Wampum Lake offers year-round fishing opportunities, with nine bump-outs along nearly one mile of shoreline. Visitors can relax or play in shaded picnic areas or spot colorful spring wildflowers on a walk in the woods.
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Location & Things to Do
Wampum Lake
Entrance
Things to Do & Amenities
- Parking
- Accessible Portable Bathroom
- Fishing
- Ice Fishing
- Volunteer Opportunities
Picnic Groves
- Grove #1
- Capacity: 100 people
- Accessible Grove #2
(with shelter)- Accessible May 1 to October 31.
- Distance to parking: 155 ft
- Distance to accessible portable bathroom: 135 ft
- Capacity: 200 people
- Grove #3
- Capacity: 100 people
- Grove #4
- Capacity: 200 people
- Grove #5
- Capacity: 200 people
Hours
Year-round: Sunrise to SunsetClosures & Alerts
Wampum Lake Nature Preserve
Location
Things to Do & Amenities
- No Parking
- No Fishing
- Volunteer Opportunities
- No Dogs
- Service dogs are allowed at most public locations. View accessibility policies.
Hours
Year-round: Sunrise to SunsetClosures & Alerts
Fishing at Wampum Lake
Wampum Lake is 35 acres and has a maximum depth of 14.1 feet. Nine bump-outs are located on the southern and western shorelines allowing better access to deep water. Designated ice fishing lake.
Nature Notes
The sandy soil of Wampum Lake supports unique plant life such as skunk cabbage and cinnamon ferns. Loons, eagles and osprey stop over at the preserve on their annual migration south in fall. Spring brings colorful flowers such as wild geranium, phlox and toothwort, as well as birds such as red-breasted mergansers, great blue herons and warblers.
West of the parking lot, natural springs create wet, marshy areas in the woods, particularly in spring.
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