Offers hiking trails, stairstep path to the top of Brady's Bluff, Indian mounds, wildflowers, campsites, picnic area, canoe rental, public boat landing, cross country ski trails, naturalist program and nature center. Excellent bird watching. Wildcat Mountain State Park 3,500-acre park along the unglaciated Kickapoo Valley. Offers canoeing, hiking, horse trails, picnic areas, family campground, group campground, horsetrail campground, and cross country skiing.
Migratory birds concentrate here in the spring and fall, and bald eagles are numerous.
This refuge starts at the Chippewa River in Wisconsin and extends to just shy of Rock Island, Illinois. It starts in Onalaska, Wisconsin and continues to the Trempealeau National Wildlife Refuge nine miles north of Trempealeau, Wisconsin. The trail has 18 bridges, and traverses a mixture of prairie and bottom lands with gorgeous views of the Mississippi River along the way. Great blue herons, egrets, deer, squirrels, fox, and raccoons are common habitants of the region. The La Crosse River Trail connects to the Great River State Trail in Onalaska and heads east following the La Crosse River to Sparta.