GREAT RIVER ROAD - Wisconsin - page 561

You'll see lots of motorcycles touring the Great River Road, so be careful when driving.
The Welcome and Heritage Center (233 Broad St. N, 715/262-3284 or 800/474-3723,
www.prescottwi.com ) has travel information as well as displays of local history.
TO LAKE PEPIN
Diamond Bluff, Hager City, and Bay City
The road gets serious outside of Prescott, rolling and bending, swooping and descending.
Later, it gets even more ambitious, a downright roller coaster toward Diamond Bluff. The
road, in fact, is bending around prominent Dry Run Coulee.
Beyond this, WIS 35 forsakes the river altogether, whipping eastward in a grand curl
before cutting south toward Diamond Bluff. This flyspeck town was the site of the state's
largestriverdisaster inthe19thcentury (aplaque tells thestory);today,keepaneyeoutfor
clamming boats. Better, heading west onto Highway E will take you along hills and small
roads to grand vistas.
Once again, the river bends sharply away from straight-as-a-preacher WIS 35; Hager
City comes and goes—oops, missed it. That's OK, as south of town you can jump off onto