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Topographic Map of Sandhill Station State Campground – Lake Mills, Wisconsin
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Mud Lake, Sandhill Station State Campground – Lake Mills, Wisconsin
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Sandhill Station State Campground Site 6 – Lake Mills, Wisconsin
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Video of Lake Kegonsa State Park Campground- Stoughton, Wisconsin
Lake Kegonsa State Park, established in 1962, is a 342 acre park on the shores of a 3,200 acre lake. The lake has excellent fishing for northerns and panfish. The lake was formed from glacial debris that dammed parts of what is believed to be an old river valley called the “Ancient Wisconsin River”. About 12,000 years ago the 4-Lakes of the Madison Area were formed: Lakes Mendota, Monona, Waubesa, and Kegonsa. Lake Kegonsa, from the Ho-Chunk word meaning “Lakes of Many Fishes”, was referred to by early settlers as “First Lake”. A hiking trail near the family campground leads to a few effigy mounds built by Woodland Indians. There are 80 family campsites, three group campsites, two picnic shelters, fishing pier, boat launch, swimming beach, and a pet swim area. This video includes the family campground. Music by Malignant Choir and Maury Smith, copyright 2008. Slideshow and photographs copright 2008, Creative Juice LLC.
Camping at Lake Kegonsa State Park
Blog entries for Lake Kegonsa State Park
Lake Kegonsa State Park Campgrounds
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West Side of Silver Mound – Hixton, Wisconsin
From the Silver Mound Historic marker erected 1977: This large, isolated hill is a famous site where prehistoric Indians gathered to quarry a particularly attractive quartzite for the manufacture of chipped stone tools. Several aboriginal quarries are scattered along the rimrock of this mound. Thousands of tons of waste rock from these pits indicated that quarrying was carried on selectively over many centuries. Fields surrounding this mound are littered with quartzite fragments and flakes which accumulated during the process of making and shaping trade blanks for transportation to out lying areas. Stone spear-points, knives, and scapers made from this colorful material have a wide distribution throughout Wisconsin and portions of nearby states. It is known that the earliest Indians who migrated into the midwest, perhaps 10-12,000 years ago, made many spearpoints and knives from rock quarried here; thus this site is one of Wisconsin’s oldest archeological monuments. History relates that the first white explorers mistakenly thought that the Indians were mining silver. Hence the name “Silver Mound.”
Silver Mound Historic Marker from the Dictionary of Wisconsin History
Silver Mound Archaeological Site
Weather forecast for Hixton, Wisconsin vicinity
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East Side of Silver Mound – Hixton, Wisconsin
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Sky at Twilight from East Tower, Blue Mound State Park – Blue Mounds, Wisconsin
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Sunset from West Observation Tower, Blue Mound State Park – Blue Mounds, Wisconsin
