The Jan 15. freeze date was the lake's third-latest freeze date since monitoring began over 170 years ago. Mendota froze three weeks later than last year, when it was declared frozen on Christmas Day.

Just a few weeks ago, state climatologist Steve Vavrus said he worried that the lack of ice on Madison's Lake Mendota could damper the capital city's Clean Lakes Alliance's Frozen Assets ...

Native Nations of Wisconsin and the Wisconsin Historical Society revealed dugout canoes discovered at the bottom of Lake Mendota in 2021 and 2022 are 4,500 years old. Two submerged canoes were ...

MADISON, Wis. — With a bit of help, another ancient piece of history has sailed home to the Ho-Chunk Nation — and marked Lake Mendota as having preserved the oldest canoe ever discovered in ...

The festival, packed with icy events, will take place from Feb. 3-9 at The Edgewater and extend onto frozen Lake Mendota. The family-friendly festival is free and will host ice skating, ...

Recently thawed Lake Mendota has become home to migrating swans, ducks and geese. Their yearly return marks the beginning of the nesting season and provides cultivation benefits to the lake ecosystem, ...

The researchers who raised two ancient dugout canoes submerged in Madison's Lake Mendota announced Thursday they had discovered fragments or chunks of at least eight more canoes in the lake, an ...

A dugout canoe used by indigenous people 3,000 years ago recently recovered from Wisconsin’s Lake Mendota is the oldest canoe ever found in the Great Lakes region, the Wisconsin Historical ...

LAKE MENDOTA, Wis. -- One person is hospitalized and at least 20 are injured after a pier collapsed into Lake Mendota in Wisconsin on Labor Day. The metal pier collapsed around 2:30 p.m. Monday ...

The Jan 15. freeze date was the lake's third-latest freeze date since monitoring began over 170 years ago. Mendota froze three weeks later than last year, when it was declared frozen on Christmas Day.