Did your grandmother ever take you around to local cemeteries to see where relatives – some close, some distant – were buried? Mine did. On the face of it, that sounds a little creepy, but it wasn’t. Most cemeteries are rather nice places to visit. They’re normally well-groomed. The grass is lush. There may be …
Aztalan State Park is right up there with Lake Kegonsa and Roche-a-Cri when it comes to names that are difficult to pronounce correctly. Located just east of Lake Mills, Wisconsin, this park is also among those that are difficult to find (for the unprepared), despite some signage along a major interstate (I-94). How to Get …
About 75 years ago, folks got together and decided to put a manmade lake out in the middle of nowhere in southwestern Wisconsin. Thus, Yellowstone Lake and related state park were born. Yellowstone Lake State Park lies about halfway between Madison, Wisconsin, and Dubuque, Iowa. It’s also roughly equidistant from Platteville, Wisconsin, and Monroe, Wisconsin. …
And away we go! Or…went. The first Wisconsin state park we went to, after I decided to try to visit all of them, was Belmont Mound. We stopped there on our way home following a two-day vacation, of sorts, with relatives who live in Des Moines, Iowa. If you’re familiar with the state parks in …
