Craft Access
✓
Motorboat ✓
Kayak / Canoe ✓
Jet Ski / PWC ✓
Large 22ft+ Site Details
Conditions change rapidly due to water levels, prop wash, and weather. Always visually inspect before backing down.
RampConcrete, 2 lanes
DockStaging dock
Trailer Parking21 spots · paved
Vehicle-Only6 spots
Crowding Steady around the clock without ever feeling busy — the 21-spot lot absorbs the crossroads traffic easily outside tournament season.
Plan B — if this lot is full Lake Hartridge ramp (daytime, one lake north)
Howard's 24-hour pair (one canal south)
Howard's 24-hour pair (one canal south)
FeeNo fee
HoursRamp open 24 hours
SeasonOpen year-round
RestroomsModern restroom (1)
Not Available Fish cleaning · Fishing pier · Pier
Scout's Notes
Ramp Quirks & Etiquette
Full Service, All Night
Two concrete lanes, staging dock, twenty-one trailer spots, and — the rarity — flush restrooms at a 24-hour ramp, all free. For overnight missions and dawn patrols anywhere on the chain's middle, this Polk County facility is the class of the around-the-clock options.
The Crossroads Position
From this basin: south canal to Howard and the restaurant circuit, north canal through Idylwild to Jessie's seaplanes and Hartridge's lock, east canal (low bridge!) to Mirror and Spring. No ramp on the chain launches you closer to more different kinds of water.
Mind the Mirror Gate
The east canal's fixed bridge is the chain's lowest — small craft only. Everything else about this lake is forgiving; that one span is not.
Sources: FWC boat-ramp inventory (PO00067FA), Polk County
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