Wisconsin Travel Guide Information about Wisconsin

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As many cows as humans call Wisconsin home. About four million of each eat to their hearts' content in this rich, rolling farmland, which has a higher proportion of overweight people than any other state. However, America's self-proclaimed ''Dairyland'' is more than just one giant pasture. Beyond the massive red barns and silvery silos lie endless pine forests, some 15,000 sky-blue lakes, postcard-pretty valleys and dramatic bluffs. Your Ad Here Wisconsin, whose Ojibway name means ''gathering of the waters,'' is bordered by Lake Michigan to the east, Lake Superior in the north and, to the west, the Mississippi and St Croix rivers. Only the southern boundary, with Illinois, is dry. The history of Wisconsin exemplifies the standard formula for westward expansion. Seventeenth-century French and British explorers began by trading with the Native Americans and soon ousted them from their land. The European settlers who followed - predominantly Germans, Scandinavians and Poles - tended to be liberal and progressive; such major national social programs as labor laws for women and children, assistance for the elderly and the disabled, and unemployment compensation were rooted here. On the downside, Sen. Joseph McCarthy, the infamous 1950s witch-hunter, was born in Grand Chute, former headquarters of the right-wing John Birch Society. Destinations by City in Wisconsin Abbotsford Antigo Appleton Arkdale Ashland Baileys Harbor Baldwin Baraboo Beaver Dam Belmont Beloit Berlin Black River Falls Brookfield Brown Deer Burlington Cameron Chetek Chilton Chippewa Falls Columbus Crandon Crivitz Cumberland De Forest De Pere Delafield Delavan Dodgeville Eagle River East Troy Eau Claire Edgerton Egg Harbor Elkhart Lake Elkhorn Ephraim Fitchburg Fond Du Lac Fontana Fort Atkinson Germantown Glendale Grafton Grand Chute Green Bay Green Lake Hartford Hayward Hillsboro Hudson Hurley Jackson Janesville Jefferson Johnson Creek Kaukauna Kenosha Kewaunee Kimberly Kohler La Crosse Ladysmith Lake Geneva Lake Mills Lake Wissota Lakewood Lancaster Little Chute Lodi Lomira Luck Madison Manitowoc Marinette Marshfield Mauston Mayville Medford Menomonie Mequon Merrill Middleton Milwaukee Mineral Point Minocqua Mishicot Monona Monroe Mosinee Mount Horeb Mukwonago Neenah Neillsville New Berlin New Lisbon New London New Richmond Oak Creek Oconomowoc Oconto Omro Onalaska Osceola Oshkosh Park Falls Pembine Pewaukee Phillips Platteville Pleasant Prairie Plover Plymouth Portage Prairie Du Chien Racine Reedsburg Rhinelander Rice Lake Richland Center Ripon River Falls Rothschild Saint Germain Sauk City Saukville Schofield Shawano Sheboygan Falls Sheboygan Shell Lake Siren Sister Bay Solon Springs Sparta Spooner Stanley Stevens Point Stoughton Sturgeon Bay Sturgeon Sturtevant Sun Prairie Superior Thorp Three Lakes Tomah Tomahawk Two Rivers Verona Warrens Washburn Waterford Watertown Waukesha Waunakee Waupaca Wausau Wautoma Wauwatosa West Allis West Bend West Salem Westfield Weston Whitewater Windsor Wisconsin Dells Wisconsin Rapids Wittenberg Woodville Wisconsin today is best known for its liquids. The milk from all those cattle yields cheeses of all kinds, while the beer, as the song says, is what made Milwaukee famous. Sparkling Madison apart, Wisconsin's other cities - LaCrosse, Green Bay, Oshkosh - can veer toward the dull side, but they're also clean, safe and amiable. The smaller towns can be distinctive and charming. Your Ad Here You'll be hard put to explore Wisconsin's remote north, or key locales like the Door County peninsula, without a vehicle. Public transportation is better in the south. Milwaukee and, to a lesser extent, Madison are hubs for Greyhound and Amtrak. Five trains daily connect Milwaukee and Chicago, a ninety-minute journey, while one crosses the state in the south en route for Seattle, via Columbus (near Madison), Portage, Wisconsin Dells, Tomah and LaCrosse.

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