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Autumn in the Driftless Area of Cross Plains, Wisconsin. The Driftless Area, also known as Bluff Country and the Paleozoic Plateau, is a topographical and cultural region in the Midwestern United States [1] that comprises southwestern Wisconsin, southeastern Minnesota, northeastern Iowa, and the extreme northwestern corner of Illinois.
Glacial Lake Wisconsin 20,000 years ago with modern counties for geographical context. Glacial Lake Wisconsin was a prehistoric proglacial lake that existed from approximately 18,000 to 14,000 years ago, at the end of the last ice age , in the central part of present-day Wisconsin in the United States .
Kettle lakes and ponds, stagnant ice terrain, ice-walled lake plains: Interpretive center, camping, and trails Cross Plains State Park: Cross Plains: Driftless Zone topography, glacial lakes, gorge: Trails Devil's Lake State Park: Baraboo: Large kettle lake, terminal moraine: Interpretive center, camping, non-motorized boating, trails, swimming ...
51b - Central Wisconsin Undulating Till Plain; 51c - Glacial Lake Wisconsin Sand Plain; 51d - Central Sand Ridges; 51e - Upper Wolf River Stagnation Moraine; 51f - Green Bay Till and Lacustrine Plain; 51g - Door Peninsula; 52 Driftless Area. 52a - Savanna Section; 52b - Coulee Section; 53 Southeastern Wisconsin Till Plains. 53a - Rock River ...
Ocooch Mountains are a place name for the Western Upland area of Wisconsin also known as the Driftless Region, meaning un-glaciated, lacking glacial drift or the Paleozoic Plateau, referring to a geologic era, Greek for "ancient life". The lack of glaciated terrain accounts for high hills, bluffs, and ridges.
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.
However, the Dells itself was never covered by glacial ice sheets – it was part of the large Driftless Area that was bypassed by the ice. The melting of the glacier formed Glacial Lake Wisconsin, a lake about the size of Great Salt Lake in Utah and as deep as 150 feet (45 m). The lake was held back by an ice dam of the remaining glacier.
The Ice Age Trail is a National Scenic Trail stretching 1,200 miles (1,900 km) in the state of Wisconsin in the United States. [1] [2] The trail is administered by the National Park Service, [3] and is constructed and maintained by private and public agencies including the Ice Age Trail Alliance, a non-profit and member-volunteer based organization with local chapters. [4]