Portage Springs (Vilas County)

Waterbody ID (WBIC): 1629100 — permanent page /lakes/1629100/.

Portage Springs is in Vilas County; records show 1 acres and DNR stocking records.

Size

1 acres

• Fish stocking documented through 1981 (DNR stocking records)

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Plan your visit

• Lake directory: public landing — No
• Lake directory: public beach — No
• Lake directory: public park — No

Each statement is bounded to its named source; absence of a record is never evidence of no access. The DNR access database may lag reality; posted signs at the landing are authoritative.

Verify at the DNR public boat access program page.

Nearby facilities

• LAC VIEUX DESERT — Campground; ≈9.8 km from the lake shoreline (straight line); fee charged. Official USFS page
• LAC VIEUX DESERT BL — Boating site; ≈9.8 km from the lake shoreline (straight line); fee charged.

USFS Chequamegon-Nicolet constructed recreation sites only; straight-line distance is geographic context, not a travel route.

Fishing

No fish species/abundance table is published for this lake. Missing records mean unpublished, never zero fish.

Stocking records: 7 documented events through 1981, 9,500 fish total. Species: Trout (Historic). Events in 2015 or later count as recent.

No fisheries survey population estimate is published for this lake in the covered report families.

Fishing limits — 2026-2027 season: 19 normalized rows across 19 species entries. Normalized from the DNR ruleset retrieved 2026-08-04. Source text remains authoritative.

2026-2027 retained fishing rules: 19 published rows for 19 species; effective through 2027-03-07. Check current DNR rules.

Water and setting

No water-clarity measurement or estimate is published for this lake.

No official DNR depth map is published for this lake.

Not published in the lake directory: lake type, official maximum depth, official mean depth.

No public aquatic invasive species occurrence record was found for this lake. The DNR inventory is non-exhaustive; absence of a record is never evidence of absence.

• Public-land proximity (GIS proxy, not access evidence): mapped public land within 1,000 ft; nearest: Vilas County Forest (Vilas County); ≈56.5% of shoreline buffer
• Shoreline development (landcover proxy, 2025 source): ≈0% developed land within 300 m, ≈0% impervious
• Road proximity (TIGER proxy, 2025 source): nearest local road or city street ≈751 m; ≈0.3 km of road per km² within 1 km

Data & sources

Published data families

• Fish stocking history
• Fishing regulations (normalized snapshot)
• Directory access facts (landing, beach, park)

Original records: Wisconsin DNR lake page.

Missing values are unpublished, never zero; each fact above is bounded to its named source and date. Full sourcing detail: Data & methods.