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The lake is a popular recreation destination in northwestern Wisconsin, in the summer for boating, canoeing, fishing, water skiing, and swimming, and in the winter for ice fishing. On the northeastern shore lies Lake Wissota State Park, popular with campers, hikers, swimmers, and anglers. In popular culture, Lake Wissota is mentioned in the ...
Following is a list of dams and reservoirs in Wisconsin.. All major dams are linked below. The National Inventory of Dams defines any "major dam" as being 50 feet (15 m) tall with a storage capacity of at least 5,000 acre-feet (6,200,000 m 3), or of any height with a storage capacity of 25,000 acre-feet (31,000,000 m 3).
Lake Wissota State Park is a 1,062-acre (430 ha) Wisconsin state park near the town of Chippewa Falls. The park is situated on the northeast shore of Lake Wissota, a reservoir on the Chippewa River. Camping, boating, and fishing are the most popular activities. Park lands are covered in a mix of pine/hardwood forests and prairie.
Logging had begun on the upper Yellow by 1861, when a log-driving dam existed at Hughey. Many such log-driving dams were built to help flush logs out. [5] By 1880 a "winter road" followed the river all the way up the river to Westboro. [6] This would be a "tote road" used by logging operations to supply their crews working upstream.
The Jim Falls Hydroelectric Dam is a hydroelectric dam on the Chippewa River by Jim Falls, Wisconsin.It is owned and operated by Xcel Energy.The dam forms Old Abe Lake. It is one of the six hydroelectric dams on the Chippewa River, the others are in Holcombe, Cornell, Wissota, Chippewa Falls, and Eau Claire.
Nov. 16—CHIPPEWA FALLS — A plan to raise the CN Railroad bridge on Lake Wissota is now off the tracks. Lafayette Town Chairman Dave Staber said a contract signed a few years ago with CN ...
The largest dam removal project in U.S. history has freed the Klamath River, inspiring hope among Indigenous activists who pushed for rewilding to help save salmon.
Lake Wissota is a census-designated place (CDP) in the town of Lafayette in Chippewa County in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. The population was 2,830 at the 2020 census. The population was 2,830 at the 2020 census.