Blue Mound State Park
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Blue Mound State Park is about 25 miles west of Madison, on top of the highest point in southern Wisconsin, a big wooded hill above the farmland. It has more than 20 miles of trails for hiking, mountain biking, and cross-country skiing, including singletrack that the Capital Off Road Pathfinders built and keep up with the DNR, and it connects to the Military Ridge State Trail. I spent the early afternoon of November 3, 2021, there, a bright fall day with big white clouds, on my way to my real goals for the trip, Wyalusing State Park that afternoon and Nelson Dewey State Park the next morning. I walked through woods still yellow with the last of the leaves and out across the prairie on the open slopes, and stopped at the Friends Shelter, a gathering center paid for by the Friends of Blue Mound State Park, state stewardship funds, and many other donors.
Photos from Blue Mound State Park
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Woods still yellow in early November.
The Friends Shelter.
The park road along the prairie.