Nature reserve · Minnesota

Walnut Lake Wildlife Management Area

Walnut Lake Wildlife Management Area from directly overhead

Walnut Lake Wildlife Management Area is a nature reserve in Minnesota, at a modelled elevation of 347 m. Great River Road passes 83 miles off. 126 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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Coordinates43.64764, -93.79656

83.3 mi off the Great River Road, National

Around it

126 named places within 25 miles

Nature reserves57

Walnut Lake Wildlife Management Area: 1.2 mi
Walnut Lake Wildlife Management Area: 1.5 mi
Walnut Lake Wildlife Management Area: 1.6 mi
Save the Wetlands Wildlife Management Area: 6.1 mi
Wells Wildlife Management Area: 7.8 mi

Parks50

Half Moon Park: 7.3 mi
Area Veterans Memorial Park: 7.6 mi
Arrowhead Point County Park: 13.2 mi
Old Mill Park: 13.6 mi
Steinberg Nature Park: 14.3 mi

Museums8

Wells Depot Museum: 7.6 mi
Alden Community Museum: 11.2 mi
Kremer House Library & Museum: 13.6 mi
Wakefield House Museum: 15.0 mi
Etta C Ross Museum: 15.1 mi

Historic sites6

Area Veterans Memorial: 7.6 mi
Old Mill: 14.0 mi
Lake Mills Veterans Memorial/ Freedom Rock: 20.4 mi
Freeborn County Courthouse: 21.4 mi
Thanks for Visiting Minnesota: 24.2 mi

Ghost towns2

Clayton: 5.1 mi
Homedahl: 9.7 mi

Artworks1

Jolly Green Giant: 15.0 mi

Springs1

Spring of Winnebago River: 16.5 mi

Beaches1

Albert Lea Beach: 21.5 mi

Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

Date	Sunrise	Golden hour	Sunset
March equinox	07:19	18:50	19:28
June solstice	05:34	20:17	21:01
September equinox	07:03	18:37	19:14
December solstice	07:46	15:55	16:42

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	19	32	46	58	69	72	70	62	49	34	21
Precip in	0.7	0.7	1.7	3.4	4.6	5.5	4.9	4.1	3.7	2.5	1.7	1.1

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Wells, 8 mi away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap element way/31656270

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