Yellow River (Chippewa River tributary)

[1] This area of small lakes and swamps is the terminal moraine left by the last glacier, which reached this far about 18,000 years ago.

[2] The river runs a short way before it forms Chequamegon Waters Flowage, locally known as Miller Dam.

[4] Logging had begun on the upper Yellow by 1861, when a log-driving dam existed at Hughey.

Bruno Vinette, an early lumberman, tells of running a rapids on the Yellow: I remember once when the water was very high, Gilbert and Company, on the Yellow River, needed just one crib to complete a raft and offered me twenty-five dollars to bring it down.

Wildlife abounds around the river including deer, bear, wolves, bobcat, coyote, ruffed grouse, beaver, otter, muskrat, mink, raccoon, turkey and waterfowl.