Hiking is available in virtually every state park. Check the trail lengths and difficulty before you start your trek.
This is the account of our fourth and final visit to a state park during our week-long stay in Door County, June 4 through June 9, 2023. Probably the most important feature of Newport State Park is its location. Since its northern end is only a couple of miles from the tip of the Door …
This is the account of our third visit to a state park during our week-long stay in Door County, June 4 through June 9, 2023. Whitefish. What is whitefish? It’s what they use in a Door County fish boil. But what kind of fish is it exactly? And why is it included in the name …
This is the account of our second visit to a state park during our week-long stay in Door County, June 4 through June 9, 2023. Peninsula State Park, along with Devil’s Lake and Willow River, is one of the most popular parks in Wisconsin. I think that being in northern Door County has a lot …
This is the account of our first visit to a state park during our week-long stay in Door County, June 4 through June 9, 2023. Getting to Rock Island State Park takes a little more effort and planning than what is needed for other Wisconsin state parks. As the park is an island (and the …
Mill Bluff State Park was the last of four parks we visited in one excursion. The other three were Council Grounds, Kinnickinnic, and Willow River. Mill Bluff is what I would call a simple park. There’s very little in the way of trails (and we didn’t even hike it/them, as you’ll see). There’s one big …
Willow River State Park is one of the more popular among Wisconsin state parks, primarily because it has a large waterfall that isn’t likely to dry up as it’s so close to the river’s mouth which joins the St. Croix River about 5 miles downstream. Getting to and from the falls can be quite the …
Kinnickinnic State Park is a nice place to visit…if you can find it! We came from a hotel in Hudson, which is almost 10 miles (not 8.7, as the official trail map suggests) from the park. Driving south on County F, there is one small sign half a mile before you get to the road …
We often try to double-up or triple-up our visits to state parks on our journeys. Council Grounds State Park would pair nicely with Rib Mountain State Park, since they’re only about half an hour apart from each other. However, on this trip, since we had already visited Rib Mountain last year, we just took in …
There are 5 state parks in Door County, Wisconsin. We had originally thought to visit all of them in one trip, but we decided to “knock off” the southernmost, Potawatomi State Park, with a separate trip of its own. (We still plan to hit the other 4 parks in one week in June of 2023.) …
At just 77 acres, Tower Hill State Park is the 4th smallest state park in Wisconsin. So it doesn’t take long to see all there is to see. Unfortunately, what there is to see is less than what I had hoped to see. We visited Tower Hill State Park the day after we hiked in …
