Ballast Island (Lake Erie)

Ballast Island (left) and Lost Ballast Island as viewed from the Sonny-S between Middle Bass Island and South Bass Island.

Ballast Island is a small, 15-acre (0.049 km²)[1] private island on Lake Erie in the U.S. state of Ohio, about one-quarter mile (0.4 km) northeast of the northeast tip of South Bass Island. It is known primarily as a navigation point for boats going to or from Put-in-Bay from the east. There are shoals between Ballast and South Bass, but there is a passage between known locally as "the wagon tracks".

  1. ^ "Explore the Lake Erie Islands: A Guide to Nature and History Along the Lake Erie Coastal Trail" (PDF). OhioSeagrant. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-02-22. Retrieved 2023-11-07.