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    Hittin’ the Trail: Day Hiking Barron County, Wisconsin: Hittin' the Trail, #4
    Hittin’ the Trail: Day Hiking Barron County, Wisconsin: Hittin' the Trail, #4
    Hittin’ the Trail: Day Hiking Barron County, Wisconsin: Hittin' the Trail, #4
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    Hittin’ the Trail: Day Hiking Barron County, Wisconsin: Hittin' the Trail, #4

    By Rob Bignell

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    Imagine a place of more than a hundred glacial lakes and trout streams, full of rustic charm and beauty in its farms and villages, all where ancient hills that formed 1.7 billion years ago stand as a backdrop. The place is real: It's called Barron County, Wisconsin.

    Now comes the only complete guide to the county's great day hiking trails: "Hittin' the Trail: Day Hiking Barron County, Wisconsin." With one tap of the screen, you can:
    >>Plan a day of fun family-friendly activities
    >>Learn the best places for walking the Ice Age National Scenic Trail
    >>Discover the National Park Service's only scenic riverway
    >>Find directions, parking lots and more!

    With the "Hittin' the Trail" ebooks, you'll never need another hiking guide to any of your favorite destinations. We'll see you on the trail!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRob Bignell
    Release dateJul 2, 2013
    ISBN9780989672306
    Hittin’ the Trail: Day Hiking Barron County, Wisconsin: Hittin' the Trail, #4
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    Rob Bignell

    Rob Bignell is the owner and sole editor at Inventing Reality Editing Service, which meets the editing and proofreading needs of writers both new and published. During the past five years, he's helped more than a hundred novelists, poets and nonfiction authors obtain their publishing dreams. Several of his short stories in the literary and science fiction genres have been published, and he is the author of the popular and highly acclaimed nonfiction "Hikes with Tykes," "Headin' to the Cabin," and "Hittin' the Trail" book series, the novel "Windmill", and the poetry collection "Love Letters to Sophie's Mom". For more than two decades, he worked as an award-winning journalist, with half of those years spent as an editor. In addition, for seven years he served as an English teacher or a community college journalism instructor. He holds a Master's degree in English and a Bachelor's degree in journalism and English. He and his son live in west-central Wisconsin and are active in boys basketball and Cub Scouts.

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      Hittin’ the Trail - Rob Bignell

      Hittin’ the Trail: Day Hiking Barron County, Wisconsin

      By Rob Bignell

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      HITTIN’ THE TRAIL: DAY HIKING BARRON COUNTY, WISCONSIN

      Copyright Rob Bignell, 2013

      All rights reserved. Except for brief passages quoted in newspaper, magazine, radio, television or online reviews, no portion of this book may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or information storage or retrieval system, without the prior written permission of the author.

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      Atiswinic Press

      Ojai, Calif. 93023

      hikeswithtykes.com/hittinthetrail_home.html

      ISBN 978-0-9896723-0-6

      Cover design by Rob Bignell

      Cover photo of American robin (Wisconsin’s state bird) in Barron County

      Manufactured in the United States of America

      First printing July 2013

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      Dedication

      In memory of Mark Gunnufson (I’ll see you, buddy, when St. Peter calls me to formation.) and for Kieran (Our adventure has only just begun!)

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      Table of Contents

      Introduction

      Communities

      Attractions

      Across the Border

      How to Get There

      When to Visit

      Maps

      Red Cedar River Country

      Wild Rivers Trail segment

      Cedar Side Trail segment

      Moose Ear Creek Trail

      Other Area Trails

      Northwest Lake Country

      Cattail State Trail

      Other Area Trails

      Neighboring Counties

      Washburn County

      Ice Age National Scenic Trail segment

      Bear Trail

      Tuscobia Trail segment

      Other Washburn County Trails

      Polk County

      Ice Age National Scenic Trail segment

      Other Polk County Trails

      Rusk County

      Blue Hills West Trail segment

      Chippewa County

      Dunn County

      Best Trails Lists

      Bonus Section: Day Hiking Primer

      Selecting a Trail

      Clothing

      Equipment

      Navigational Tools

      Food and Water

      First-aid Kit

      Hiking with Children: Attitude Adjustment

      Family Dog

      Rules of the Trail

      Trail Dangers

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      Introduction

      Imagine a place of more than a hundred glacial lakes and trout streams, full of rustic charm and beauty in its farms and villages, all where ancient hills that formed 1.7 billion year ago stand as a backdrop. If living in Wisconsin, Minnesota, northern Illinois or eastern Iowa, such a place is within only a few hours’ drive. It’s called Barron County, Wisconsin.

      Located northeast of Minneapolis-St. Paul, for many Barron County marks the edge of Wisconsin’s Northwoods. Geographically, most of the county sits in Wisconsin’s central plain, a fairly flat region that forms a V across the state. Glaciers during the last ice age some 12,000 years ago flattened the county’s terrain, with chunks of the melting ice left behind to form many of the lakes in the county’s northwest and eastern sides.

      On the county’s northeastern edge is a small section of the Blue Hills, made of sediment that settled at the bottom of river deltas and a shallow ocean some 1.7 billion years ago. The erosion-resistant quartzite making the hills rises about 600 feet above the landscape and for those living nearby forms a beautiful panorama reminiscent of the Great Smoky Mountains.

      East Coast Americans first came to what is now Barron County in the early 1800s and spent decades logging off the great woodlands that covered this section of Wisconsin. Migrants from Yankee states and European countries then divided the clear land into farmsteads. In 1865, Dallas County was formed, covering what is now the political boundaries of Barron County. In 1869, residents renamed it Barron in honor of a state judge. Since the mid-1900s, tourism increasingly has grown in economic importance for its once largely agriculture villages.

      Communities

      The county generally can be divided into three distinct regions: Red Cedar River County, Northwest Lake Country, and the Central Farm Country.

      Perhaps the most well-known communities and lakes are those making up the Red Cedar River Country, which consists the eastern third of the county, or essentially everything east of U.S. Hwy. 53. Red Cedar Lake sits in the county’s northeast corner, and from

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