4th Lake/Lake Mendota
  1. James Madison Park
    Bernard-Hoover Boathouse
    Mendota Yacht Club
  2. Life Saving Station
    Old Governor’s Mansion
  3. Edgewater Hotel
  4. Armory/Red Gym and Boathouse
    The Memorial Union
    Hasler Limnology
  5. Porter Boathouse
  6. The 1918 Marsh/University Bay Marsh
  7. Picnic Point
    The Habitat
  8. Camp Gallistelle Tent Colony
  9. Frautschi/Second Point
  10. Merrill Springs
  11. West Point
    City of the Four Lakes
  12. Fox Bluff
    Bishop’s Bay Country Club
    Camp Wakanda
  13. Governor Nelson Park
    Camp Indianola
  14. Mendota Mental Health Institute
    Profile Rock
  15. Governors Island & Rocky Roost
  16. Warner Park
  17. Maple Bluff
  18. The Governor’s Mansion
  19. Burrows Park
  20. Tenney Park
    Tenney Locks & Farwells Madison Mill
    The Yahara River
  21. Lady Liberty
  22. Lake Mendota Monster



  • Glacial lake formed 15,000 years ago
  • 9,842 acres
  • 82-foot max depth
  • Three times larger than Lake Monona