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Rib Mountain State Park

Rib Mountain State Park is a state park in Marathon County. It was established in 1927. 2 graded lakes are within 15 miles of the park, including Big Eau Pleine Southeast Point Lake, Big Eau Pleine Lake.

Rib Mountain 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. The park is not lake-dense — 2 lakes nearby in our dataset — but Big Eau Pleine Southeast Point Lake (F) is the standout among them.

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
Marathon County
Established
1927

Nearby Graded Lakes (within 15 mi)

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

LakeCountyGradeSurface AreaDistance
Big Eau Pleine Southeast Point LakeMarathonF-14.1 mi
Big Eau Pleine LakeMarathonF-14.4 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. Lake grades are derived from EPA Water Quality Portal data using Metropolitan Council standards.

Source: EPA National Aquatic Resource Surveys, 2026.