UW-Madison Lakeshore Nature Preserve

The 300-acre Lakeshore Nature Preserve represents about 1/3 of the total acreage of the main UW-Madison campus including 4.3 miles of Lake Mendota shoreline, roughly 1/5 of the lake's total circumference and the largest contiguous undeveloped swath.

The famed Lakeshore Path extends the full 4.3 miles along the Lake Mendota shoreline from the Limnology Lab, near the Memorial Union, to Wally Bauman Woods, next to the Village of Shorewood Hills, via Picnic Point, a peninsula that juts nearly a mile into the lake.