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in semi-large towns.) Restaurants and nightspots often list their addresses according to the
snowmobile route you'll find them on.
Intotal, thestate maintains 25,000miles ofinterconnected trails, sowell linked that you
can travel on them continuously from Kenosha in southeastern Wisconsin all the way to
Lake Superior in the northwest. Nearly half of the 42 state recreation trails permit snow-
mobiling; so do 15 state parks and forests, and the national forests are wide open.
Wisconsin features unbeatable canoeing and kayaking. Nationally regarded or federally
designated Wild Rivers include the
Wolf River,
a federal Outstanding Water Resource
coursing through the Menominee Indian Reservation; the
Flambeau River
system, one of
the wildest in the Midwest; the
Bois Brule River,
famed for its trout; the
Montreal River,
home of the Junior World Kayak Championships; the unknown but exquisite
Turtle River,
leading into Wisconsin's Turtle-Flambeau Flowage in the most unspoiled section of the
state; the
Pine
and
Popple Rivers
in the Nicolet National Forest; the wild
Peshtigo River;
the lazy, classic
Lower Wisconsin State Riverway;
the
La Crosse River;
the
Kickapoo
River
(the “crookedest in the world”); the
Yahara River,
one reason
Canoeist
magazine
calls Madison a canoeing mecca; and perhaps the most popular, the
Manitowish River,
in
the Northern Highland American Legion State Forest inoneofthe planet'sdensest concen-
trations of lakes.
