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Oakwood Lakes State Park offers excellent swimming and boating on eight glacial lakes as well as hiking and horseback riding on miles of trails.
Walleye, perch, northern pike and bullhead are fished from the lakes year-round. A fishing pier is accessible to people of all ages and abilities. Canoes can be rented in the park.
Hikers follow a .75-mile trail on Boy Scout Island. There's an additional four miles of bridle trails, which are groomed for cross-country skiers in winter. Bicyclists can explore the park's scenic roads.
During cold weather, a warming house with wood-burning stove provides shelter and heat to those who come to ice fish or cross-country ski.
The park is located on a migratory flyway and many types of waterfowl stop here from spring through fall. Deer, groundhogs, fox and rabbits also live in the park.
Three burial mounds are a reminder of the Native Americans who once gathered here each summer. The restored cabin of Samuel Mortimer, the first white man to settle at Oakwood Lakes, stands on the south shore of the lake that bears his name.
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Three burial mounds are reminders of the Native American Indians who used to gather in the Oakwood Lakes area.
A colorful catamaran speeds across one of the lakes at Oakwood Lakes State Park.
Samuel Mortimer, the first white man to settle at Oakwood Lakes, built this cabin in 1869 on the south shore of a lake that bears his name.
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