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Lake Wissota State Park is a 1,062-acre (430 ha) Wisconsin state park near the town of Chippewa Falls. The park is situated on the northeast shore of Lake Wissota, a reservoir on the Chippewa River. Camping, boating, and fishing are the most popular activities. Park lands are covered in a mix of pine/hardwood forests and prairie.
The state park is known for its 500-foot-high (150 m) quartzite bluffs along the 360-acre (150 ha) Devil's Lake, which was created by a glacier depositing terminal moraines that plugged the north and south ends of the gap in the bluffs during the last ice age approximately 12,000 years ago.
Banning State Park's drive-in campground has 33 sites (11 with electrical hookups), a camper cabin, and showers. There are four canoe campsites spaced along the river. Banning State Park staff also manage a campground within nearby General C. C. Andrews State Forest that boasts 38 drive-in sites, 2 walk-in sites, and a group tent camp. [2]
Some winters the lake freezes solid enough that the Park Service lets people walk from Meyers Beach across the lake ice to see the caves. Good examples of the sea caves of the Great Lakes are located on the shorelines of the Apostle Islands.
Shaded campground with 62 sites and one camper cabin. Two primitive group camps accessible by road at the east end of the park. Camping area for travelers on the Sakatah Singing Hills State Trail. Fishing: There is a fishing pier near the picnic area. Trails: There is a total of 39 miles (63 km) of trails in the park, most of them well-shaded.
Camping options in Wisconsin are plentiful. There are literally 6,000 unique campsites in the Wisconsin State Park System, plus private camping zones, rentals...
The park closed the ice caves to the public in 1980 in order to protect visitors. In 1978, the Paradise Ice Caves had a length of eight miles, according to Caving International magazine. Show comments
Mill Bluff State Park is a state park in west-central Wisconsin, United States.It is located in eastern Monroe and western Juneau counties, near the village of Camp Douglas.A unit of the Ice Age National Scientific Reserve, the park protects several prominent sandstone bluffs 80 feet (24 m) to 200 feet (61 m) high that formed as sea stacks 12,000 years ago in Glacial Lake Wisconsin.