Soldiers Grove, on the banks of the Kickapoo River in Wisconsin’s Driftless Region, is known for lots of things – awesome outdoor adventures like hiking, camping, fishing, and canoeing the Kickapoo River; fun festivities, like the annual Driftless Area Art...
We held a family reunion last weekend at a cabin on the Kickapoo River near Wauzeka. The cabin sits on a ledge overseeing the valley, suspended in the canopy like a tree house. The river lazily passed by just down the hill from the back porch. Siblings armed with...
So we headed up the hill under a twilighted sky, summiting around dusk and descending in the dark. I know this trail well. Each deadfall, tree root, and protruding rock fixed in my mind. But in the dark, things get misplaced. As two weeks ago when I tripped over a...
On September 18 and 19, the sixth-annual Driftless Area Art Festival celebrates that artistry at Soldiers Grove along the banks of the Kickapoo River, a setting seemingly plucked from the canvas of the landscapes on display. Eighty visual artists will exhibit – and...
The Kickapoo is billed as “the crookedest river in the world,” but it seems more lazy than shifty in its duty of carrying water to the Wisconsin River. You just have to be patient as it leads you aimlessly around the valley in no particular hurry, like a window...
