, intermediate wood fern, lycopods, and rough-leaved rice cut grass. Birds include veery, pine siskin, evening grosbeak, ruby-crowned kinglet, Nashville warbler, black-throated blue warbler, and yellow-bellied flycatcher. Numerous trees of all types and size classes, large snags, and the open character of the understory contribute to the developing old growth structure of this site. Anvil Lake Trail is owned by the US Forest Service and was designated a State Natural Area in 2007.

Anvil Lake Trail State Natural Area

Military Road

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 northern wet forest and soft-water springs. Hemlock regeneration is significant. On nearly level topography to hummocky with steep slopes, a large majority of forest is dominated by sugar maple with sizable stands dominated by white pine, hemlock, red oak, or older aspen. The pines date from 1888 and some hemlock is older. The best stands have many large hardwoods and hemlock in the 22-28 inch diameter range. Super-canopy white pine is also present through much of the site. Yellow birch and basswood are also common. The understory varies from open and park-like to dense hazelnut thickets. A number of large snags and tip-ups are common and coarse woody debris is occasional. The groundlayer supports Canada mayflower, intermediate wood fern, lycopods, and rough-leaved rice cut grass. Birds include veery, pine siskin, evening grosbeak, ruby-crowned kinglet, Nashville warbler, black-throated blue warbler, and yellow-bellied flycatcher. Numerous trees of all types and size classes, large snags, and the open character of the understory contribute to the developing old growth structure of this site. Anvil Lake Trail is owned by the US Forest Service and was designated a State Natural Area in 2007.

Goodman County Park

About a 1 hr drive away, this park offers trout fishing, a bridge over Strong Falls on the upper Peshtigo River, camping, two lodges for day use rental, picnic area, playground, hiking-skiing trail, huge red pines, excellent scenery and even a cabin available for overnight stays. 15-site rustic(no electricity) campground on the Peshtigo River.

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Goodman County Park

15201 Goodman Park Rd

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About a 1 hr drive away, this park offers trout fishing, a bridge over Strong Falls on the upper Peshtigo River, camping, two lodges for day use rental, picnic area, playground, hiking-skiing trail, huge red pines, excellent scenery and even a cabin available for overnight stays. 15-site rustic(no electricity) campground on the Peshtigo River.

Little Rice State Wildlife Area

Little Rice Wildlife Area is a 1,900-acre property located about 4 miles west of the city of Crandon in Forest County. The property consists of a 1,200-acre flowage on the Wolf River as well as adjacent wetlands and upland forest. There is a large bed of wild rice on the flowage that attracts migrating waterfowl. Floating bog and floating tamarack islands occur on parts of the flowage. A wide variety of wetland wildlife inhabit the property. The large flowage is known locally for panfish and northern pike fishing opportunities. The flowage supports a large population of muskrats and beaver. Two pairs of bald eagles, an osprey pair and a small Great blue heron rookery occur on the property. There are two drive-in boat landings and one walk-in canoe landing on the flowage.

Little Rice State Wildlife Area

Little Rice Wildlife Area is a 1,900-acre property located about 4 miles west of the city of Crandon in Forest County. The property consists of a 1,200-acre flowage on the Wolf River as well as adjacent wetlands and upland forest. There is a large bed of wild rice on the flowage that attracts migrating waterfowl. Floating bog and floating tamarack islands occur on parts of the flowage. A wide variety of wetland wildlife inhabit the property. The large flowage is known locally for panfish and northern pike fishing opportunities. The flowage supports a large population of muskrats and beaver. Two pairs of bald eagles, an osprey pair and a small Great blue heron rookery occur on the property. There are two drive-in boat landings and one walk-in canoe landing on the flowage.

Franklin & Butternut Lakes State Natural Area

Description 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 mostly of the soft water seepage type and range from Sunfish Lake, with its sandy bottom and sterile rosette flora, to a string of bog lakes on the north side of Franklin Lake. Included in the complex is the Bose Lake Hemlock-Hardwoods Research Natural Area, a fine old-growth stand with no evidence of cutting. Mature hemlock, sugar maple, yellow birch, and basswood dominate the forest with paper birch, balsam fir, and red maple are among the other trees present. The forest floor has an accumulation of fallen trees, tip-up mounds, and many cradle knolls. A relatively recent blowdown occurred on the south end of the stand with many large trees on the ground, all of which fell in an ENE direction. The resulting canopy gaps are filled with sugar maple seedlings and saplings. Characteristic groundlayer species are intermediate wood fern, wild sarsaparilla, large leaved aster, Canada mayflower, and club-mosses. Two rare lichens that require old-growth conditions have been found here. Several interconnected stands of hemlock-dominated old growth are on the isthmus between Franklin and Butternut Lakes. The Franklin Nature Trail winds through a portion of them. Smaller stands of old growth hemlock are found on the east side of Sunfish Lake, on the landward end of the sand spit on the north side of Franklin Lake, and on a long esker-like ridge in the vicinity of Two Dutchmen Lake. A few small stands of mature red and white pine occur on the dryer sandy loam soils, while most of the better hardwood and hemlock stands are on silt loams. The hardwood stands are generally sugar maple-dominated with yellow birch, basswood, and white ash as common associates. Bogs, black spruce-tamarack swamps, and small areas of bluejoint grass occupy the lowlands. Ecological gradients, for the most part, are intact. North of Franklin Lake, separated from the main body of the complex, is an area of bogs, bog lakes, and associated conifer swamps set in sandy, cut-over uplands with occasional intact groves of hemlock and red and white pine. Many of the wetland types here are of very good quality. A sand spit anchored by alder and red maple extends far out into Franklin Lake. The lakeshore to the north of the sand spit consists of a long beach ridge and a narrow damp swale supporting mature white pine with royal fern beneath. The lakeward side of the beach ridge is bordered by alder grading to a large floating sedge mat with a good mix of species. The numerous large old trees and snags situated near lakeshores provide important nesting sites for bald eagles and the lakes see much use by common loons. Other characteristic birds include blackburnian and black throated green warblers, red breasted nuthatch, winter wren, and pileated woodpecker. Originally designated as the 25-acre Bose Lake State Natural Area in 1974, Franklin and Butternut Lakes is owned by the U.S. Forest Service and was expanded in 2007. This site is also recognized by the Forest Service as an established Research Natural Area.

Franklin & Butternut Lakes State Natural Area

Camp Nicolet Road

Description 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 mostly of the soft water seepage type and range from Sunfish Lake, with its sandy bottom and sterile rosette flora, to a string of bog lakes on the north side of Franklin Lake. Included in the complex is the Bose Lake Hemlock-Hardwoods Research Natural Area, a fine old-growth stand with no evidence of cutting. Mature hemlock, sugar maple, yellow birch, and basswood dominate the forest with paper birch, balsam fir, and red maple are among the other trees present. The forest floor has an accumulation of fallen trees, tip-up mounds, and many cradle knolls. A relatively recent blowdown occurred on the south end of the stand with many large trees on the ground, all of which fell in an ENE direction. The resulting canopy gaps are filled with sugar maple seedlings and saplings. Characteristic groundlayer species are intermediate wood fern, wild sarsaparilla, large leaved aster, Canada mayflower, and club-mosses. Two rare lichens that require old-growth conditions have been found here. Several interconnected stands of hemlock-dominated old growth are on the isthmus between Franklin and Butternut Lakes. The Franklin Nature Trail winds through a portion of them. Smaller stands of old growth hemlock are found on the east side of Sunfish Lake, on the landward end of the sand spit on the north side of Franklin Lake, and on a long esker-like ridge in the vicinity of Two Dutchmen Lake. A few small stands of mature red and white pine occur on the dryer sandy loam soils, while most of the better hardwood and hemlock stands are on silt loams. The hardwood stands are generally sugar maple-dominated with yellow birch, basswood, and white ash as common associates. Bogs, black spruce-tamarack swamps, and small areas of bluejoint grass occupy the lowlands. Ecological gradients, for the most part, are intact. North of Franklin Lake, separated from the main body of the complex, is an area of bogs, bog lakes, and associated conifer swamps set in sandy, cut-over uplands with occasional intact groves of hemlock and red and white pine. Many of the wetland types here are of very good quality. A sand spit anchored by alder and red maple extends far out into Franklin Lake. The lakeshore to the north of the sand spit consists of a long beach ridge and a narrow damp swale supporting mature white pine with royal fern beneath. The lakeward side of the beach ridge is bordered by alder grading to a large floating sedge mat with a good mix of species. The numerous large old trees and snags situated near lakeshores provide important nesting sites for bald eagles and the lakes see much use by common loons. Other characteristic birds include blackburnian and black throated green warblers, red breasted nuthatch, winter wren, and pileated woodpecker. Originally designated as the 25-acre Bose Lake State Natural Area in 1974, Franklin and Butternut Lakes is owned by the U.S. Forest Service and was expanded in 2007. This site is also recognized by the Forest Service as an established Research Natural Area.

Things to do... Places to visit

Food Scene

Main Street Ed's

Tricia's Treasures & Bistro

Sunset Grill

Black Forest Pub & Grille

Yeti's Drive-In

Cindy's Country Cafe

Parks & Nature

Scott Lake-Shelp Lake State Natural Area

Dave's Falls

Argonne Experimental Forest

Pine Lake

Anvil Lake Trail State Natural Area

Goodman County Park

Little Rice State Wildlife Area

Franklin & Butternut Lakes State Natural Area

Essentials

Schaefers IGA

Shopping

Dollar General

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Group Therapy Crandon

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