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Badger native
Frank Lloyd Wright
architecture. Hop onto the narrower ribbons and dis-
cover the
Geneva Lake
area. A crucial North American migration flyway is
Horicon
Marsh.
Door County
Jutting into Lake Michigan, the “thumb” of Wisconsin geographically, merely offers, mile
for mile, the most sublime collection of
state parks
in the Midwest and the highest con-
centration of
lighthouses
of any U.S. county. How about
picturesque towns
right out of
19th-century postcards? Off the northern tip lies
Washington Island,
an isolated commu-
nity where time seems not to matter much at all. Beyond is another island,
Rock Island
State Park,
the most superb camping spot in the state.
East-Central Waters
Thesewaterstrulymadethestate,welcominglegionsofimmigrantsandfloatingtimberfor
paper mills of the
Fox Cities,
dominated by the enormous
Lake Winnebago.
To the west
are such picturesque resort lands you'll run out of digital storage, as well as the wild and
wonderful
Wolf River.
No visit to Wisconsin would be complete without a pilgrimage to
one of the NFL's most, well, sacred institutions:
Lambeau Field,
home of the
Green Bay
Packers.
