Celebrate the paddlesports! We encourage residents and visitors to enjoy paddling on the calm waters, extensive natural shorelines, and wildlife habitat of Millers Bay - today and every day! Millers Bay and the canal winding from Millers Bay through Gull Point State Park to Turtle Lake are THE premier destinations on West Lake Okoboji for the paddlesports and ecotourism*. Millers Bay is Paddler’s Cove!

Kayaks, paddleboards, and canoes can be launched directly into Millers Bay in Wahpeton from the DNR’s gently-sloped “fishing access” at Oak Street or at Miller Street, both in Wahpeton.

Protect Millers Bay!

🌿 Please clean off aquatic vegetation from all water recreation equipment and gear before coming to Millers Bay and before leaving. Millers Bay is particularly susceptible to Eurasian watermilfoil, which creates dense surface mats - a recreation killer! Fragments of Eurasian watermilfoil hitchhike on water equipment from one area of the Okoboji chain to others, unless equipment is thoroughly cleaned of all weeds first.

♻ Trash floating on the water or along the shoreline can be deposited in the black mesh bag hanging on the end of The Millers Bay Conservancy’s kayak launch dock at Miller Street.

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*ECOTOURISM = “Responsible travel to natural areas that conserves the environment...and involves interpretation and education” (Int'l Ecotourism Society).

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