Year County or Body of SNo Park name Area estab- Remarks counties water lished Amnicon 825 acres Amnicon Contains a series of waterfalls and a historic 1 Falls State Douglas 1961 (334 ha) River covered bridge. Park Interprets a partially reconstructed Mississippian Aztalan State 172 acres Crawfish 2 Jefferson 1947 culture village that flourished 1000–1300 CE. The Park (70 ha) River site is a National Historic Landmark. Belmont Features a 64-foot (20 m) observation tower atop 3 Mound State Lafayette 1961 None a 400-foot (120 m) hill. Operated by the Belmont Park Lions Club. 2,418 Big Bay State Lake Includes a 1.5-mile (2.4 km) beach on Madeline 4 Ashland acres 1963 Park Superior Island, largest of the Apostle Islands. (979 ha) Big Foot 272 acres Geneva Offers camping and fishing adjacent to a 100-foot 5 Beach State Walworth 1949 (110 ha) Lake (30 m) beach. Park 1,153 Contains observation towers atop the highest point Blue Mound 6 Dane acres 1959 None in southern Wisconsin and the state park system's State Park (467 ha) only swimming pool. 1,225 Chippewa Brunet Island Preserves a 179-acre (72 ha) island and backwater 7 Chippewa acres 1936 and Fisher State Park channels popular with canoeists. (496 ha) Rivers 6,990 Protects a scenic peninsula on a reservoir formed Buckhorn Castle Rock 8 Juneau acres 1971 at the confluence of the Wisconsin and Yellow State Park Lake (2,830 ha) Rivers. Cadiz Springs Beckman State 644 acres Offers water recreation on two spring-fed 9 Green 1970 and Zander Recreation (261 ha) reservoirs in the mostly lakeless Driftless Area. Lakes Area Capital Encompasses park properties just south of 3,000 Springs State Lake Madison unified in the centennial year of the state 10 Dane acres 2000 Recreation Waubesa park system. A Native American archaeological (1,200 ha) Area site is on the NRHP. Chippewa 3,272 Moraine State Numerous Interprets varied glacial landforms. The park is a 11 Chippewa acres 1971 Recreation kettle lakes unit of the Ice Age National Scientific Reserve. (1,324 ha) Area Copper Interprets a burial ground used by the Old Copper 42 acres Oconto 12 Culture State Oconto 1959 Culture from 3000–2000 BCE. The site is a (17 ha) River Park National Historic Landmark. 3,068 Contains 7.5 miles (12.1 km) of the Bad River, Copper Falls 13 Ashland acres 1929 Bad River including a 2-mile (3.2 km) gorge with several State Park (1,242 ha) waterfalls. The park is listed on the NRHP. Council 509 acres Wisconsin Lies on a riverbank where Native Americans were 14 Grounds Lincoln 1938 (206 ha) River said to have once held councils. State Park Protects a 360-acre (150 ha) endorheic lake in the 10,200 Devil's Lake Baraboo Range, hemmed in by moraines and 500- 15 Sauk acres 1911 Devil's Lake State Park foot (150 m) quartzite bluffs. The park is a unit of (4,100 ha) the Ice Age National Scientific Reserve. Fischer Creek Preserves a mile of shoreline flanking the mouth State 124 acres Lake 16 Manitowoc 1991 of Fischer Creek. Managed by the Manitowoc Recreation (50 ha) Michigan County Park System. Area Governor 5,270 Preserves Driftless Area topography in memory of Two man- 17 Dodge State Iowa acres 1948 Henry Dodge, settler and first governor of the made lakes Park (2,130 ha) Wisconsin Territory. Governor 422 acres Lake Contains a 500-foot (150 m) beach, restored 18 Nelson State Dane 1975 (171 ha) Mendota prairie, and ancient Indian mounds. Park Governor 2,600 Peshtigo In development around a series of lakes and 19 Thompson Marinette acres 2000 River, streams. State Park (1,100 ha) Woods Lake Harrington 637 acres Lake Features a mile-long beach, a white cedar swamp, 20 Beach State Ozaukee 1966 (258 ha) Michigan and a 26-acre (11 ha) quarry lake. Park Hartman 1,417 Hartman Waupaca 21 Creek State acres 1962 Creek, seven and Portage Park (573 ha) lakes Heritage Hill Comprises an open-air museum of 25 historical State 48 acres structures and over 11,000 artifacts managed by a 22 Brown 1973 Fox River Historical (19 ha) non-profit organization. Six of the buildings are Park on the NRHP. 1,147 Straddles the cliff of the Niagara Escarpment on High Cliff Lake 23 Calumet acres 1954 the northeast shore of Wisconsin's largest lake. A State Park Winnebago (464 ha) group of effigy mounds is on the NRHP. Hoffman Features trails and a 60-foot (18 m) observation Hills State 707 acres 24 Dunn 1980 None tower among hills covered in forest, prairie, and Recreation (286 ha) wetlands. Area Preserves a basalt river gorge joinly with an adjacent state park in Minnesota. The park is 1,330 St. Croix Interstate within the Saint Croix National Scenic Riverway 25 Polk acres 1900 River, Lake State Park and the Ice Age National Scientific Reserve and (540 ha) O' the Dalles contains the western terminus of the Ice Age Trail. St. Croix 1,239 Kinnickinnic and Offers boat-in camping and overlooks at the 26 Pierce acres 1972 State Park Kinnickinnic sandy river delta at the mouth of the Kinnickinnic. (501 ha) Rivers Kohler- Lake 988 acres Preserves dunes, golden sand beaches, and pine 27 Andrae State Sheboygan 1928 Michigan, (400 ha) woodland. Park Black River Lake 343 acres Lake Adjoins a 3,209-acre (1,299 ha) glacial lake in 28 Kegonsa Dane 1962 (139 ha) Kegonsa rural Dane County. State Park 1,062 Features forest, prairie, and a 285-foot (87 m) Lake Wissota Lake 29 Chippewa acres 1962 swimming beach on a reservoir of the Chippewa State Park Wissota (430 ha) River (Wisconsin). Lakeshore 22 acres Lake Provides urban green space on Milwaukee's 30 Milwaukee 1998 State Park (8.9 ha) Michigan lakefront. Menominee River State 6,563 Protects several miles of the Menominee River in Menominee 31 Park and Marinette acres 2010 conjunction with Michigan's Menominee River River Recreation (2,656 ha) State Recreation Area. Area Merrick State 320 acres Mississippi Offers fishing and boating on quiet backwaters of 32 Buffalo 1932 Park (130 ha) River the Mississippi. 1,337 Mill Bluff Monroe and Contains unusual steep sandstone bluffs that 33 acres 1936 None State Park Juneau formed as islands in Glacial Lake Wisconsin. (541 ha) Surrounds a reservoir whose wooded shores and 2,179 Mirror Lake 50-foot (15 m) cliffs often keep the water mirror- 34 Sauk acres 1962 Mirror Lake State Park smooth. The Seth Peterson Cottage designed by (882 ha) Frank Lloyd Wright is on the NRHP. Natural Contains the largest natural arch in the state and 530 acres 35 Bridge State Sauk 1972 None an NRHP-listed rock shelter once used by Paleo- (210 ha) Park Indians. Encompasses a 500-foot (200 m) river bluff that Nelson 756 acres Mississippi was once part of the estate of Nelson Dewey, 36 Dewey State Grant 1935 (306 ha) River Wisconsin's first governor. Stonefield estate is on Park the NRHP. New Glarus 431 acres 37 Woods State Green 1934 None Preserves mature forest and restored prairie. (174 ha) Park 2,373 Newport Lake Comprises Wisconsin's only wilderness- 38 Door acres 1964 State Park Michigan designated park. (960 ha) 1,476 Contains 165-foot (50 m) Big Manitou Falls, the Pattison State 39 Douglas acres 1920 Black River highest waterfall in Wisconsin and the fourth- Park (597 ha) highest east of the Rocky Mountains. Contains a golf course, summer theater, group 3,776 Peninsula camps, and lighthouse on nearly 7 miles (11 km) 40 Door acres 1909 Green Bay State Park of shoreline on the Door Peninsula. The 1868 (1,528 ha) Eagle Bluff Lighthouse is on the NRHP. Mississippi 1,270 Features 500-foot-high (200 m) bluffs bearing Perrot State and 41 Trempealeau acres 1918 rare goat prairie communities on their Park Trempealeau (510 ha) southwestern faces. Rivers 1,225 Potawatomi Sturgeon Protects steep-to-sheer shoreline on the Door 42 Door acres 1928 State Park Bay Peninsula. (496 ha) 1,528 Rib Mountain Straddles 1,924-foot (586 m) Rib Mountain, one 43 Marathon acres 1927 None State Park of the highest points in Wisconsin. (618 ha) Richard Bong Supports recreational activities, including ATVs, 4,515 State Several falconry, hunting and sled dog training, and model 44 Kenosha acres 1963 Recreation small lakes aircraft on the site of the abortive R.I. Bong Air (1,827 ha) Area Force Base. Roche-a-Cri 604 acres Contains a 300-foot (91 m) outcropping bearing 45 Adams 1948 None State Park (244 ha) the NRHP-listed Roche-a-Cri Petroglyphs. Encompasses most of vehicle-free Rock Island, accessed by two ferry rides at the tip of the Door Rock Island 912 acres Lake 46 Door 1965 Peninsula. Four listings are on the NRHP, State Park (369 ha) Michigan including the 1836 Pottawatomie Lighthouse and inventor Chester Thordarson's 20th-century estate. Preserves sandstone outcroppings similar to the Rocky Arbor 225 acres 47 Juneau 1932 nearby Dells of the Wisconsin River along one of State Park (91 ha) the river's former channels. 2,780 Straight Lake Straight In development around a lake surrounded by 48 Polk acres 2002 State Park Lake mature forest and glacial landforms. (1,130 ha) Interprets a reconstructed shot tower where lead Tower Hill 77 acres Wisconsin 49 Iowa 1922 shot was manufactured 1832–1860. The tower is State Park (31 ha) River on the NRHP. Whitefish Lake Protects dunes that formed across the mouth of a 863 acres 50 Dunes State Door 1967 Michigan, bay. A district of eight habitation sites dating from (349 ha) Park Clark Lake 100 BCE to 1800 CE are on the NRHP. Wildcat 3,643 Kickapoo Comprises a steep ridge overlooking the Kickapoo 51 Mountain Vernon acres 1948 River Valley. State Park (1,474 ha) 2,891 Willow River Willow Contains a waterfall in a sandstone gorge and a 52 St. Croix acres 1967 State Park River 172-acre (70 ha) lake. (1,170 ha) Occupies a 500-foot-high (150 m) bluff Mississippi 2,628 overlooking the confluence of the Wisconsin and Wyalusing and 53 Grant acres 1917 Mississippi Rivers. The park's hardwood forest is State Park Wisconsin (1,064 ha) a National Natural Landmark and a district of Rivers prehistoric mounds is on the NRHP. Yellowstone 968 acres Yellowstone Surrounds a 455-acre (184 ha) reservoir built in 54 Lake State Lafayette 1970 (392 ha) Lake the lake-poor Driftless Area. Park

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