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tinas and perhaps a delightful concert in the concert hall. This is Wisconsin, after all, where
the polka is the official state dance. Contact them to set up a visit.
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Pattison State Park
It wouldn't be a trip to Superior without a side trip to jewel of the state park system,
Pat-
tison State Park.
It features the graceful, thundering 165-foot Big Manitou Falls. It's the
highest cascade in Wisconsin—and one of the highest in the eastern United States.
Bisectingthepark,theBlackRiveractuallylookslikedarkbeer,attimesevenrefracting
reddish hues due to oxides in the area's soil. Flowing 22 miles toward Lake Superior from
Black Lake, along the Wisconsin-Minnesota border, it was dammed in the 1800s by lum-
bermen to avoid damaging logs by tumbling them over the great falls. Though it doesn't
affect the park's lake, the Department of Natural Resources dumps lampricidic chemicals
above Big Manitou Falls regularly to kill sea lampreys, which infest the tributaries of Lake
Superior.
