Nature reserve · Minnesota

Farm Island Lake Wildlife Management Area

Farm Island Lake Wildlife Management Area from directly overhead

Farm Island Lake Wildlife Management Area is a nature reserve in Minnesota, at a modelled elevation of 383 m. The nearest named place is Ripple River Wildlife Management Area, Access Unit, a nature reserve 3.1 miles away. Great River Road passes 6.3 miles off. 104 named places lie within 25 miles.

Visiting

What to expect

Operated by: Minnesota Department of Natural Resources

Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates46.41320, -93.79408

6.3 mi off the Great River Road, National
21.4 mi off the Paul Bunyan Scenic Byway, National

Around it

104 named places within 25 miles

Nature reserves44

Ripple River Wildlife Management Area, Access Unit: 3.1 mi
Ripple River Wildlife Management Area, West Unit: 4.6 mi
Cedar Lake Wildlife Management Area: 4.9 mi
Round-Rice Bed Wildlife Management Area: 5.7 mi
Round-Rice Bed Wildlife Management Area: 6.6 mi

Parks40

Elmer Park: 6.5 mi
Deerwood City Park: 6.6 mi
Veteran's Memorial Park: 6.7 mi
Jake Regan Park: 8.3 mi
Garrison Concourse Wayside Park: 8.3 mi

Museums7

Soo Line Depot Museum: 8.9 mi
Northern Pacific Depot: 9.2 mi
Mille Lacs Indian Museum: 16.4 mi
Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post: 16.5 mi
WonderTrek Children's Museum: 18.7 mi

Gardens5

Gazebo Garden: 20.8 mi
Memorial Garden: 20.9 mi
Secret Garden: 20.9 mi
Butterfly Garden and Rain Garden: 21.0 mi
G101 & Giving Garden: 21.0 mi

Historic sites4

Veterans Memorial: 9.3 mi
VFW Tank: 9.8 mi
Miler Castle: 19.7 mi
Miller Castle: 19.7 mi

Artworks3

Deerwood Deer Statue: 6.5 mi
Giant Walleye: 8.4 mi
Serpent Lake: 8.9 mi

Ghost towns1

Manganese: 12.9 mi

Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

Date	Sunrise	Golden hour	Sunset
March equinox	07:19	18:48	19:28
June solstice	05:23	20:25	21:12
September equinox	07:03	18:35	19:15
December solstice	07:57	15:41	16:32

Local time (America/Chicago).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Sep.

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Avg °F	10	14	26	40	53	63	68	65	57	44	30	17
Precip in	1.1	1.0	1.7	2.8	3.8	4.4	4.7	3.3	3.1	2.9	1.7	1.2

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Aitkin 2E, 10 mi away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap element way/31656979

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