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Newport State Park © Yinan Chen / Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Spinulum annotinum synonym Lycopodium annotinum, common club-moss, Newport State Park is a 2373 Acre Park near Ellison Bay in Wisconsin. It is Wisconsins only Wilderness designated park and has 11 miles of Lake Michigan Shore
Newport State Park © Yinan Chen / Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Newport State Park is a 2373 Acre Park near Ellison Bay in Wisconsin. It is Wisconsins only Wilderness designated park and has 11 miles of Lake Michigan ShorelSome landscape and lake
Newport State Park © Yinan Chen / Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Newport State Park is a 2373 Acre Park near Ellison Bay in Wisconsin. It is Wisconsins only Wilderness designated park and has 11 miles of Lake Michigan ShorelWater, bay, and shoreline
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NEWPORT STATE PARK
NEWPORT STATE PARK
475 County Road NP
Ellison Bay, Wisconsin   54210
(lat:45.235 lon:-86.9919) map location

Phone: 920-854-2500
Reservations: 920-854-2500
Email: park email button icon
Nature of the Area
Newport, northeast of Ellison Bay, is Wisconsin's only formally designated wilderness park. With 2,373 acres and 11 miles of Lake Michigan shoreline it offers quiet alternatives to bustling Door County.

There are evergreen and hardwood forests, wetlands, and upland meadows. The park has an interpretive center and naturalist program.

Newport offers 38.3 miles of trails, all of them open for hiking. Of these, 16.8 miles also are open to off-road bicycles. In the winter, 26.3 miles of trails are available for cross-country skiing, including, 12.5 miles groomed and tracked for classical skiing and 2 miles groomed for skate skiing, and 4.5 miles are open for snowshoeing.

Newport has 16 backpack campsites, 13 of which can be reserved. The park also offers winter backpack camping.
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A Wisconsin State Park System vehicle admission sticker is required on all motor vehicles stopping in state parks, forests and recreation areas, please visit the VEHICLE ADMISSION STICKERS web page.
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