St. Croix Lakes
St. Croix Creek flows under County Road A north of Solon Springs, Wisconsin and then, in a few hundred yards, flows into Upper St. Croix Lake. In all, St. Croix Creek is just over a mile long. The St. Croix River itself flows out of the south end of Upper St. Croix Lake. It flows through marshland, passes by Gordon, Wisconsin, and swings to the west to avoid an east-west running ridge. This section of the river ends at the Gordon Dam. The dam backups the St. Croix Flowage.
Upper St. Croix Lake with The St. Croix River draining its southern end.
South of Upper Lake St. Croix, the river flows through marsh on its way to Gordon, Wisconsin and the St. Croix Flowage.
Cut-A-Way between Solon Springs and Gordon
The pedestrian bridge at the Cut-A-Way Dam site.
The Cut-A-Way Dam Site midway between Solon Springs and Gordon, Wisconsin
Flowing Southwest From the Cut-A-Way Dam Site
Looking north over the St. Croix Flowage. Taken from the balcony on the back of The Lookout Tavern on Country Road Y west of Gordon.
The St. Croix Flowage
Looking east from the boat landing on Flowage Lane on the north shore of the St. Croix Flowage.
Berries On the Banks Of the St. Croix
St. Croix River passing under the railroad bridge north of Gordon
St. Croix River from the Old Highway 53 bridge.
Dock on the west end of the St. Croix Flowage.
The flowage side of the Gordon Dam.
Believe me, my young friend, there is nothing — absolutely nothing — half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats. Simply messing... about in boats — or with boats. In or out of 'em, it doesn't matter. Nothing seems really to matter, that's the charm of it. Whether you get away, or whether you don't; whether you arrive at your destination or whether you reach somewhere else, or whether you never get anywhere at all, you're always busy, and you never do anything in particular; and when you've done it there's always something else to do, and you can do it if you like, but you'd much better not.
— Rat talking to Mole about boating, from The Wind In the Willows by Kenneth Grahame