Volunteers will be out in full force over the next two weeks for the annual Clean Boats, Clean Waters Landing Blitz.They’ll ...

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, ...

Lake Mendota in Madison shown frozen over this week. Jan. 15, 2024, was the lake's third-latest freeze date since records began being kept over 170 years ago.

The Clean Lakes Alliance kicked off its 14th annual Mendota Freeze Contest Sunday, prompting Wisconsinites to submit guesses on when they believe the lake will fully freeze.. Clean Lakes Alliance ...

The canoe was buried less than 100 yards away from a 1,200-year-old canoe found in Lake Mendota last year, by the same Wisconsin archaeologist.

Wisconsin archaeologists recently discovered 11 ancient canoes in Lake Mendota, outside Madison. The canoes were found in a cache that may have been an ancient shoreline.

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 ...

More: How a 1,200-year-old canoe found in Wisconsin's Lake Mendota last summer is serving as a bridge for tribal relations. People who lived on the shores are Ho-Chunk predecessors. The people who ...

The canoes were found in Lake Mendota, which is located outside of Madison. The Wisconsin Historical Society explained that two ancient canoes were found in a cache in the lake in 2021 and 2022.

December is officially here, and that means it's time to start watching Lake Mendota to see when it will freeze over. If you've got a bit of clairvoyance for the ice, you might even win a prize.

After an unseasonably warm December, this week's frigid temps allowed Mendota and Madison's other lakes to freeze over much later than in years past.