State Parks of Wisconsin 



pleasure resort of the highest order. The Michigan State Park at 

 Mackinac Island is not one whit more attractive than the proposed 

 Door County park might easily be. Yet the Mackinac Island Park, 

 comprising but a thousand acres, is now valued at two million dollars 

 and is visited annually by two hundred thousand persons. Would 

 it not be worth while for Wisconsin to have a State Park with such 

 a record and to secure such a tangible return? 



In the southwestern corner of the State, near the old historic city 

 of Prairie du Chien, is the site of the proposed Grant County State 

 Park on the Mississippi River. It is situated close to Wyalusing, 

 south of the Wisconsin River and east of the Mississippi. Most of 

 the property is on a ridge five hundred feet above the river. It appears 

 to be the best Wisconsin site on the Mississippi for park purposes be- 

 cause of its large and well preserved groves of native trees and be- 

 cause the land required to form an accessible park is practically in the 

 possession of one man. Mr. Robert Glenn, the owner of the prop- 

 erty, has held it intact for years in the firm belief that it would some 

 day become a public park. He is unselfishly interested in the project 

 and has shown himself ready to cooperate with the Board. The 

 total area is about 2,720 acres, 1 ,720 of high land on the ridge and 

 about 1 ,000 west of the railroad tracks, practically level with the 

 river. The high land alone could be bought for about $43,000 — 

 an average of $25 an acre ; the low land for less — substantially the 



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