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Baraboo Range in winter Looking east down the range on Wisconsin Highway 78. The Baraboo Range is a mountain range in Columbia County and Sauk County, Wisconsin. Geologically, it is a syncline fold consisting of highly eroded Precambrian metamorphic rock. It is about 25 miles (40 km) long and varies from 5 to 10 miles (16 km) in width.
Point of Rocks is located along the east side of a curve in US 12, 0.25 miles (0.40 km) south of its intersection with Wisconsin Highway 159.The outcropping itself is around 4,000 feet (1,200 m) thick and consists of maroon, pink, and purple quartzite, while the surrounding area is covered by trees.
Baraboo Quartzite is a Precambrian geological formation [1] of quartzite, found in the region of Baraboo, Wisconsin. While pure quartzite is usually white or gray, Baraboo Quartzite is typically dark purple to maroon in color, due to the presence of iron ( hematite ) and other impurities. [ 2 ]
The geology of Wisconsin includes Precambrian crystalline basement ... The Baraboo and Waterloo Quartzite in the south and the Barron ... Wisconsin Valley, and ...
Devil's Lake is a lake in the South Range of the Baraboo Range, about two miles south of Baraboo, Wisconsin, in Sauk County, Wisconsin, United States.It has no surface outlets, so by some definitions, it is endorheic; however, it possibly drains by underground channels into the Baraboo River, which would make the lake cryptorheic. [2]
Van Hise Rock is a rock monolith located along Wisconsin Highway 136 near Rock Springs, Wisconsin.The rock is a geologically significant outcropping of Baraboo Quartzite.. It serves as a monument to Charles Van Hise, a prominent Wisconsin geologist who studied the area extensively. [3]
Due to the long geological history of Devil's Lake and the Baraboo Range, the area has been used in geological research for years. The lake itself is rectangular in shape and is a little over a mile long from north to south and a half mile from east to west. It has many cliffs, unique rock formations and a variety of animal and plant species. [15]
Baraboo (/ ˈ b ɛər ə b uː / ⓘ BAIR-ə-boo) [6] is the county seat of Sauk County, Wisconsin, United States, located along the Baraboo River. [7] The population was 12,556 as of the 2020 census .