Devil’s Lake State Park

Founded in 1911, Devil’s Lake is the third oldest state park in Wisconsin, the largest and the most visited. Devil’s Lake offers magnificent views from 500-foot quartzite bluffs overlooking a 360-acre lake. Enjoy lakeshore picnic areas, sandy swimming beaches, 29 miles of hiking trails, a variety of camp sites, or ease into the backcountry solitude. […]

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Governor Dodge State Park

Governor Dodge State Park is one of the state’s largest parks, with 5,350 acres of steep hills, bluffs and deep valleys plus two lakes and a waterfall. Located in Wisconsin’s scenic Driftless area, Governor Dodge offers camping, picnicking, hiking, canoeing, biking, hunting, fishing, off-road biking, cross-country skiing and horseback riding opportunities. (Wisconsin Department of Natural […]

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Lake Marion Trail Village of Mazomanie

This paved bike-ped trail connects downtown Mazomanie to the village’s Lake Marion Park. The trail includes a 105-foot long boardwalk/bridge and changes 22 feet in elevation throughout its half-mile length. The former village millpond is currently drained for a renovation project expected to be completed in 2018. […]

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Black Earth Creek Public Fishing Access @ Mazomanie

Black Earth Creek Fishery Area is a pleasant mix of a high quality trout stream flowing within a wide green agricultural valley. The parcels typically mix stream stretches with adjoining riparian corridors that grade from a wet margin of jewelweed, aster, and reed canary grass into shrub, then sparse woodlot, then pasture or cultivated crop. […]

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County Highway F Bike Route

Northwestern Dane County is a wonderful place to live, work, and bike! Our rolling hills, farms and countryside, small towns, and villages are terrific places to visit by bike. Many new bike paths and trails offer wonderful recreational opportunities for the whole family. The bicycling routes shown on this website are found on the Dane […]

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County Highway J Bike Route

Northwestern Dane County is a wonderful place to live, work, and bike! Our rolling hills, farms and countryside, small towns, and villages are terrific places to visit by bike. Many new bike paths and trails offer wonderful recreational opportunities for the whole family. The bicycling routes shown on this website are found on the Dane […]

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County Highway JG Bike Route

Northwestern Dane County is a wonderful place to live, work, and bike! Our rolling hills, farms and countryside, small towns, and villages are terrific places to visit by bike. Many new bike paths and trails offer wonderful recreational opportunities for the whole family. The bicycling routes shown on this website are found on the Dane […]

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County Highway JJ Bike Route

Northwestern Dane County is a wonderful place to live, work, and bike! Our rolling hills, farms and countryside, small towns, and villages are terrific places to visit by bike. Many new bike paths and trails offer wonderful recreational opportunities for the whole family. The bicycling routes shown on this website are found on the Dane […]

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County Highway Y Bike Route

Northwestern Dane County is a wonderful place to live, work, and bike! Our rolling hills, farms and countryside, small towns, and villages are terrific places to visit by bike. Many new bike paths and trails offer wonderful recreational opportunities for the whole family. The bicycling routes shown on this website are found on the Dane […]

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Ice Age Trail Junction County Natural Resource Area

The 536-acre Ice Age Trail Junction Area, located just east of Verona, will create a Dane County link in the 1000-mile long Ice Age National Scenic Trail. This link, along with its connection to the Military Ridge State Trail, will connect the Ice Age Junction Area with statewide recreational trail networks. The area, which is […]

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Wolf Run Trail

For the first time in more than 150 years, Black Earth Creek once again flows freely from its headwaters in the City of Middleton through the rich agricultural lands and prairie remnants of Northwest Dane County to Blue Mounds Creek near its confluence with the Wisconsin River. Wolf Run Trail, part of a multi-use regional […]

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Military Ridge State Trail

The 40-mile Military Ridge State Trail, in Iowa and Dane counties, connects Dodgeville and Madison by way of an 1855 military route between Verona and Dodgeville. The trail runs along the southern borders of Governor Dodge and Blue Mound state parks passing by agricultural lands, woods, wetlands and prairies. There are several observation platforms adjacent […]

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County Highway KP Bike Route

Northwestern Dane County is a wonderful place to live, work, and bike! Our rolling hills, farms and countryside, small towns, and villages are terrific places to visit by bike. Many new bike paths and trails offer wonderful recreational opportunities for the whole family. The bicycling routes shown on this website are found on the Dane […]

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County Highway P Bike Route

Northwestern Dane County is a wonderful place to live, work, and bike! Our rolling hills, farms and countryside, small towns, and villages are terrific places to visit by bike. Many new bike paths and trails offer wonderful recreational opportunities for the whole family. The bicycling routes shown on this website are found on the Dane […]

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