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University of Wisconsin–Madison Arboretum
Walk difficulty: Easy
Best time to visit: May-Nov
Cost: $
- The University of Wisconsin–Madison Arboretum is the site of historic research in ecological restoration
- The Arboretum manages remnant forests and prairies throughout Wisconsin
- In addition to being a research facility, the Arboretum includes 20 miles of hiking trails, and 3 miles of biking roads
Green Bay Botanical Garden
Best time to visit: May-Nov
Cost: $
- Nonprofit botanical garden located in Green Bay, that contains several themed areas
- Some of the features include a Wisconsin interpretation of an English cottage garden; a children's garden, with a tree house, slide, maze, and sundial; and an informal garden of native trees, shrubs and wild flowers
Milwaukee Public Market
Best time to visit: May-Nov
Cost: $
- Public market located in Milwaukee, where space in the building is leased to vendors, primarily local food businesses
- The market's founders drew inspiration for the development from the Pike Place Market in Seattle, Washington, envisioning a space that would support smaller, local businesses
- Typical food offerings include bakery items, meats, produce, seafood, soup, cheese, spices, wine, coffee, and candies
Bay Beach Amusement Park
Best time to visit: June-Aug
Cost: $
- Municipal amusement park in Green Bay that contains rides, concessions, a roller coaster, and a food pavilion
- Dances, movies, and other events are held in a pavilion
#24 in Best Theme Parks in the USA
Bay View and Woods Trail Loop, Big Bay State Park
Walk difficulty: Easy
Best time to visit: June-Aug
Cost: $
- State park on Madeline Island, in Lake Superior
- The park has picturesque sandstone bluffs and caves and a sand beach
- It encloses unique habitat types including lakeside dunes, sphagnum bogs, and old-growth forest
- Bald eagles return annually to the park to nest and rear offspring
Cave Point Lakeside Trail, Cave Point County Park
Walk difficulty: Easy
Best time to visit: June-Aug
Cost: $
- Park featuring underwater caves, hiking trails, and limestone cliffs along scenic Lake Michigan
Meyers Beach Sea Cave Trail, Apostle Islands National Lakeshore
Walk difficulty: Moderate
Best time to visit: June-Aug
Cost: $
- National lakeshore consisting of 21 islands (Apostle Islands), on the shore of Lake Superior
- It is known for its collection of historic lighthouses, sandstone sea caves, a few old-growth remnant forests, and natural animal habitats
- Larger wildlife on the islands and surrounding area include whitetail deer, black bear, red fox, and coyote
Phoenix Park, Eau Claire
Best time to visit: June-Aug
Cost: $
- Public space in downtown Eau Claire, at the confluence of the Chippewa River and the Eau Claire River
- The park also offers a walking labyrinth, a natural amphitheater, and is home to Eau Claire's year-round farmer's market
Eagle Trail, Peninsula State Park
Walk difficulty: Moderate
Best time to visit: June-Aug
Cost: $
- Peninsula State Park is the third largest state park in Wisconsin
- Considered Wisconsin's most complete park, Peninsula has 468 campsites, three group camps, a summer theater, an 18-hole golf course, sand beach, biking, hiking and ski trails, 150-foot bluffs, a lighthouse and eight miles of Door County shoreline
Milwaukee Art Museum
Best time to visit: May-Nov
Cost: $
- Art museum in Milwaukee with a collection that contains nearly 25,000 works of art
- The museum houses works from antiquity to the present
- Included in the collection are 15th- to 20th-century European and 17th- to 20th-century American paintings, sculpture, prints, drawings, decorative arts, photographs, and folk and self-taught art
- Among the best in the collection are the museum's holding of American decorative arts, German Expressionism, folk and Haitian art, and American art after 1960
Devil's Lake via West Bluff Trail, Devil's Lake State Park
Walk difficulty: Moderate
Best time to visit: May-Nov
Cost: $
- State park located on the western edge of the last ice-sheet deposited during the Wisconsin glaciation
- The state park is the largest in Wisconsin, and is known for its 500-foot-high (150 m) quartzite bluffs along Devil's Lake
- Devil's Lake was created by a glacier depositing terminal moraines that plugged the north and south ends of the gap in the bluffs during the last ice age approximately 12,000 years ago
- The sand at the bottom of Devil's Lake is thought to be deposited by glaciers
Ice Age Trail HWY 67 Trailhead, Kettle Moraine State Forest Southern Unit
Walk difficulty: Easy
Best time to visit: May-Nov
Cost: $
- National Scenic Trail stretching 1,200 miles (1,900 km) through Wisconsin
- The trail roughly follows the location of the terminal moraine from the last Ice Age
- Numerous species of mammals can be seen along the trail, including red fox, American red squirrel, white-tailed deer, porcupine, black bear and grey wolf
Taliesin
Best time to visit: May-Nov
Cost: $
- Property completed in 1911, located south of the village of Spring Green, that was the estate of American architect Frank Lloyd Wright and an extended exemplar of the Prairie School of architecture
- The 600-acre (240 ha) property was developed on land that originally belonged to Wright's maternal family
- The design of the original building was consistent with the design principles of the Prairie School, emulating the flatness of the plains and the natural limestone outcroppings of Wisconsin's Driftless Area