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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 ...
Parfreyville is an unincorporated community in the town of Dayton, Waupaca County, Wisconsin, United States. [2] Parfreyville is located on County Highway K 4 miles (6.4 km) southwest of Waupaca. The community was founded in 1851 by Robert Parfrey.
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.
Hoffman Hills State Recreation Area is a 707-acre (286 ha) unit of the Wisconsin state park system near Menomonie. A network of trails provides access to wooded hills, prairie, and wetlands. There are parking areas, picnic areas and a 60-foot (18 m) observation tower accessible by trail. [1]
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Medford is located on historic Ojibwe forest land acquired by the United States in the 1837 Treaty of St. Peters.In 1864, the federal government authorized a grant of some 837,000 acres (1,308 sq mi; 3,390 km 2) of this land to subsidize railway construction through the area.
Cataract is a census-designated place (CDP) in the Town of Little Falls in Monroe County, Wisconsin, United States. As of the 2010 census , its population was 186. [ 1 ]