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and the Aspira spa are superb (good enough that they have a cooking school here now).
This is a real
wow
experience.
One of the most extraordinary meals of late has come at the newer
M
Paddock Club
(61 S. Lake St., 920/876-3288,
www.paddockclubelkhartlake.com
, 4pm-close Tues.-Sun.,
$18-38). You'll find indescribably good new American cuisine in another erstwhile gang-
ster hangout.
A crash course in geology helps preface a trip through the 29,000 acres of the northern
unit of the
Kettle Moraine State Forest
(262/626-2116). The
northern unit
was chosen
as the site of the Henry Reuss Ice Age Interpretive Center—on the Ice Age National Scenic
Trail—given its variegated topography of kettles, terminal moraines, kames, and eskers,
and all that other geological vocabulary. Surrounded by suburban expansion, it somehow
manages to hold 12 State Natural Areas inside its borders.
This northern swath of forest is the complement to its sibling southwest of Milwaukee.
Supporters of the forest have always envisioned the two sections of forest as a quasi-su-
perforest, concatenate segments of lands acting as an urban buffer zone along a 120-mile
eco-corridor.
Henry Reuss Ice Age Interpretive Center
Along WIS 67 near the Highway G junction is the
Henry Reuss Ice Age Interpretive
Center
(920/533-8322,8:30am-4pmMon.-Fri.and9:30am-5pmSat.-Sun.Apr.-Oct.,short-
er hours in winter). The back deck and short nature trail have outstanding vistas of the
whole topographical shebang. The exhibits and documentary theater are well worth a stop.
A self-guided 40-mile auto geology tour starts from the center.
Old Wade House and Wisconsin Jung Carriage Museum
Along WIS 23 in Greenbush the
Old Wade House
(Hwy. T, 920/526-3271,
www.wadehouse.wisconsinhistory.org
,
10am-5pm daily mid-May-mid-Oct., $11 adults)
sits along the oak plank road that stretched from Sheboygan to Fond du Lac. The state his-
toricsiteisawondrous,detailed reconstruction ofthe1848originalsawmill—note thepost
andbeamwork—oneoffewlikeitintheUnitedStates.Environmentallyfriendlyconstruc-
tion was used—as in the original.
