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Upper Dam, Wisconsin
Upper Dam on the Red River in Wisconsin.
Open in BirdTrout44.855, -88.7883 · Shawano County · NID WI00799. Tap the map to open this water in the live app.
What the runs do here
Red 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
- Gresham, Village of Local Government
- Purpose
- Hydroelectric, Recreation
- Completed
- 1883
- Type
- Gravity
- Height
- 35 ft
- Length
- 289 ft
- Spillway
- Controlled, 113 ft wide
- Storage
- 1,300 acre-ft · 215 acre pool
- Drainage
- 147 sq mi
- Condition
- Satisfactory · Low 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
- Miller Creek 0.69 mi from the dam · Class I · wild (WDNR) · typed Cold
- Kroenke Creek 0.75 mi from the dam · Class I · wild (WDNR) · typed Cold
- Red River 1.35 mi from the dam · Class II · wild supplemented (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
- Upper Red Lake Landing 0.1 mi · boat launch · Upper Red Lake
- Gresham Riverside Park Boat Launch 0.2 mi · boat launch · Lower Red Lake
- Upper Red Lake Canoe Launch 0.3 mi · canoe launch · Upper Red Lake
- Lower Red Lake Access 0.6 mi · boat launch · Lower Red Lake
- Red River Canoe Launch 3.0 mi · canoe launch · Red River
- Beaulieu Lake Access 4.1 mi · canoe launch · Beaulieu Lake
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.