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, 1 lane
DockLaunch dock
Trailer Parking12 spots · paved
Crowding Quiet most days — a secluded lot serving anglers, birders, and fossil pickers in gentle rotation. Fills only on perfect winter weekends.
Plan B — if this lot is full No alternate public ramp on Hancock (Winter Lake Road access permanently closed) — nearest launches are the Winter Haven chain ramps or Lakeland's Lake Parker complexes
FeeNo fee
HoursDaytime county-park hours
SeasonOpen year-round
Not Available Fish cleaning · Fishing pier · Restrooms · Pier
Scout's Notes
Ramp Quirks & Etiquette
Doorstep of the Peace
One concrete lane and a dock on Saddle Creek at 220 Farm Road off US 98 — the lake opens just upstream, the P-11 structure works just downstream behind its buoy line, and the Peace River's hundred-mile run starts at your transom. Free, daytime hours, county-kept, with the Panther Point trail crossing overhead.
The Closure Pattern
When heavy rain runs the flood gates, currents here turn genuinely dangerous and the county shuts the ramp — twice in 2024, with the post-Milton closure lasting a month. After named storms or week-long rains, check the county's news page before towing.
Drought Flips It
With P-11 closed since April 2026 the outlet currents are gone, but the lake is running roughly 2.5 feet low — expect shallow margins and shoals on a four-to-eight-foot lake, and check polkfl.gov before towing.
Wilderness Manners
Rock-hounds work the bank for fossils and agates, birders line the trail, and the local alligators treat the creek as home ground. Launch efficiently, idle past the barrier with respect, and give Circle B's shoreline the wide berth its residents have earned.
Sources: Polk County facility page & closure/reopening releases (Nov 2024), boater and visitor reports, coordinates right-click verified (July 2026)
About This Lake
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