Michigan Points of Interest

Loda Lake National Wildflower Sanctuary


Loda Lake is an area that includes a small spring-fed lake, a bog-like wetland area, a creek and riparian marshy areas, oak forest, pine plantations, and an early successional old farm site.  Botanist Clayton Bazuin noted, “Loda Lake is ideally suited as a wildflower sanctuary and although near one of Michigan’s busy highways, can still be a natural reservoir of wild plants. This is due to the large number of ecological associations it affords in which they may survive".

Loda Lake is the only Wildflower sanctuary in the National Forest System, a project supported both financially and botanically by the Michigan Garden Clubs for over seventy years.


LODA LAKE NATIONAL WILDFLOWER SANCTUARY
Campground Restrictions
As a visitor to the National Forest, you are asked to follow certain rules designed to protect the Forest, natural resources and to provide for public safety of visitors. These rules are available to you on-line or at any office of the Huron-Manistee National Forests. Please take time to read and understand them. General Topic orders apply across the Forests. Applicable Orders -
  • Motorized Vehicle Use of Roads, Trails and Off-road Areas
  • Occupancy and Use
Allowed  Hiking; Pets on Leash; Nonmotorized Snow Use (trail is not groomed); Nonmotorized Mechanized Equipment Prohibited All snow and nonsnow Motorized Vehicles; Pack and Saddle Animals, Llamas; Camping; Mountain Bikes

Points of Interest
Location
Loda Lake National Wildflower Sanctuary

Nearby Camping
Location Campsites Reservations Toilets Showers Elevation
Nichols Lake 34 910 ft
Government Landing 3 781 ft
Sawkaw Lake 9 981 ft
Seaton Creek 47 872 ft
Gleasons Landing 14 773 ft
Indian Lake 7 966 ft
Pettibone Lake Numerous 897 ft
Brookside City Park 12 705 ft
Silver Creek - State Forest 26 942 ft
Utley Lake 9 808 ft
Peterson Bridge 26 820 ft
Bray Creek - State Forest 9 853 ft
Old Grade 20 874 ft
Lincoln Bridge - State Forest 9 924 ft
Lake Dubonnet Trail Camp - State Forest 50 864 ft
Minnie Pond 18 850 ft
Ed H. Henning Park 60 700 ft
Highbanks 9 956 ft
Dorner Lake 8 853 ft
Garey Lake Trail Camp - State Forest 15 860 ft
Carrieville - State Forest 25 956 ft
Benton Lake 66 840 ft
Diamond Lake Co Park 60 953 ft
Condon Lake 6 919 ft
Leverentz Lake - State Forest 25 847 ft
Fremont Lake City Park Numerous 747 ft
Sand Lake - Manistee 118 906 ft

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