Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
Islands National Lakeshore.
Everyone should trace the Lake Superior coast along
WIS
13
—the most scenic drive in the state, bar none.
Pattison State Park
offers the best
glimpseattheregion'ssuperbwaterfalls,butdon'tforsakeSuperior'shardest-working
har-
bor
in the country.
Great River Road
For 200 miles, find river towns that refuse to get sucked into tourist trapdom:
Alma,
funky
Trempealeau,
or
Cassville,
where eagles soar and one of the nation's last river ferries
chugs you across the Ol' Miss. See the commanding view at
Granddad's Bluff
in La
Crosse. At
Wyalusing State Park,
a ridgetop hike offers lovely views of the confluence of
the Wisconsin and Mississippi Rivers. No better example of what sprang from enterprising
settler souls exists than Prairie du Chien's
Villa Louis.
The Driftless Region
This, the largest unglaciated region in the northern Midwest, is where the land gets ambi-
tious.
Spring Green
was the home of Frank Lloyd Wright. Nearby, the architectural op-
posite:
House on the Rock.
Roll through
Mineral Point,
very nearly still a 19th-century
Cornishvillage,and
New Glarus,
asliceofSwitzerland.Waterloversheadfor
Lower Wis-
consin State Riverway
and, particularly, the Kickapoo River, which meanders through the
twists and turns of the
Kickapoo Valley Reserve.
The
Elroy-Sparta Trail
is the grand-
daddy of U.S. rail-to-trail biking.
Central Wisconsin Sands
Central Wisconsin sports the state's number one family attraction—water park-heavy
Wis-
consin Dells.
Butthepreternaturally lovelysandstonerisesareeasilythenicestboattourin
the state. Stretch the legs at the outstanding
Devil's Lake State Park,
including
Parfrey's
Glen Natural Area.
Continue east on a scenic drive to
Merrimac
and its ferry across the
Wisconsin River. Farther north, Wausau's
Leigh Yawkey Woodson Museum
houses one
of the state's most fascinating collections, dedicated to ornithological art.
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TWO DAYS:
VisitMilwaukeeandMadison,or,ifyouarearoadwarrior,combine
one city with a trip to Door County.