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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.
Charles Mound, the highest natural point in Illinois at 1,235 feet (376 m) NAVD 88, [55] is located in the Illinois portion of the Driftless Area. The Illinois portion of the Driftless Area is confined mainly to Jo Daviess County ; western parts of Carroll County (the Mississippi River bluffs characteristic of the Driftless terminate around ...
The Baraboo Range anchors the eastern edge where the Wisconsin River turns and runs through the area to the Mississippi River. The Baraboo Range is a monadnock in Sauk and Columbia Counties and a National Natural Landmark formed 1.6 billion years ago featuring Devil's Lake, an endorheic lake.
Devil's Lake State Park is located in the Baraboo Range, south of Baraboo, and covers 9,217 acres (37.30 km 2), [53] making it the largest park in the state. [54] The state park also includes the 500-foot-high (150 m) quartzite bluffs surrounding the lake, and 11 miles (18 km) of the Ice Age Trail . [ 55 ]
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.
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]
The park is on the edge of the Baraboo Range in an unglaciated Driftless Area of south-central Wisconsin. Outcrops of quartzite, hardened sand deposited about 1.6 billion years ago jut out of the tops of these hills. The arch and rock shelter have been weathered out of one such outcropping. The top of the arch is 35 feet (11 m) above the ground.
Baraboo Range. The National Natural Landmarks (NNLs) in Wisconsin include 18 of the almost 600 such landmarks in the United States. [1] They cover areas of geological, biological and historical importance, and include dune and swales, swamps, bogs, and virgin forests. [1] Several of the sites provide habitat for rare or endangered plant and ...