A New Region to Explore

I'd heard that Wildcat Mountain State Park offered a unique camping experience here in Wisconsin. It's situated in the "Driftless Area," which means it wasn't bulldozed flat by glaciers during the ice ages. This has left the landscape shaped by water cutting through bedrock for thousands of years. It's full of serpentine valleys with winding streams, and sharp ridge lines. It's definitely unique, and worth seeing.The weekend we traveled was a hot, humid late summer weekend. We'd hoped to leave early on a Saturday but heavy rainfall caused us to delay our drive. As I sat in our garage the temperature reached into the 90's, and the humidity made me wish I had gills. Even the wooden floors of our back porch were sweating. I'll not lie, I seriously considered canceling the trip and staying in the air conditioned house for the weekend.In the end though we chose to go. All we had to do was wheel our new jeep trailer out of the garage, where it had sat all loaded and ready to roll, connect it to the jeep, buckle ourselves in, and leave. Having that trailer really changed things, where before the jeep would have been crowded with both us and our gear, now it all gets pulled behind us, leaving us plenty of room.Instead of heading directly to the park we wound our way through the Driftless Area, taking back roads. While is added a little extra time, it was very interesting to see how beautiful this area of Wisconsin really is.

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