Shell Lake is a city in Washburn County, Wisconsin, United States.

It operates the oldest summer jazz camps for youth in the nation,[citation needed] taught by master musicians and teachers from Chicago, St. Paul-Minneapolis, Milwaukee, the University of Wisconsin System, the University of Minnesota and elsewhere.

Wisconsin Indianhead Technical College (WITC) has its administrative offices in Shell Lake.

U.S. Highway 63, the major north-south arterial for the city, passes along the western shore of Shell Lake.

County Road B serves as a northern east-west arterial and city limit and County Road D serves as the southern limit and east-west arterial.

Shell Lake Municipal Airport (ICAO: KSSQ, FAA LID: SSQ) is located southeast of the central business district.

It has a year-round 3,711-foot asphalt runway with pilot controlled medium intensity runway lights, PAPI visual glide slope indicators and both GPS and VOR/DME based instrument approaches.

[15][citation needed] Established in 1898, the Shell Lake Fire Department serves the City of Shell Lake and 180 square miles of territory in the towns of Barronett, Bashaw, Beaver Brook, and Sarona in Washburn County and the towns of Dewey and Roosevelt in Burnett County.

The Shell Lake Fire Department assists the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources in wildland fire protection, cold water and ice rescue training, water rescues, auto extrications, and other services.

[citation needed] Ambulance service is provided by North Memorial Medical Center's Spooner/Shell Lake station.