Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1921-07-14
WISCONSIN TO
Be. FAMOUS FOR
SPLENDID PARKS
BY o. d. Brandenburg

svstef1. 1t voted what practically is
n suftax that will yield about in one
year C$335;000 for the purchase OF
three areas. two Of exceptional seem
ic interest. These. are:
l.. The famed Dells of the Wiscon-.
sin river at fKilbourn, 55 miles north.
west of Madison. AT one. point the
broad Stream is compressed into a
narrow gorge not much over SO feet.
wide!t Here $4,000 are allotted to
secure from a. power dam company
the fEowage rights of some 200 acres ex
tending along one shore hearly six.
miles. Included in the tract are Cold
water Canyon and Witches Gulch,
fun of potholes and of surprising
pictdresquenesa. Standing Rock, an
other striking point. lies just outside;
but it's acduirement and many hum
dreds of acres more, will eusue, by
purchase, gift or condemnation, all in
due time.
2."A" big hill of some 80 acres. a
mile north of Beloit on the road to
GAINESVILLE 1t is high and wooded
with half a miIe of Rock river front,
along which Black Hawk and his Fox
and Sac savages came trooping in
1882, trooping to a sanguinary fate
at Bad Axe, few weeks later. For
this purchase $4,000, are assigned.
ttt/r.r Best Of All y" 49,.
9. Best Of all, $25O,O00 are granted for
the acquisition of what is to be known
as the Northern Lakes park of near
Iy 5000 acres in Price and Sawyer
counties, IS miles south of Lake
Superior, $50 miles from Minneapolis
and 200 from Madison,-a comfortable
days autofng over excellent roads;
or by rail, one may arrive, in a night,
from Chicago or Milwaukee, st. Paul
or Minneapolis, close to the various
portals. This superb park, notable
for its vast virgin forest, lies in a
region that, as whole includes more
than twenty crystal lakes and many
miles of broad and majestic river, all
banked by a great, unbrokef, forest
i. of pine, hemlock and hardwood, ira
versed by trails, dotted with springs,
and interspersed by numerous
streams.
FROM this was selected the best of
the river and the finest of the lakes,
Compactly grouped and easily acces-
sible which, with the necessary depth
of frontage, is now to be taken over
by the state as park and wild life
refuge.
This particular portion includes
over thirty miles of lakeshore, eight
miles Of the Flambeau rivers course
and land area Of 1854 acres. Of
this last; 351 acres are now owned
by the state another 700, as nearly
as can be estimated, have been i'm
proved, for summer home and resort
purposes, and are safe from spoila-
ton and the remainder, about 1900
acres, is the part which will be &C.
quired by the state, by purchase, con-
demnation or gift.
Spacious In Extent
The area SO selected, spacious in
beauties and almost unexampled in
its opportunities for recreation -
camping, tramping, boating, bathing,
and in fact all diversions of the
open-constitutes veritable cutters
paradise, the finest natural playground
in all the middle west. A# ";@t.,.3
In all directions, to the confines Of
the state. the timber has been largely
logged, and of all Wisconsin lake and
river regions, this, alone,/ remains
uncut. .e..%a..q0
The park lies largely between the
north and south forks of the F'lam-
beau river, tributary of the Chippe-
wa. The North Fork is the finest
waterwaysfor the outer in Wisconsin
and the very best of it which is in
cluded in the selected portion, flows:
IN a succession of deep, still reaches
and sweeping bends, mid all the glor-
les of primeVal grandeur Y unhurried,
and serene. Into this river, from all
directions, run many springfield
streams, breaking their way, ain
musical Fushes, over gravelf bars,
under and above the fallen debris of
the forest, and about the smooth
worn, messy stones. ~ hi.G 85;ts.4
Graceful Chain of Lakest2 = 2
The lakes are exquisite and not too
large for safety, permitting, from any
point, intimate views and Fvistas of
exquisite Ioyeiiness. They lie in a
graceful chain. The forest is what
the lumbermen call stand Of mixed
timber, pine, hemlock, birchy NAPLES
Eastwood, ash, elm, ironwo6d,, popple;
oak with here an there a elumpnof
baIsam, spruce, cedar. Some of
towering in its majesty IS The equal
of any the state has known. Tie whole
of it in the exuberante and variety.
Of It's foliage and the richness of its
eaoIoring,. especially in the afallois I'M
in all America Fhrodghb this
forest, for miles, one may follow, in,