page_title: Mill Bluff State Park
section_title: Cultural history
hierarchical_section_title: Mill Bluff State Park / Cultural history
caption_attribution_description: English: Stairs built by the Works Progress Administration on Mill Bluff, Mill Bluff State Park, Wisconsin, USA
context_page_description: Mill Bluff State Park is a state park in west-central Wisconsin, United States. It is located in eastern Monroe and western Juneau counties, near the village of Camp Douglas. A unit of the Ice Age National Scientific Reserve, the park protects several prominent sandstone bluffs 80 feet to 200 feet high that formed as sea stacks 12,000 years ago in Glacial Lake Wisconsin. As a result, these bluffs are steep and angular, dissimilar to the rounded terrain more typical of the eastern half of the United States. The bluffs served as landmarks to both early pioneers and travelers today on Interstate 90/94, which passes through the park.
context_section_description: Several of the bluffs bear 400-year-old petroglyphs shaped like bird tracks, contemporaneous with the Roche-a-Cri Petroglyphs in Roche-a-Cri State Park.
  The diaries and journals of west-bound settlers often mention these bluffs.  A sawmill was operated in the vicinity, after which Mill Bluff was named.
  Mill Bluff and a small area at its foot was proclaimed a state park on August 13, 1936.  Mill Bluff State Park was added to the Ice Age National Scientific Reserve in May 1971.  The park's boundaries were expanded to include the other bluffs later.  In 2002 a portion of the park containing all of the major bluffs received a further level of protection as Mill Bluff State Natural Area.
caption: Stairs built by the Works Progress Administration up Mill Bluff
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