BirdTrout
Yankee Springs Recreation Area, Michigan
3,882 acres of public ground in Barry county, managed by Local Government land. No named stream on our map touches it.
Open in BirdTrout50°F and colder is cold, through cold-transitional and cool, to warm above 70°F — the same four bands the app paints. The colour is MDNR's classification of the valley segment, not a measurement, except at the gauge dots, which read live. Grey is water MDNR has not typed.
The unit in numbers
Assembled from OSM ownership records, dissolved into one block: the section lines a state forest is surveyed in are not a fact about access, so they are not drawn and not counted twice.
Getting on it
Open to the public on foot without a permit, as the ownership file records it.
This unit is 8 separate blocks of ground rather than one, which is normal for public land held in surveyed sections: the blocks are not contiguous. The map above draws every one of them, and the ground between two of them belongs to somebody else.
Trout streams on this ground
No named stream on our map touches this unit. That is a statement about the map — every NHD reach in the state is on it, but only named water carries a page.
Hunting
This unit is not in the huntable public-land layer this app paints, so this page does not publish seasons for it. That is not the same as "hunting is closed here" — it means the layer the app draws from does not carry this ground, and the managing agency is the one to ask.
Access sites and amenities
| Site | Kind | Water | On it |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yankee Springs Recreation Area Campground camping | Boat launch | Gun Lake | parking (asphalt), 1 trailer ramp · fee |
| Baker Lake | Boat launch | Baker Lake | parking (11 spaces), 1 trailer ramp · fee |
| Chief Noonday Lake | Boat launch | Chief Noonday Lake | parking (7 spaces), 1 trailer ramp · fee |
| Deep Lake | Boat launch | Deep Lake | parking (7 spaces), 1 trailer ramp, accessible features · fee |
| Long Lake | Boat launch | Long Lake | parking (6 spaces), 1 trailer ramp · fee |
| Williams Lake | Boat launch | Williams Lake | parking (6 spaces), 1 trailer ramp · fee |
| Yankee Springs Recreation Area Day Use | Boat launch | Gun Lake | parking (75 spaces), restroom, 4 trailer ramps, accessible features · fee |
| McDonald Lake | Canoe and kayak launch | McDonald Lake | parking (6 spaces), carry-down launch · fee |
When to come
The hatch calendar for southern lower Michigan, which is the region this unit's centre falls in — the same regions the app's hatch panel uses. It is a regional record, not a survey of this ground: nobody has counted insects unit by unit. Year-round records (midges, scuds, sculpins) are left out.
January
April
May
- Blue-Winged Olive
- Blackfly
- Blue Quill
- Cranefly
- +11 more
June
- Blackfly
- Cranefly
- Caterpillar
- Crayfish
- +15 more
July
- Caterpillar
- Crayfish
- Light Cahill
- Little Sulphur
- +17 more
August
- Caterpillar
- Crayfish
- Spotted / Tan Caddis
- Black Ant
- +14 more
September
- Blue-Winged Olive
- Cranefly
- Caterpillar
- Crayfish
- +10 more
October
- Fish Eggs
- Blue-Winged Olive
- Cranefly
- Crayfish
- +2 more
November
December
Regulations
Nothing on this page is a regulation. The fishing rules that apply to the water on this ground — the types, the seasons, the size limits and the gear restrictions — are on the Michigan fishing regulations page, built from the agency's own columns.
Watersheds it lies in
The subbasins this ground drains into. Each one has the whole basin's water on it.
Public land nearby
The nearest other blocks of public ground, centre to centre. Public land does not tile a state the way watersheds do, so this is nearness rather than adjacency.
- Yankee Springs 0.4 mi
- Barry State Game Area 2.2 mi
- Middleville State Game Area 8.7 mi
- Lux Arbor Reserve 9.7 mi
- Augusta Creek State Fish & Wildlife Area 16.7 mi
Plan a weekend around it
The trip pages whose range reaches this ground — the water in the same drive, what is hatching, and a three-day plan built from it.