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Plenty of restaurants offer Midwestern comfort food. Get the soup (there's always one
vegetarian and one vegan on offer) and a hunk of fresh bread to go at the
Driftless Market
(9 W. Main St., 608/348-2696, daily), a natural foods store.
Belmont
Don't blink or you'll whiz right past what is likely Wisconsin's smallest state park—
First
Capitol Historic Park
(608/987-2122, 10am-4pm daily in summer, free), seven miles east
of Platteville at Highways B and G. The glad-handing politics of pork were alive and well
in Wisconsin long before it was even a state. The powers that be finagled microscopic Bel-
mont into accepting territorial-capital status, though it was a lame duck from the start. The
hogs,chickens,andcowsthatstunkuptheoverheadgalleryintheoriginalbuildingarelong
