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Visitors to Barron County can enjoy a number of major recreational areas, many of which contain great day hiking trails. Among the hikes are former railroad lines turned into wooded walking paths and the Ice Age National Scenic Trail.
Chapel Gorge Trail
Wisconsin River State Natural Area
Day hikers can head to a quiet beach in the gorge that makes up the Wisconsin Dells. The Chapel Gorge Trail runs 2 miles through what may be Wisconsin’s most visited state natural area. Neighboring Wisconsin Dells is a major tourist destination, and the popular boat rides into the Dells of the Wisconsin River State Natural Area always generate pictures of the river gorge and its fantastical slot canyons, particularly Witches Gulch.
Crystal Cave
Day hikers can explore Wisconsin’s longest cave near the village of Spring Valley. The Crystal Cave tour runs about 0.5-miles round trip through 1,300 feet of passageways.
Moccasin Nature Trail
Natural Bridge State Park
Day hikers can see Wisconsin’s largest natural arch on the Indian Moccasin Nature Trail. The bridge measures 35 feet high with the opening in the arch 25 feet wide and 15 feet high.The trail in Natural Bridge State Park runs a third of a mile round trip.
Washburn County trails
Imagine a place where sun-dappled paths run alongside murmuring rivers, where trails retrace former rail lines past historic depots, where real carnivorous plants line your walking route, where a mile-high glacier shaped the hummocky forests around you, where any turn of the corner might reveal a majestic white-tailed buck or a tiny young porcupine sunning itself upon a rock, where bald eagles and osprey regally circle and swoop high above the trees. The place is real: It’s called Washburn County.
Learn about trail guidebooks available in the Hittin’ the Trail series.
