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Parfrey's Glen, located within Devil's Lake State Park, is a Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources-designated State Natural Area. The glen is a deep gorge cut through the sandstone of the south flank of the Baraboo Hills. It was the first State Natural Area to be designated in Wisconsin. [1] The valley was named for Robert Parfrey. [2]
The state park encompasses 9,217 acres (3,730 ha), [3] making it the largest in Wisconsin. [4] 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 ...
Wisconsin's State Natural Areas Program was created in 1951, the first such state-sponsored program in the United States, with guidance from early conservationists such as Aldo Leopold, Norman C. Fassett, Albert Fuller, and John Thomas Curtis. [2] Common SNA Sign Trempealeau Mountain SNA (viewed from Brady's Bluff SNA)
US 10 enters the state and Pierce County from Minnesota at Prescott and immediately joins with Wisconsin Highway 35 (WIS 35) north. WIS 35 turns north one mile (1.6 km) northeast at WIS 29 while US 10 continues east and passes through Ellsworth at the junctions with WIS 65 and US 63.
Sullivan (formerly Winfield) is a village in Jefferson County, Wisconsin, United States.The population was 651 at the 2020 census.The village is located within the Town of Sullivan, and is known to residents of southern Wisconsin including the Madison and Milwaukee metro areas as the location of the National Weather Service forecast office MKX, although its mailing address is in nearby Dousman.
Glen Haven is a town in Grant County, Wisconsin, United States. According to the 2000 census, the town population was 490. According to the 2000 census, the town population was 490. The census-designated place of Glen Haven is located in the town.
There were 893 housing units at an average density of 613.9 per square mile (237.8/km 2). The racial makeup of the village was 97.22% White , 0.48% Black or African American , 0.09% Native American , 0.65% Asian , 0.04% Pacific Islander , 1.17% from other races , and 0.35% from two or more races. 7.16% of the population were Hispanic or Latino ...
The population density was 1,243.9 people per square mile (479.9/km 2). There were 2,034 housing units at an average density of 581.6 per square mile (224.4/km 2 ). The racial makeup of the city was 98.69% White , 0.11% Black or African American , 0.18% Native American , 0.18% Asian , 0.02% from other races , and 0.80% from two or more races. 0 ...