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Potawatomi State Park

Potawatomi State Park is a state park in Door County. It was established in 1928. 6 graded lakes are within 15 miles of the park, including Clark Lake, Inlet To Dunes Lake, Dunes Lake.

Potawatomi State Park is a Wisconsin State Park covering an unrecorded acreage acres. State parks are the most heavily-developed of the public-land designations — campground, picnic, boat-launch, interpretive-center. 6 graded lakes are within easy reach of the park, with an average grade of C. Clark Lake (A) is the cleanest of the set.

State parks pair well with the LakeGrade dataset: the park itself usually has interpretive signage explaining the local lake system, but the per-lake grade tells you which actual lake in the system to head to.

Designation
State Park
County
Door County
Established
1928

Nearby Graded Lakes (within 15 mi)

Lakes closest to Potawatomi State Park, weighted by size. Click a lake for its full water quality grade, fish species, and depth.

LakeCountyGradeSurface AreaDistance
Clark LakeDoorA865 acres11.3 mi
Inlet To Dunes LakeDoorB48 acres7.5 mi
Dunes LakeDoorC48 acres7.6 mi
Dunes Lake Just Us of OutletDoorB-7.8 mi
Forestville Flowage LakeDoorF65 acres12.2 mi
Forestville MillpondDoorF65 acres12.4 mi

Other Parks in the Area

Park location and metadata sourced from Wikidata. For trail maps, camping reservations, and current conditions, visit the official WI DNR page. Lake grades are derived from EPA Water Quality Portal data using Metropolitan Council standards.

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Source: EPA National Aquatic Resource Surveys, 2026.