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Rock Lake is perhaps most famous for its underwater rock piles frequently claimed to be pyramids built by the Mississippian culture at a time when water levels were much lower. [3] Mounds shaped like pyramids exist three miles (5 km) east of Rock Lake in Aztalan State Park on the Crawfish River in the town of Aztalan, Wisconsin.
1855 map of Aztalan historical site; north is to the right. Aztalan State Park is a Wisconsin state park in the town of Aztalan, Jefferson County.Established in 1952, it was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1964 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1966.
Devil's Lake (Wisconsin) Devil's Lake State Park (Wisconsin) Eagle River (Wisconsin River tributary) Eau Claire, Wisconsin; Elk Mound; Fond du Lac, Wisconsin; Geneva Lake; Green Bay, Wisconsin; Green Bay–Austin Straubel International Airport; Half Moon Lake (Polk County, Wisconsin) Hudson, Wisconsin; Interstate Park; Janesville, Wisconsin
This is a list of notable burial mounds in the United States built by Native Americans. Burial mounds were built by many different cultural groups over a span of many thousands of years, beginning in the Late Archaic period and continuing through the Woodland period up to the time of European contact.
The Yahara River (/ j ə ˈ h ær ə /) is a tributary of the Rock River in southern Wisconsin. It is about 62 miles (100 km) long [3] (including the distance across intervening lakes), and drains an area of 536 square miles (1,390 km 2). [4] Via the Rock River, it is part of the watershed of the Mississippi River.
The park features a 300-foot (91 m) rock outcropping with Native American petroglyphs—the Roche-a-Cri Petroglyphs—and a wooden stairway to the top, as well as more than 5 miles (8.0 km) of hiking trails. [1] The petroglyphs are the only publicly accessible rock art site in the state of Wisconsin. [2]
The Rock River Trail in Dodge County, Wisconsin. The river is used for various water and paddling sports. The Rock River Water Trail is on the river from its headwaters above the Horicon National Wildlife Refuge in south central Wisconsin to the confluence with the Mississippi River at the Quad Cities of Illinois and Iowa 330 miles downriver ...
Unmetamorphosed sedimentary rocks are found in the rock record from the Cambrian, in the early Paleozoic.The feldspathic quartz sandstone and orthoquartz sandstone of Chequamegon, Devils Island and Orienta formations make up the Bayfield Group which underlies the entire Lake Superior shoreline of the state from Chequamecon Bay to the St. Louis River in the west.