Point Beach Ridges is a 558-acre natural area in Manitowoc County, Wisconsin, within Point Beach State Forest, distinguished by a landscape of alternating ridges and swales. This unusual terrain gives the site its defining character and underlies its importance as a protected landscape. Wisconsin designated it a State Natural Area in 1971, and it gained additional national recognition as a National Natural Landmark in 1980. Its significance today rests on the preservation of this ridge-and-swale topography within the broader forest setting.