Three access locations are a snowmobile trail to Smith and Oberlin Lakes, an unimproved road to Prong Lake, and a gated road leading to the southwest shore of Bittersweet Lake. The site contains four clear soft-water lakes in a wild setting, each separated by an isthmus. Four oligotrophic seepage lakes are the main features of this natural area. All have a variety of bottom substrates, ranging from sand and gravel to rock and muck, are slightly acidic, and have relatively high water clarity.
Water levels fluctuate slightly each year.
The aquatic vegetation consists of many unusual plants including pipewort, watershield, bur-reeds, golden pert, quillworts, water lobelia, waterweed and the rare plantain shoreweed. The shores are ringed by a narrow zone of shrubs, which changes abruptly to uplands. Northern mesic forest is found in the northwestern part of the site. The fishery consists of walleye, northern pike, large and smallmouth bass, and panfish. Common loons have nested in the tract.