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Goose Lake State Wildlife Area, Deerfield, WI

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Goose Lake State Wildlife Area

A 2,296-acre Dane County wildlife area with grassland, forest, marsh, and bog habitat, plus a state natural area of drumlins.

Deerfield, WI

About Goose Lake State Wildlife Area

This Wisconsin DNR property covers about 2,296 acres of grassland, hardwood forest, open marsh, sedge meadow, and tamarack bog. It sits on a wetland and drumlin landscape shaped by the retreating glacier. Mud Lake is a shallow lake of roughly 40 acres, and Goose Lake is a bog with plants not often found in southern Wisconsin. Goose Lake Drumlins State Natural Area lies inside the property and protects forested drumlins. Visitors can go birding, hunt in season, trap, snowmobile, gather wild edibles, and watch wildlife. There are no designated hiking or ski trails, no bathroom, and no campground, but six parking areas serve the land. Dogs must be leashed from April 15 to July 31.

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