Round Lake Logging Dam

The Round Lake Logging Dam sits 18 miles east of Fifield on the South Fork Flambeau River, where the river flows out of Round Lake. It is on the National Register of Historic Places and is the only known surviving logging dam in northern Wisconsin.

Loggers built it between 1878 and 1886 to impound water for log drives on the Flambeau River system: they built up a head of water behind the dam, then released it all at once to flush logs downstream to mills in Eau Claire and beyond. The structure is preserved and publicly accessible within the Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest. The Forest Service, the Price County Historical Society and the Friends of the Round Lake Logging Dam rebuilt it between 1992 and 1995.

Source: U.S. Forest Service; National Register of Historic Places.