North Bar Lake
Overview
Directions: RWVQ+C9 Empire, Michigan
Parking Lot: Large paved lot
Restroom: Vault toilet
Water: None
Boat Ramp: Carry in access
Pets: Not allowed
Access
There is an accessible packed crushed stone trail from the parking lot to North Bar Lake, which is about 750 feet. From the end of this trail at North Bar Lake, the trail becomes soft and sandy and becomes steep as it goes over the fore dunes to Lake Michigan. This soft sand trail is about 600 feet long.
More about North Bar Lake
The smaller North Bar Lake is often warm in the summer, so families with small children like to swim there and play in the shallow outlet of the lake as it flows into Lake Michigan. Depending on the wave action of Lake Michigan, there may or may not be an outlet from North Bar Lake. Sometimes it is completely blocked by sand.
Ship wrecks sometimes visible
