Where to go in Wisconsin

Welcome to Where to go Wisconsin.  This is where I offer a review of my personal travels in this great state.   It was primarily started because the official Wisconsin tourism website did not include places that were free which are primarily county parks. The county parks website really did not offer any kind of description other than location and the cost to rent a shelter for use.

Now in 2018 there is a more robust Wisconsin Travel Website and I insist you use it because Wisconsin has a better web developer and a bigger budget than this old bag of bones.   But that tourism website still will not tell you of the Jesuit Retreat Center. Travel Wisconsin also will not have anything on Letterboxing

So again, I welcome you to my WheretogoWisconsin.

Lizard Mound County Park - West Bend

The last visit I made to this park was when my kids were much, much younger.  Back then, there really wasn't much written about it and am relieved that others have managed to pick up this particular yoke of responsibility, especially since my extended affair with photography.

Lizard Mound County Park is a location I plan on revisiting for it's planted letterbox called Don't Bug Me.

A bit of history as borrowed from Wikipedia and the Washington County Website:

Native Americans we now know as the Effigy Mound Builders lived in Wisconsin and bordering states between 700 and 1200

Horicon Marsh - Horicon

For the longest time I drove past this area, daunted by the immense size of the marsh.  Even with all of the nice road signs you still didn't know if you were going to have a nice dry hike. It is a marsh after all.  If you were to have a staring contest with this marsh, the marsh would win. Back in the good ole days you didn't have a nature center with nice trail maps and bathrooms or a place to warm your bones. Fast forwarding a decade or two and it seems that there is finally a proper visitors center; a warm place to share the history, buy trinkets, and to relax and regroup. And yes, a bathroom.

Letterboxing

I have never heard of this before, but in reading up on it I realized that something of this nature had to exist before geocaching. The history of letterboxing begins in Dartmoor National Park, Devon, England approx 150 years ago, and it's only been since 1998 that America has been involved. The main supplies you need is a compass, logbook, pencil, and your own personal stamp and inkpad.