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Potawatomi State Park
IUCN Category V (Protected Landscape/Seascape)
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Potawatomi State Park is located in Wisconsin
Potawatomi State Park
Potawatomi State Park
Location in Wisconsin
Potawatomi State Park is located in the United States
Potawatomi State Park
Potawatomi State Park
Location in the United States
Location Door, Wisconsin, United States
Area 1,225 acres (4.96 km2)
Established 1928
Governing body Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources
Website Potawatomi State Park

Potawatomi State Park is a 1,225-acre (496 ha) Wisconsin state park northwest of the city of Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin in the Town of Nasewaupee. It is located on Sturgeon Bay, a bay of the Bay of Green Bay in Door County. Potawatomi State Park was established in 1928.

Activities and amenities

  • Trails: The park has several hiking trails and is the eastern terminus of the Ice Age National Scenic Trail. Park trails are used for hiking, bicycling, cross-country, and snowmobiling.
  • Green Bay: The park has two miles of water frontage on Green Bay which provides opportunities for boating, canoeing, and fishing.

Climate

Weather chart for Hills Point (within the park)
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  • SturgeonBayNorthwestPotawatomiStatePark

    Looking northwest from beach at Sturgeon Bay

  • SturgeonBaySoutheastPotawatomiStatePark

    Looking southeast from beach at the city of Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin

  • View of Sturgeon Bay along the Tower Trail.

    View from Tower Trail

  • Gfp-Wisconsin-lonely-fishing-shack

    Ice fishing shack

  • Something out of nothing 2

    Eastern white cedars, Thuja occidentalis

  • Wisconsin's potawatomi state park

    Shore

  • Gfp-wisconsin-potawatomi-state-park-park-road

    Road

  • Gfp-wisconsin-potawatomi-state-park-forest

    Forest

  • Oak-Fern-&-spider

    Harvestman on an oak fern

  • Flying kites at Potawatomi State Park

    Flying kites

  • Biker Potawatomi State Park Wisconsin

    Biker down a steep hill

  • View in August from Tower in Potawatomi State Park Wisconsin

    View in August from the now-closed tower. Sawyer Harbor is in the foreground, with the western part of Sturgeon Bay in the background. The small island at right is Heaven On Earth Island, formerly Bug Island. The larger island to the left is Idyll Wood Island. Cabot Point is behind the two islands. It is part of the Idlewild area. In the far distance at center-right is the rock cut of the Old Stone Quarry on the northwest shore of Sturgeon Bay, once the largest in the state.

Images for kids

  • Trailhead, Ice Age Trail, Potawatomi State Park, Door County, Wisconsin

    Trailhead sign

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