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Lake Poygan

Lake Poygan is a lake of some 14,024 acres on the Wolf River, in Wisconsin. It lies in Winnebago County. It is managed by Wisconsin DNR.

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CountiesWinnebago County

Coordinates44.1462, -88.8394

Surface area14,024 acres

Max depth11 ft

RiverWolf River

Managed byWisconsin DNR

Swimming beaches on Lake Poygan

No named swimming beach is mapped yet for this lake. Access is through agency day-use areas and boat ramps listed below. We add beach pages only when we can confirm a name, coordinates and an operating agency.

Lake Poygan on the map

Lake center, swimming spots and access points.

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Weather and water temperature

Air temperature and wind from Open-Meteo. Water temperature only when the lake has a public sensor.

Weather data by Open-Meteo

Is Lake Poygan good for swimming?

Lake Poygan sits at 44.1462, -88.8394. Maximum depth is around 11 feet.

If you need a named beach, Terrace Beach on Green Lake is some 22 miles from here. The federal and state datasets behind this guide list no named beach at Lake Poygan. That does not mean there is no access, only that none is catalogued. A missing beach entry often just means nobody has catalogued the access point yet.

Where an agency publishes a figure, we show it with the time it was taken; here there is none. Lake Poygan has no public water level gauge that we can read, so there is no level chart here. An invented number would be worse than none.

There is no water temperature sensor here, so only air conditions are shown. Water quality is monitored unevenly on inland lakes, so posted notices are the most reliable guide. Swimming season in Wisconsin runs through the warm months, and day-use areas set their own opening dates.

The closest lakes in this guide are Lake Winnebago (Wisconsin, 23 mi), Green Lake (Wisconsin, 23 mi) and Puckaway Lake (Wisconsin, 32 mi). Wisconsin has 34 lakes on this site in total.