If fishing’s your thing, pick a valley and choose a river. The Mississippi River along our western coast offers the best game fishing around. You can snare a bass in the weeds and catch a sunset over the Iowa bluffs in the same cast. And the Kickapoo Valley and tributaries offer world-class trout fishing, where a brown trout pulled from the eddy of a stream is as pretty as the walk in from the bridge.
Boating and canoeing our waterways rivals any pleasure you can dream up for an afternoon. For power-boating enthusiasts, the Mississippi makes for a grand playground, framed by towering bluffs and scattered with sandbars and islands for your midday picnic. Canoeists will find nothing more relaxing that a day on the Kickapoo River meandering through pastureland and canopy-lined woodlots.
The topography adds certain reward to your hiking and biking expeditions. Summiting a river bluff or rounding a ridge top to discover a never-before-seen panorama will take your breath away, if you still have one left from the climb.
Weekends get pretty busy around Driftless Wisconsin, so you’ll want to make your lodging reservations early. The area has a wide assortment, from large hotels with all the amenities to small motels with mom and pop friendliness; and from cozy B&B’s with their own special charm to secluded cabins tucked into the landscape.
We’ve only visited a few places and activities, and I know you can imagine more. Start at the beginning on our homepage and use the menus and your imagination to cruise Driftless Wisconsin. See you soon!
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