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Caldron Falls, Wisconsin
Caldron Falls on the Peshtigo River in Wisconsin.
Open in BirdTrout45.3567, -88.23 · Marinette County · NID WI00759. Tap the map to open this water in the live app.
What the runs do here
Peshtigo River carries no anadromous run on our corridor map, so this page makes no claim about salmon or steelhead at this dam. What it sits on is coldwater — resident trout water — and the section below says which classification says so.
The structure
- Owner
- Wisconsin Public Service Corporation Public Utility
- Purpose
- Hydroelectric, Fish and Wildlife Pond, Recreation, Flood Risk Reduction
- Completed
- 1924
- Type
- Gravity
- Height
- 81 ft
- Length
- 1250 ft
- Spillway
- Controlled, 205 ft wide
- Storage
- 11,500 acre-ft · 1,018 acre pool
- Drainage
- 496 sq mi
- Condition
- Satisfactory · High hazard potential
- Status
- Normal Operations
From the National Inventory of Dams (USACE). Hazard potential is a downstream-consequence classification, not a statement about the structure's condition.
The water above and below
- Little Eagle Creek 0.51 mi from the dam · Class I · wild (WDNR) · typed Cold
- Eagle Creek 1.44 mi from the dam · Class I · wild (WDNR) · typed Cold
Coldwater designation is the state's own classification. A dam sits on one river and this list is every designated reach within a mile and a half of it, so a tributary mouth shows up here too.
Water right now
No USGS temperature gauge we read reports within 20 miles of this dam, so this page has no live number for it. That is a gap in the gauge network, not a judgement about the water.
Getting to it
- Boat Launch #8 - Caldron Bay 0.3 mi · boat launch · Caldron Falls Reservoir
- Boat Launch #9 - Muskellunge Point 0.8 mi · boat launch · Caldron Falls Reservoir
- Boat Launch #13 - South Bay 1.2 mi · boat launch · Caldron Falls Reservoir
- Governor Thompson State Park Fishing Pier 1.2 mi · walk in · Caldron Falls Flowage
- Boat Launch #10 - North Bay 1.9 mi · boat launch · Caldron Falls Reservoir
- Boat Launch #6 - Woods Creek 2.7 mi · boat launch · High Falls Reservoir
Public access sites near the dam, straight-line distance. A dam itself is private property unless its owner says otherwise; these are the places the state lists as open.
Fly shops nearby
- Popp's Resort 4.2 mi · Crivitz · +1-715-757-3511
- Bob White Trout & Bait 24.7 mi · Coleman · +1-920-897-3812
- The Sports Shop 29.6 mi