If you live in Wisconsin or Minnesota (or possibly anywhere else), you likely realize where the name, Wissota, comes from. Wikipedia claims: “An engineer on the [Lake Wissota Hydroelectric Dam] project [that created the lake], Louis G. Arnold, named the lake by combining the beginning of “Wisconsin” and the ending of “Minnesota”.” And you would …
This article is about our second visit to Wyalusing State Park. Sadly, I don’t have the pictures I took on our first visit. (Or, if I do still have them, I can’t find them.) Those pictures included a shot of the confluence of the Wisconsin and Mississippi rivers. These do not. This second hike was …
How do you get to Nelson Dewey State Park? To me, the only reasonable path is to take the ferry from Iowa to Cassville and then drive the couple of miles up the road to the park. The problem, of course, is this: How do you get to the Iowa side of the Mississippi River? …
When we first decided to visit Nelson Dewey State Park, I thought it only made sense to approach it via the Cassville ferry. The problem with that idea is that we live in Wisconsin on the eastern side of the Mississippi River and to do this correctly we needed to be on the western side …
