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Blue Mound State Park: Dane: 1,153 467 1959 Ryan Creek: Contains observation towers atop the highest point in southern Wisconsin and the state park system's only swimming pool. [8] Brunet Island State Park: Chippewa: 1,225 496 1936 Chippewa and Fisher Rivers: Preserves a 179-acre (72 ha) island and backwater channels popular with canoeists. [9 ...
Big Foot Beach State Park is a state park of Wisconsin, United States, on Geneva Lake.The park is used primarily for hiking, swimming, camping, and fishing. The beach and park are named for Big Foot (a translation from the Potawatomi Maumksuck (Mmangzed), also known in French as Gros Pied), an early Potawatomi leader in the area until his band forcibly relocated by the United States in 1836.
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.
High Cliff State Park is a 1,187-acre (480 ha) Wisconsin state park near Sherwood, Wisconsin.It is the only state-owned recreation area located on Lake Winnebago. [2] The park got its name from cliffs of the Niagara Escarpment, a land formation east of the shore of Lake Winnebago that stretches north through northeast Wisconsin, Upper Michigan, and Ontario to Niagara Falls and New York State.
Terry Andrae State Park, established in 1927, and John Michael Kohler State Park, established in 1966, total 988 acres (4.00 km 2). The parks contain over two miles (3 km) of beaches and sand dunes along the shore of Lake Michigan , [ 1 ] with woods and wetlands away from the water.
A state historical marker in the park commemorates Brigham and his family's role in forming the park. [5] Nearby Blue Mound State Park was also formed from Brigham's land. [6] The park is the site of East Blue Mound, the highest point in Dane County at 1,489 feet (454 m). [7] The mound is the partner of the taller Blue Mound, which is the ...
Big Bay State Park is a state park of Wisconsin, United States, on Madeline Island, the largest of 22 Apostle Islands in Lake Superior. [1] The 2,350-acre (951 ha) park has picturesque sandstone bluffs and caves and a 1.5-mile-long (2.4 km) sand beach.
Potawatomi State Park was created in 1928 by the Wisconsin state legislature after the purchase of 1,046.10 acres from the federal government. During the ten succeeding years after the property was purchase, facilities for camping, picnicking, and hiking were developed.