Features
Birding · Fall Colors · Wildflowers · Wildlife
This park is open from 6AM to 11PM year-round. A Wisconsin State Park System vehicle admission sticker is required on all motor vehicles stopping in state parks, forests and recreation areas. These can be purchased online or at individual properties via drive-up window service, electronic sales kiosks or self-registration stations.
Description
The Havenridge Nature Trail is the longest single trail in this state park. It is wide and easy to follow, with maps at each major trail intersection.
Going clockwise from a parking area at a picnic kiosk along County Road NN, the trail enters a lush forest before emerging, briefly, into an area of restored prairie. Then it goes back into a forest - past a junction with the Walnut Trail - and continues under a canopy dominated by Black Walnut and Pignut Hickory trees. The Hickory trees are readily identified by their shaggy bark.
Except for another brief escape into the open along a patch of prairie, the trail remains under the forest canopy as it turns north, passes another junction with the Walnut Trail, crosses County Road NN again, and heads into the northern half of the park.
Up here, the Havenridge Natural Trail passes junctions with the Fox and Vista Trails before turning south, past another junction with the Fox Trail, to end at a junction with the Great Oak Trail. Follow the Basswood Nature Trail to return to the parking lot on County Road NN.
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