In Towne Marina Lake Waconia - 1/20/23 - Access remains temporarily closed for any use other than walking with portables...

Our access remains temporarily closed all day today (Friday, 1/20/23) for any use other than walking with portables. We understand that may be unpopular with some of you. We wish to have our access open more than anyone. We are keeping it closed so that water and slush further up the road can freeze properly and limit potholes and rutting that will impact use the rest of the winter. Currently there are stretches of our road past Waconia Bay leading to Center and Pillsbury that still have several inches of water and slush between snowbanks. As for roads others have plowed, you’ll likely find significant water, slush and ice chunks between the banks of the roads in Wagener’s Bay.

We hope temps get cold enough overnight that we see improvement with more freezing of the slush on our main road to allow us to open the access up for vehicle use sooner than later. It may remain closed this weekend depending on how that goes. Even when we do open the access, it won’t magically mean things are easy getting around off the road to bring a fish house. We are seeing even more wet slush off the roads under snow than this past weekend. Truthfully, we don’t expect the slush situation off the road to improve until we get further into next week when the deep freeze hopefully comes. Therefore, if we do open the access back up, it will likely only be for vehicles without fish houses for a bit. For those coming out to walk on with a portable, be prepared to set up well off the road, away from others’ fish houses and look for “higher” ice that has re-frozen so you limit flooding around you.

We will update you with our access and lake road situation when we see improvements in the coming day(s). In the meantime, we continue to preach patience. We hope our decision to limit our access use will help things heal on the ice to allow for better and easier ice fishing ahead. Have a good weekend.