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Wisconsin currently has 51 state park units, covering more than 60,570 acres (245.1 km 2) in state parks and state recreation areas. Each unit was created by an act of the Wisconsin Legislature and is maintained by the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources , Division of Parks and Recreation.
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. [2]
Kohler-Andrae State Park comprises two adjacent Wisconsin state parks located in the Town of Wilson, a few miles south of the city of Sheboygan. They are managed as one unit. Terry Andrae State Park, established in 1927, and John Michael Kohler State Park, established in 1966, total 988 acres (4.00 km 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 ...
The list of state parks in the United States are listed by individual state. List. Alabama; ... Wisconsin; Wyoming; See also. List of Canadian provincial parks;
Pineland Camping Park in Big Flats should be your next Wisconsin camping destination, according to USA Today. The family-owned campground is a little over a two-hour drive from Milwaukee and ...
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.
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