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Wisconsin's
Only Quiet Lakes!
Follow the Great Divide National Scenic Byway to the
heart of the Chequamegon National Forest 15 miles northeast of Hayward,
WI. Here the Quiet Lakes Country warmly offers you a variety of
fine resorts, foods, services and activities.
Why the Quiet Lakes? (Numbers that
protect the Quiet Lakes)
- In
1962 a speed limit was enacted prohibiting water skiing
(and jet skis are no fun at 10 M.P.H.).
- Zoning
requires 200' of lake shore per home rather than the usual
100'.
- 3 generation
resorters and homeowners actively protect this unspoiled
environment.
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 The
Romance of the Quiet Lakes includes its colorful history:
Lost Land Lake, was missing from early logger maps. As headwaters
of the Chippewa Flowage, prime pine logs were floated from the lake
to Teal Lake (Tea Lake) with its six wilderness islands and down the
Teal River. Ghost Lake's name derived from an over-served logger who
thought the wild wandering flowage disappeared in a ghostly fog. Ghost
Lake CCC Camp received the important commission by Roosevelt to replant
the ravaged forest he then designated as the Chequamegon National
Forest. The seclusion of the lakes made a perfect hideout for Chicago
gangsters who built a club house on Green Point, the only green left
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