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and swamp white oak. A five-mile auto tour offers access to two shorter nature trails open
to hikers. Get off the beaten path by hiking along the spiderweb of old dikes and service
roads dating from the 1930s. Be careful, though; lots of the heath now shrouds old ditches,
andmantrap-sizeholeshavesnaredmorethanafew.Bikersarenotallowedoff-roadwithin
the refuge, but it is linked to local bike trails along the river.
Side Trips
From WIS 35 take WIS 93/54 east to trim and busy Galesville, parked in a crook of bluffs
overlooking Lake Marinuka. See the lake from lovely High Cliff Park and an anachronist-
ic wobbly footbridge and path along a bluff, leading to a spring.
overlooking Trempealeau National Wildlife Refuge
Otherwise, Galesville is chockablock with gingerbread Victorian and Queen Anne man-
sions. The AA Arnold Farm (19408 Silver Creek Rd., www.eastsidefarm.org , 2pm-4pm
Sun. in summer, free) is a magnificent Italianate edifice; more so is the farm's indoor
silo. For something completely different, check out the Phoneco Antique Phone Museum
(19813 E. Mill Rd., 608/583-2230, www.phonecoinc.com , free), actually a dealer in col-
lectible phones—a treasure trove of early Americana.