Beaches

The accessible beach mat is in place seasonally while the mobile beach chair is available for use year-round.

Beach wheelchairs are available free of charge

A brock dock allows visitors with disabilities to access the shoreline. A beach wheelchair is available at each beachhouse upon request.

Offers an ADA compliant concrete walkway from the concession stand to the beach and a Stab Mat from the walkway across the beach down to the water.

For those without a boat, the park has an accessible fishing pier. Fishing is generally good year-round. Species include bluegill, perch, crappie, largemouth and smallmouth bass, walleye, northern pike and sturgeon. An ADA accessible boardwalk leads to the North Beach swimming area.

The beach is ADA accessible by way of a stab-mat that allows wheelchair access to the lake.  

An accessible fishing pier is available along the channel walkway.

A universally accessible fishing deck is available at the day-use area along the Pinnebog River.

Four lakes and the Huron River offer a variety of fishing opportunities. A universally accessible fishing pier is available at Island Lake.

Bass, blue gill, crappie, pike and channel catfish are found in all three lakes, each with boating access sites. A universally accessible fishing pier is located at Whitford-Lawler Lake.

Lake Ovid has proven to be a very popular fishing lake with a wide variety of fish such as muskie, largemouth and smallmouth bass, bluegill, sunfish, crappie, rock bass, perch, catfish and bullheads. Two fishing piers are available as well as access to various shore fishing sites.

Beach wheelchairs are available free of charge

Fishing piers are located at Big Portage and Crooked lakes. The pier at Big Portage Lake is the only one considered universally accessible by ADA Guidelines. Bass, panfish and pike can be found in the many lakes in Waterloo Recreation Area.