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If you are in Jackson county it's always a good idea to stop by Portage Lake. For the period of the warm months at Portage Lake temperatures are typically in the 80's. Once the sun is down it dips down to the 50's. Throughout the wintertime highs are regularly in the 20's, and during the dark hours in the winter at Portage Lake temperatures fall to the 10's. From a rain point of view Portage Lake is a reasonably normal place; the month of June is the wettest
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| | with most of the rain while February is mostly the driest month. If only every site had this much outdoors entertaining things, what a great globe it would be. There are some wonderful whitewater spots on Red Cedar River, and why not camp at Robinhood Of Sherwood Forest if you're here at Portage Lake. There are other places here than Portage Lake, for example Randolph Lake, and if you came for an overnight stay All Seasons Resort is a perfect site to camp. | |
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Lakes? Sure, Little Portage Lake is in close proximity, and if you need a site to stay SUPER 8 MOTEL - BROOKLYN is a glorious choice. The good people of Jackson like to hang out nearby; let's not forget Orchard Creek which is
a stream that you may stumble upon while here. This lake is so wonderful. While you're here at Portage Lake you can play some golf at Waterloo Golf Course, and dry warm beds await you at Jackson Travelodge.
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Coordinates: Latitude: 42.33833 Longitude: -84.23472
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Red Cedar River, Ingham CountyCounty, 18 miles away Class I - 0.1 miles long (Williamston) |
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Jones Lake
 | 1 PHOTO Jones Lake is probably about 15-20 acres in size and gets down to 31 feet in the middle. The lake has lots of bluegill and largemouth bass in it. It also has black crappie and loads of carp. Jones Lake is a fairly weed.... |
Norvell Lake
 | Can you fish alot of places off shore? also, is there a place to rent boats. My daughter and grand kids just moved right in the area. Thank you-... |
Bruin Lake
 | 14 miles away First visit was a pleasant one. Boat launch is real shallow, I have a Glastron SX 175 v hull and had difficulty getting boat to clear trailer without backing tow vehicle farther into lake than usual. From there, things just got better. The water is pleasantly clean, but very shallow on the north side. However, the channels connecting Bruin to the other lakes are great. We spent all day on the water. Blind lake is a beautiful little lake with several sand bars, a swimming platform and a couple of rope swings for the kids to get out of the boat and play on. Overall, we were very pleased with the fact that we chose Bruin rather that our normal haunt Portage.... |
Juniper Hills Campground
 | 14 miles away Juniper Hills is under new management! Weekend campers are now welcome.Unfortunately there is not much for children to do at Juniper Hills. This would be more the type of place for a quiet getaway weekend....Juniper Hills is the place to be race weekends for a GREAT spring break like party. If you are looking to relax and have good family fun its not the place to be. I would not suggest taking anyone under the age of 18 here race weekend. It is adult spring break. If you wanna party this is THE place to be on race weekend. I enjoyed it very much and would return. Quiet hours run 3 am - 8 am.... |
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