Loda Lake National Wildflower Sanctuary

Loda Lake is an area that includes a small spring-fed lake, a bog-like wetland area, a creek and riparian marshy areas, oak forest, pine plantations, and an early successional old farm site. Botanist Clayton Bazuin noted, “Loda Lake is ideally suited as a wildflower sanctuary and although near one of Michigan’s busy highways, can still be a natural reservoir of wild plants. This is due to the large number of ecological associations it affords in which they may survive."

Loda Lake is the only Wildflower sanctuary in the National Forest System, a project supported both financially and botanically by the Michigan Garden Clubs for over seventy years.

General Information

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General Information

Location

Loda Lake National Wildflower Sanctuary, Loda Lake

Nearby Recreation Areas

Mena Creek
Minnie Pond
Indian Lake
North Country National Scenic Trail
Highbanks Semi-Primitive Nonmotorized Area
Loda Lake Semi-Primitive Motorized Area

County

Newaygo

Seasonal and Other Information -

This site is not gated in the off season.
This site is not maintained in winter:
- Access road and/or parking lot are not plowed.
- No toilet facilities are available.

May 1 - October 31

Open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week unless otherwise posted. Forest quiet hours apply.

Special Use Permit

No special use permit is required for individuals or small groups (74 people or less).
Permits are required for commercial, event or large groups (75 people or more).

Visit the Passes and Permits section for more information on obtaining a special use permit.

As a visitor to the National Forest, you are asked to follow certain rules designed to protect the Forest, natural resources and to provide for public safety of visitors. These rules are available to you on-line or at any office of the Huron-Manistee National Forests. Please take time to read and understand them. General Topic orders apply across the Forests. Applicable Orders -

Motorized Vehicle Use of Roads, Trails and Off-road Areas
Occupancy and Use

Allowed Hiking; Pets on Leash; Nonmotorized Snow Use (trail is not groomed); Nonmotorized Mechanized Equipment Prohibited All snow and nonsnow Motorized Vehicles; Pack and Saddle Animals, Llamas; Camping; Mountain Bikes

Day Use:
$5 vehicle per day
$15 per seven day

A Forest Service office with wood and gray siding with a green lawn.

Address: 650 North Michigan Ave. Baldwin, MI 49304
Phone: (231) 745-4631
Hours: Monday to Friday 9:00 am - 4:00 pm (Closed on federal holidays)