State Park
The interest created by investigations into the trail's route inspired creation of Savanna Portage State Park in 1961. At some 14,000 acres (57 km2), it became the third-largest park in the system. It included within it the Floodwood Game Refuge; the park in turn is nearly surrounded by the Savanna State Forest. It is some 13.5 miles (21.7 km) long and nowhere more than 4 miles (6.4 km) wide, its shape being dictated in part by the portage corridor.
15,818 acres (64 km2) of hills, lakes, and bogs now comprise the park. Activities include summer and winter camping, hiking, snowshoeing, and ski touring on the old portage and other trails, mountain biking, and snowmobiling, as well as swimming, fishing, canoeing, and boating on Loon Lake.
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