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hasremainedvirtuallyuntouched(andunwidened).Itstillhasoldoaksandrailfencesatits
verges and makes a beautiful tour.
State Rustic Roads are everywhere you look. One heads north of town along Honey
LakeRoad,MapleLane,andPleasantViewRoadtoHighwayDandWIS83,passingalong
the way a woodland preserve, dairy farms, and marshes with muskrat houses. Backtrack
to Highway DD and it picks up with another Rustic Road adjacent to the
Honey Creek
Wildlife Area.
This route also passes the
Franklyn Hazelo Home,
which is on the Na-
tional Register of Historic Places. Southeast of Burlington off WIS 142 via Brever Road
or Wheatland Road, a Rustic Road passes under an expanse of oak and black walnut trees.
Highlights include old barns, an old farmhouse, marshes, and lots of great fishing along the
Fox River, accessible from Hoosier Creek Road.
Burlington
ThetownofBurlingtonsitsabout25mileswestofRacine.Foratownofonly8,900people,
it's sure got a bunch of liars. The home of the world-famous Burlington Liar's Club, it
hosts an annual yarn- and fib-spinning festival and also distributes a brochure about the
town's
Tall Tales Trail.
Burlington is the hometown of Dallas Cowboys' quarterback Tony
Romo. Also called Chocolate Town USA (a Nestlé plant is here), Burlington has many
streets named after candy bars and, of course, the
Chocolate Experience Museum
(113
E. Chestnut St., in the Chamber of Commerce office, 262/763-6044, 9am-5pm Mon.-Fri.,
10am-2pm Sat., free).
The
Spinning Top Exploratory
(533 Milwaukee Ave., 262/763-3946,
www.topmuseum.org
,
$5) has more than 1,500 examples of yo-yos, tops, and anything else
that revolves. With reservations only, you get a tour featuring videos, demonstrations, and
game-playing, as well as a look at prototype tops used in a feature film on the subject.
Forabite,
B. J. Wentker's
(230Milwaukee Ave.,262/767-1514,11am-2pmand5pm-9pm
Mon.-Thurs., 11am-2pm and 5pm-10pm Fri., 5pm-10pm Sat., $18-32) is a classic Wiscon-
sin tavern more than a century old and has retained (though refreshed) gorgeous interiors,
especially the floor mosaics. They serve awesome food.
On Memorial Day weekend, little Burlington whoops it up during
ChocolateFest
