{"id":1086,"date":"2012-08-31T13:04:26","date_gmt":"2012-08-31T13:04:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.northernloon.net\/wordpress30\/?p=1086"},"modified":"2025-04-21T17:41:54","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T17:41:54","slug":"hartman-creek-campground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/northernloon.net\/travelogue\/?p=1086","title":{"rendered":"Hartman Creek Campground"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hartman Creek is located about 10 miles SW of Waupaca, WI, has about 88 campsites, some electric.\u00a0 It&#8217;s salient features are:\u00a0 Very tall pine trees.\u00a0 Parts of the campground feature these, parts are densely wooded with deciduous trees.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a very quiet campground, heavily monitored by the local rangers.<\/p>\n<p>It has it&#8217;s own lake and beach, but we quickly sniffed out Marl Lake, part of the Chain &#8216;O Lakes belonging to Waupaca.\u00a0 Marl was a short drive away, and is named after a general description of a lake that sports a green hue because of a suffusion of a certain type of mineral.\u00a0 (<strong>Marl<\/strong> or <strong>marlstone<\/strong> is a <a title=\"Calcium carbonate\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Calcium_carbonate\">calcium carbonate<\/a> or <a title=\"Lime (material)\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lime_%28material%29\">lime<\/a>-rich mud or <a title=\"Mudstone\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mudstone\">mudstone<\/a> which contains variable amounts of <a title=\"Clay minerals\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Clay_minerals\">clays<\/a> and <a title=\"Silt\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Silt\">silt<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>Marl Lake is perhaps the best swimming hole we&#8217;ve ever experienced.\u00a0 The water is completely unspoiled, the color is fantastic. There are a few cabins around, but they are tasteful and mostly out of sight.\u00a0 No motorboats from the rest of the Chain can gain access.\u00a0 Access is gained by a quarter mile walk, then down some steep stone cut stairs.\u00a0 There&#8217;s one dock.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #99cc00;\"><em>(Note: <em>Click a thumbnail below to see an associated photo gallery, which will open in a different tab\/window. Close that tab\/window when finished to return control to this page.)<\/em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/northernloon.smugmug.com\/2012\/Hartman-Creek\/25867595_Nfz5skhttp:\/\/northernloon.smugmug.com\/2012\/Hartman-Creek\/25867595_Nfz5sk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1087\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1087\" src=\"http:\/\/northernloon.net\/travelogue\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Hart013-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/northernloon.net\/travelogue\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Hart013-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/northernloon.net\/travelogue\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Hart013-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/northernloon.net\/travelogue\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Hart013.jpg 1100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hartman Creek is located about 10 miles SW of Waupaca, WI, has about 88 campsites, some electric.\u00a0 It&#8217;s salient features are:\u00a0 Very tall pine trees.\u00a0 Parts of the campground feature these, parts are densely wooded with deciduous trees.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a very quiet campground, heavily monitored by the local rangers. It has it&#8217;s own lake and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/northernloon.net\/travelogue\/?p=1086\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Hartman Creek Campground&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[11,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-camping","category-photo","category-vacation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/northernloon.net\/travelogue\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/northernloon.net\/travelogue\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/northernloon.net\/travelogue\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northernloon.net\/travelogue\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northernloon.net\/travelogue\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1086"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/northernloon.net\/travelogue\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1090,"href":"https:\/\/northernloon.net\/travelogue\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1086\/revisions\/1090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/northernloon.net\/travelogue\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northernloon.net\/travelogue\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northernloon.net\/travelogue\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}