Proud to sponsor this NW Wisconsin canoe race. A beautiful day for a canoe race. Vattenpaddler July 6, 2019. 10 mile and 5 mile canoe, kayak, SUP races on NW Wisconsin beautiful Eau Claire Chain of Lakes, Barnes and Gordon, WI.
Map of northwest Wisconsin, Eau Claire Chain of Lakes
More information at Vattenpaddler.com
I’m proud to be a sponsor of this year’s Vatten Paddlar canoe and kayak race, which will be held July 6 on the Eau Claire Chain of Lakes in Barnes, Wisconsin. I’m grateful for this opportunity to support our local community, and also to spread the word about the natural beauty of the lakes and rivers in this part of northwest Wisconsin.
The race has two events, a 10 mile race and a 5 mile race—plus various divisions within each race. There are prizes in each division, plus lots of door prizes. To learn more about the race, visit www.vattenpaddlar.com.
To learn more about the Eau Claire Chain of Lakes, visit my YouTube Channel at Jean Hedren, Your NW Wisconsin Realtor. Or, you can go straight to my playlist for Eau Claire Chain of Lakes (Barnes, WI).
For now, here’s one of my favorites, the boating channel from Middle Eau Claire Lake to Lower Eau Claire Lake:
Deciding where to buy a vacation home or retirement home in NW Wisconsin? What you can learn from our dashes back to Minneapolis/St Paul, MN.
My husband and I moved to Northwest Wisconsin 16 years ago, when we were nowhere near ready to retire (we’re still not). Our work has required both of us to make occasional trips back to the Twin Cities for meetings. We also get down to the Cities now and then to visit relatives. Even if your situation is different, there’s a lot you can learn from our dashes back to the city.
Elsewhere on my website, I’ve shared many great reasons to consider Northwest Wisconsin. We have lots of great lakes, streams, trails, public land, and more.
To get here from Minneapolis/St Paul, we can head north on I-35, hang a right at Hinckley, and be in Minong before we know it. From there, we’re almost home. From the Twin Cities, it’s an easy 2.5 hours.
So if you’re looking for a vacation home or retirement home, then what do these occasional dashes to the city have to do with you? Everything. The same thresholds will still be there. But they’ll instead determine how much enjoyment you get from your new cabin or lake home. If your drive time is beyond a certain threshold, then there will probably be fewer weekends when you get away to your weekend getaway.
Planning to move up here for good when you retire? Welcome to the neighborhood!
If places like Minong, Wascott, and Gordon aren’t yet on your radar, they should be. Same with the Minong Flowage, St Croix Flowage, Whitefish Lake, and many other small to large lakes. Barnes and Solon Springs is just a bit farther and offer Upper St Croix Lake, and the Eau Claire chain of lakes. Under the lakes and rivers tab above, you can find out more about these lakes.
Please take a moment to explore my website and find out more about the lakes and rivers of Northwest Wisconsin. Then drop me an email or give me a call at 218-590-6634. I’d be glad to show you what’s available in our neighborhood.
On his way home from a couple of real estate photography drone missions, my husband stopped the other day at Stone’s Bridge Landing to capture this aerial footage of the upper Brule River.
Al insists it was work-related, and that he wasn’t just hanging out by the river chatting with steelhead fishermen, flying his drone back and forth, and watching the aquatic vegetation wave gently in the current.
But I’m skeptical. You’ll see why when you watch this video. I mean, you can look up and down the river for miles and not see a single house. Where’s all that Northwest Wisconsin real estate we’re supposed to be selling?
Oh, well. The leaves were just beginning to turn, and it was a beautiful fall day on one of America’s premiere trout streams. If you watch carefully in the low-altitude scenes, you’ll spot a couple of trout rising to the surface. Check it out.
Near Solon Springs, Wisconsin, the Saint Croix River begins as a small creek flowing from a wetland area just north of Upper Saint Croix Lake. From this same wetland, another small stream flows northward toward Lake Superior. That trickle eventually becomes the Brule River, a world-famous destination for paddlers and anglers.
Imagine a single raindrop that falls precisely in the center of this headwaters area and strikes the edge of a certain alder leaf. After the raindrop splits in two, its northern half travels down the Brule and through all of the Great Lakes before eventually ending up in the Atlantic. Its southern half travels down the Saint Croix River and the Mississippi all the way to Gulf of Mexico. (In theory. In reality, of course, it’s all one big sponge that leaks from both ends.)
The best way to explore this special place without becoming trapped in hip-deep mud while being attacked by bloodthirsty mosquitos? Dress warmly and hike in on a January morning when the temperature is below zero. Or, if that’s not for you, then just sit back and enjoy the video.
Finally… To learn about the cabins and lake homes for sale on Upper Saint Croix Lake, give me a call at 218-590-6634. You can also visit my website at www.jeanhedrenrealtor.com. Or, you can reach me at jeanhedren@edinarealty.com.
The new Minong Flowage dam is working hard.
Narrows Trail at Gilmore Lake.
Looking downstream on the Totogatic River.
St Croix River at West Mail Rd.
Upper St Croix Lake.
