Tower Hill State Park (Wisconsin) and Pike’s Peak State Park (Iowa)

Tower Hill State Park sits above the Wisconsin River at Spring Green and offers campsites, nature and hiking trails, and picnicking facilities. The upland forests, a wide variety of plants, shrubs, birds, and animals, and a 175-foot Cambrian sandstone cliff make the park attractive for those who enjoy natural settings.

The location is the site of the lead region village of Helena and the place where Green Bay entrepreneur, Daniel Whitney, and his partners built a tower to make lead shot, hence the park name.

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Devil’s Lake and Roche-a-Cri State Parks

Devil’s Lake is located just south of Baraboo and at 9000 acres is the largest and most visited state park in Wisconsin. It is on the western edge of the last ice sheet deposited during the Wisconsin glaciation. It is known for its 500 feet high quartzite bluffs along the 360 acre lake.

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LaCrosse, Perrot and Merrick State Parks

The Mississippi river corridor is one of our favorite areas to explore. We started this jaunt with lunch at the Bodega restaurant in LaCrosse.

After lunch we stopped at Lock and Dam 6 in Trempealeau. Unfortunately no barges were going through when we visited.

Then we moved on to Perrot State Park.

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Cedarburg and Port Washington, Wisconsin

We like water. Rivers, lakes, oceans. We enjoy driving along coastlines and waterways and also dining waterside. Port Washington, Wisconsin is a city on Lake Michigan, about 30 miles north of Milwaukee. We had a lovely lunch there at Schooner Pub.

After that we took a walk near the lake.

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