{"id":52,"date":"2022-11-22T09:56:22","date_gmt":"2022-11-22T15:56:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/visitmiddleton.com\/?page_id=52"},"modified":"2025-10-13T10:30:59","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T15:30:59","slug":"lake-mendota","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/visitmiddleton.com\/recreation\/lake-mendota\/","title":{"rendered":"Lake Mendota"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/visitmiddleton.com\/location\/marshall-boats\/\"  target=\"_self\" itemprop=\"url\">\n\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/visitmiddleton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Lake-Mendota-Boat.jpg\" alt=\"Six adults and children sit on a red pontoon boat on Lake Mendota; four children in life jackets dangle their feet in the water.\" itemprop=\"image\" height=\"600\" width=\"900\" title=\"Lake Mendota Boat\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/visitmiddleton.com\/location\/marshall-boats\/\" target=\"_self\">Watercraft Rentals<\/a><\/h3><p>Visit Marshall Boats to rent a canoe, kayak (single or double), stand-up paddleboards (single and family), pontoon boat, or schedule an event, group rental or private party in the summer and early fall: open full hours, 10 a.m. to 9 p.m., Memorial Day through Labor Day. Open limited hours during the spring and fall (hours <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/visitmiddleton.com\/location\/marshall-boats\/\">here<\/a><\/strong>).\u00a0<\/p>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/visitmiddleton.com\/location\/marshall-boats\/\" target=\"_self\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tRead More\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/visitmiddleton.com\/get-on-the-water\/\"  target=\"_self\" itemprop=\"url\">\n\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/visitmiddleton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Middleton_Lake_Mendota-sailboat2.jpg\" alt=\"a sailboat floating in the middle of a body of water\" itemprop=\"image\" height=\"1200\" width=\"1800\" title=\"Middleton_Lake_Mendota-sailboat2\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/visitmiddleton.com\/get-on-the-water\/\" target=\"_self\">Bring Your Own Boat<\/a><\/h3><p>Here are two access points to Lake Mendota on the west side &#8211; Marshall Park (drop anything in), and Mendota County Park in Westport on the north shore.<\/p>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/visitmiddleton.com\/get-on-the-water\/\" target=\"_self\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tRead More\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n<h3>\n\t\t\tOther Aquatic Options\t<\/h3>\n\t<p>Here are a few other ways to get out on the water in Middleton:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Dip your toes in the water-or dive in-at the beach at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/visitmiddleton.com\/location\/marshall-boats\/\">Marshall Park<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Take a hike along the soothing Pheasant Branch Creek at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/visitmiddleton.com\/recreation\/pheasant-branch-conservancy\/\">Pheasant Branch Conservancy.<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Cool off at the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/visitmiddleton.com\/location\/splash-pad-in-lakeview-park\/\">Splash Pad at Lakeview Park<\/a> or enjoy the interactive water equipment and waterslides at the <a href=\"https:\/\/visitmiddleton.com\/location\/bauman-community-pool\/\">Bauman Community Pool<\/a><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/visitmiddleton.com\/location\/bauman-community-pool\/\">.<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>\n\t\t\tRelated Content\t<\/h2>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watercraft Rentals Visit Marshall Boats to rent a canoe, kayak (single or double), stand-up paddleboards (single and family), pontoon boat, or schedule an event, group rental or private party in&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1120,"parent":48,"menu_order":230,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-52","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/visitmiddleton.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/52","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/visitmiddleton.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/visitmiddleton.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visitmiddleton.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visitmiddleton.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/visitmiddleton.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/52\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visitmiddleton.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/48"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visitmiddleton.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/visitmiddleton.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}