Day Hiking Trails: Great trails await Cameron/Chetek visitors

Monday, May 27, 2013

Great trails await Cameron/Chetek visitors

Moose Ear Creek

Visitors to the Cameron and Chetek, Wis., area will find a number of good day hiking trails to explore this summer. Among them:
g Chetek Area County Forest – On 11th Avenue, take the second gated jeep trail heading west to a fire tower. The hike is about 0.6 miles round trip.
g Moose Ear Creek/Sumner Area County Forest – On U.S. Hwy. 8, take the gated jeep trail immediately west of Moose Ear Creek. Turn left at the first trail junction, paralleling the stream; turn back at the next junction as angling away from the waterway for a 1.5-mile round trip.
g Pioneer Village Museum – Take a walk back through time at the Barron County Historical Society’s living history museum. Events usually are scheduled on weekends; admission is charged.
g Veterans Memorial Park trails – Southeast of town, short trails run through a wooded area alongside Prairie Lake. The park, which includes several public amenities, stretches across 160 acres.

Read more about day hiking Barron County in my Hittin’ the Trail: Day Barron County, Wisconsin guidebook.

Meet the Author

My name is Rob Bignell. I'm a long-time hiker, journalist and editor. My son Kieran and I have been hiking together for the past decade. Before Kieran, I taught middle school students in New Mexico and Wisconsin, served as an infantryman in the Army National Guard, and worked in newspapers. I've won several journalism awards, from editorial writing to sports reporting. In 2001, The Prescott Journal, which I served as managing editor of, was named Wisconsin’s Weekly Newspaper of the Year. Currently I own and operate an online editing business, Inventing Reality Editing Service. After spending several years in Southern California, my son and I now live in Wisconsin on the scenic Red Cedar River.