Nature reserve · Minnesota

Mud Lake Wildlife Management Area, Morrison County Unit

Mud Lake Wildlife Management Area, Morrison County Unit from directly overhead

Mud Lake Wildlife Management Area, Morrison County Unit is a nature reserve in Minnesota, at a modelled elevation of 367 m. The nearest named place is Culdrum Wildlife Management Area, a nature reserve 4.0 miles away. Great River Road passes 7.5 miles off. 104 named places lie within 25 miles, 2 of them named summits.

Visiting

What to expect

Operated by: Minnesota Department of Natural Resources

Getting there

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Coordinates46.01609, -94.52113

7.5 mi off the Great River Road, National
28.2 mi off the Glacial Ridge Trail Scenic Byway

Around it

104 named places within 25 miles

Nature reserves49

Culdrum Wildlife Management Area: 4.0 mi
Little Elk Wildlife Management Area: 5.5 mi
Neitermeier Wildlife Management Area: 6.2 mi
Otter Point Wildlife Management Area: 9.2 mi
Clare Johnson - Carl W. Schmidt Wildlife Management Area, Large Marsh Unit: 9.8 mi

Parks40

Pine Grove Zoo: 7.0 mi
Pine Grove Park and Zoo: 7.1 mi
Charles A. Lindbergh State Park: 7.5 mi
Charles A. Lindbergh State Park: 7.7 mi
Le Bourget Park: 7.8 mi

Museums6

Minnesota Fishing Museum: 7.6 mi
Charles A Weyerhaeuser Museum: 7.6 mi
Camp Ripley Environmental Education Center: 9.0 mi
Minnesota Military Museum: 9.5 mi
Todd County Museum: 16.5 mi

Picnic sites2

Picnic Area 6: 8.8 mi
Picnic Area 5: 21.1 mi

Peaks2

The Mound: 14.6 mi
Eagle Mountain: 15.2 mi

Ghost towns2

Old Crow Wing: 20.1 mi
Philbrook: 20.7 mi

Rest areas1

Brainerd Lakes Area Welcome Center: 19.4 mi

Artworks1

Paul Bunyan Statue: 19.4 mi

Historic sites1

Veterans' Memorial: 22.0 mi

Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

Date	Sunrise	Golden hour	Sunset
March equinox	07:22	18:51	19:31
June solstice	05:28	20:27	21:13
September equinox	07:06	18:38	19:18
December solstice	07:58	15:46	16:36

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	14	18	31	45	58	68	73	70	62	48	32	19
Precip in	0.8	0.7	1.3	2.3	3.3	4.3	3.7	3.3	3.0	2.4	1.3	0.9

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Little Falls 2nne, 9 mi away.

Sources

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Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap element way/31655974

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