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Boat ramps near Faribault
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Boat ramps near Faribault

12 stops10 watersUpdated Nov 6

78 public boat ramps on published waters near Faribault.

Distances are straight-line from downtown Faribault; below are the 12 closest, grouped by water.

Wells Lake

Recorded in Wells Lake: Common Carp, Largemouth Bass, Bigmouth Buffalo, and Black Bullhead.

Surveyed depths in Wells Lake reach 15 ft.

  1. 1Cannon Lake Public Water Access Site: boat ramp on Wells Lake, ≈ 4.2 mi from downtown.

Fox Lake

Recorded in Fox Lake: Common Carp, Bigmouth Buffalo, Black Bullhead, and Black Crappie.

Surveyed depths in Fox Lake reach 40 ft.

  1. 2Fox Lake Public Water Access Site: boat ramp on Fox Lake, ≈ 7 mi from downtown.

Cedar Lake

Recorded in Cedar Lake: Common Carp, Bigmouth Buffalo, Black Bullhead, and Black Crappie.

Surveyed depths in Cedar Lake reach 40 ft.

  1. 3Cedar Lake Public Water Access Site: boat ramp on Cedar Lake, ≈ 7.5 mi from downtown.

Horseshoe Lake

Recorded in Horseshoe Lake: Common Carp, Bigmouth Buffalo, Black Bullhead, and Black Crappie.

Surveyed depths in Horseshoe Lake reach 25 ft.

  1. 4Horseshoe Lake Public Water Access Site: boat ramp on Horseshoe Lake, ≈ 12.8 mi from downtown.

Sakatah Lake

Recorded in Sakatah Lake: Common Carp, Bigmouth Buffalo, Black Bullhead, and Black Crappie.

Surveyed depths in Sakatah Lake reach 10 ft.

  1. 5Upper Sakatah Lake Public Water Access Site: boat ramp on Sakatah Lake, ≈ 13.3 mi from downtown.
  2. 6Cannon River, Sakatah Lake, Waterville Public Water Access Site: boat ramp on Sakatah Lake, ≈ 15.8 mi from downtown.

Clear Lake

Recorded in Clear Lake: Common Carp, Black Bullhead, Black Crappie, and Bluegill.

Surveyed depths in Clear Lake reach 25 ft.

  1. 7Clear Lake (N) Public Water Access Site: boat ramp on Clear Lake, ≈ 17.5 mi from downtown.
  2. 8Clear Lake (S) Public Water Access Site: boat ramp on Clear Lake, ≈ 18.1 mi from downtown.

Greenleaf Lake

Recorded in Greenleaf Lake: Black Bullhead, Black Crappie, Bluegill, and Common Carp.

Surveyed depths in Greenleaf Lake reach 15 ft.

  1. 9Green Leaf Lake Public Water Access Site: boat ramp on Greenleaf Lake, ≈ 18.8 mi from downtown.

Elysian Lake

Recorded in Elysian Lake: Common Carp, Bigmouth Buffalo, Black Bullhead, and Black Crappie.

Surveyed depths in Elysian Lake reach 10 ft.

  1. 10Elysian Lake (N) Public Water Access Site: boat ramp on Elysian Lake, ≈ 20.4 mi from downtown.

Lake Byllesby

Recorded in Lake Byllesby: Common Carp, Freshwater Drum, Smallmouth Bass, and White Bass.

Surveyed depths in Lake Byllesby reach 50 ft.

  1. 11Cannon River, Lake Byllesby (W) Public Water Access Site: boat ramp on Lake Byllesby, ≈ 20.6 mi from downtown.

Lake Francis

Recorded in Lake Francis: Common Carp, Black Bullhead, Black Crappie, and Bluegill.

Surveyed depths in Lake Francis reach 60 ft.

  1. 12Frances Lake (E) Public Water Access Site: boat ramp on Lake Francis, ≈ 21.1 mi from downtown.

When the fish bite here

By our bite calendar, November is a slow month around Faribault for the fish recorded at these stops — the bars on each card show when each one picks up.

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Where this guide comes from

Every sentence here is assembled from the data on the Faribault fishing page: road drive times where a route was built (≈ marks straight-line distances), access points from state registries, the species recorded in each water and our bite calendar, adjusted for latitude. Nothing is written by hand or generated by AI.

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