Arcola Creek Park
5 min drive
A protected estuary and barrier beach five minutes from the gate, on the site of a vanished port town.
Arcola Creek is the closest wild shoreline to the estate: a rare surviving Lake Erie estuary where the creek meets the lake behind a natural barrier beach.
The town of Ellensburg once stood at this junction, a working community of shipbuilders and fishermen. It is entirely gone. What remains is marsh, water birds and a quiet beach that almost nobody is on.
It is a five-minute drive and the single easiest thing to do before breakfast. Bring boots in spring.
From the innkeepers
This is the walk we send guests on when they want twenty minutes outside and nothing organized.
Season
Year-round
Good for
Short walks, birding, solitude
Address
6801 Dock Rd, Madison, OH 44057
Common questions
How far is Arcola Creek Park from Vincent William Wine?
About five minutes by car: it is the nearest stretch of protected Lake Erie shoreline to the estate.
What is special about the estuary?
Arcola Creek is one of the few relatively undisturbed estuaries left on the Ohio shore of Lake Erie, with a natural barrier beach and marsh that draw a great deal of birdlife.
Vincent William · Madison, Ohio
Good food. Estate wine.
A room by the lake.
Come spend some time at our family-owned restaurant, winery and eight-room adults-only inn on the Lake Erie shore.
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Vincent William
1300 Belleair Ave.
Madison, OH 44057
(440) 428-1300
Opening Hours
Wednesday
12 to 9 pm
Thursday
12 to 9 pm
Friday
12 to 9 pm
Saturday
12 to 9 pm
Sunday
11 to 8 pm · Brunch to 2
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Madison, Ohio · Lake Erie