Nature reserve · Minnesota

French Lake Wildlife Management Area

French Lake Wildlife Management Area from directly overhead

French Lake Wildlife Management Area is a nature reserve in Minnesota, at a modelled elevation of 370 m. The nearest named place is Aitkin Wildlife Management Area, Main Unit, a nature reserve 3.2 miles away. Great River Road passes 3.4 miles off. 81 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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Coordinates46.62402, -93.55655

3.4 mi off the Great River Road, National
26.4 mi off the Paul Bunyan Scenic Byway, National

Around it

81 named places within 25 miles

Nature reserves48

Aitkin Wildlife Management Area, Main Unit: 3.2 mi
Newstrom Lake Wildlife Management Area, North Unit: 4.4 mi
Newstrom Lake Wildlife Management Area, South Unit: 5.1 mi
Aitkin Wildlife Management Area, South Unit: 6.7 mi
Roberts-Wickstrom Wildlife Management Area, West Unit: 7.9 mi

Parks19

Berglund County Park: 6.8 mi
Aitkin County Fairgrounds: 9.2 mi
Aitkin County Parks: 9.3 mi
Axtell Technical Riding Area: 9.5 mi
Aitkin City Park: 9.8 mi

Historic sites5

VFW Tank: 9.1 mi
Veterans Memorial: 9.4 mi
The Ojibwe's Sandy Lake Journey: 15.0 mi
Tell Him I Blame Him for the Children we have Lost...: 15.0 mi
Big Sandy Lake Reservoir: 15.0 mi

Rest areas3

MN-210: McGregor Rest Area: 12.2 mi
Big Sandy Lake Overlook: 15.0 mi
Tamarack Wayside Rest: 20.4 mi

Museums2

Northern Pacific Depot: 9.6 mi
Soo Line Depot Museum: 21.1 mi

Artworks2

Deerwood Deer Statue: 19.3 mi
Serpent Lake: 21.4 mi

Ghost towns1

Manganese: 22.5 mi

Peaks1

Quadna Mountain: 23.5 mi

Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

Date	Sunrise	Golden hour	Sunset
March equinox	07:18	18:47	19:27
June solstice	05:22	20:25	21:12
September equinox	07:02	18:34	19:14
December solstice	07:56	15:38	16:30

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, 9 mi away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap element way/31657417

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