Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
Biking
Pick a road, any road, in
Door County
and it'll be lovely, especially the empty old roads
on the Door's
Washington Island.
Mytoppickisthe32-mile
Elroy-Sparta Recreational Trail
20mileseastofLaCrosse
in Southwestern Wisconsin. This is the trail that pioneered U.S. rail-to-trail biking. You'll
pass lovely river scenery, charming villages, and massive erstwhile railroad tunnels.
Here's a gem for mountain bikers: the
Chequamegon Area Mountain Bike Trails
sur-
rounding Hayward in Northwestern Wisconsin. Even people from the Rockies come to ride
these. If that's too far away, in southeastern Wisconsin between Madison and Milwaukee,
the
Kettle Moraine State Forest-Southern Unit
is smaller but excellent.
Paddling
Canoeists have a few options of grossly underrated canoe trails. My favorite is in northern
Wisconsin some 25 miles from the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. The
Turtle-Flambeau
Flowage
is rightfully called Wisconsin's Boundary Waters. The
St. Croix National Scenic
Riverway
hassectionsofequallymagnificentcanoeing.HeadtoTrego,theheadquartersin
Northwestern Wisconsin, and judge for yourself.
Kayakers will never, ever forget an experience at the otherworldly sea caves of
Apostle
Islands National Lakeshore,
where Wisconsin runs up against Lake Superior.
