Grand Valley Campground

When you’re camping at Grand Valley Campground, you’ll find that there are multiple natural areas and state parks within an hour’s drive. You can begin your vacation with a visit to Mirror Lake State Park. The 2,200-acre park is made up of beautiful pine and oak forests, prairie, and agricultural lands. Naturally, hiking and biking are popular activities, and the park offers up to 19 miles of trails. As well as searching for wildflowers in the forest, you can also get active with swimming, canoeing, or kayaking on the lake. During the winter season, the park remains open, so remember to pack your cross-country skis and snowshoes. Throughout the rest of the year, Mirror Lake State Park is the perfect spot for a lakeside picnic or BBQ. One of the most visited state parks in Wisconsin is Devils Lake State Park, located near Baraboo. The park receives around three million visitors each year and offers a good selection of recreational activities and useful facilities. Within the park, you can swim from two sandy beaches and freshen up in the bathhouses, or launch a non-motorized boat from either of the two boat launch sites. The lake is a popular place for scuba diving, and there are canoe and kayak rentals available from spring to fall. As well as water sports, the park is set up for rock climbing, hiking, and biking with over 25 miles of trails. During the wintertime, you can pick up a pair of snowshoes from the park’s nature center. Want to delve into Wisconsin’s Native American roots? Roche-a-Cri State Park is home to the only Native American rock art site in the state. Here you can walk, snowshoe, or cross-country ski on five miles of trails and discover the interpretive exhibition of Native American pictographs and petroglyphs. The ancient artworks depict various motifs, including local gods and birds. You can also see more recent carvings which date back to the 19th and 20th centuries. The park is an excellent spot for birdwatching too; snowy owl, northern shoveler, and bobolink are just some of the species that you can see when you take a campervan rental to Roche-a-Cri State Park.