A friend told me about this small county park, located 5 miles north of Richland Center. Said you could camp there. So on the way up to LaCrosse with my nephew Jeremy, we detoured away from Highway 14 to look at it. It’s a small’ish park, with a few larger grassy fields, an outhouse, a covered picnic table structure. The salient feature of this park is a narrow (< 100 yard) rocky ridge that runs north and south, for a mile or so. It’s like the Great Wall of China. The Pine River, barely a stream here, cuts under it at one point, causing this stone wall to form a “bridge” of sorts over the water.
There’s a general store at the entrance, and it’s old. We checked into the particulars of camping. $5.29/night, it goes without saying that there’s no electricity. When I asked where the designated camping spots were, the gal brightly informed that “anywhere you can stick your camper or tent” is just fine. The official Richland County web site says “six camping spots”, but if everyone cooperated and crammed in, you could probably put several dozen RV’s in there.
Aside from the price, the appeal of this site is that it’s situated in what is hoped to be hundreds of miles of new territory that’s good for bicycling. Then of course, there’s the tremendous nightlife potential of Richland Center itself.
Here’s the pictures:
