Hayward, WI

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The northern third of Wisconsin seems to be the most rugged, but there are plenty of places that take the rugged right out of the word and replace it with plain old "spoil me rotten." And all the while, nature's finest is still right at your doorstep! One such place is the Hayward Lakes area of Sawyer County. Located in northwest Wisconsin, Sawyer County boasts a long history of logging and lumber jacks; the approximately 1250 sq. miles bristles with maple, hemlock, yellow birch, and white, red and jack pine...

More impressive however is the largest wilderness lake in Wisconsin: the Chippewa Flowage. Created in 1924 when the Wisconsin/Minnesota Power & Light Company completed the dam across the Chippewa River, the 17,000 acres of water in the flowage is fed by the waters of nine natural rivers; it encompasses eleven natural lakes, has 140 islands and 200 miles of undeveloped shoreline.