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Address: Carson Park Dr, Eau Claire, WI 54701
Surrounded by the crescent-shaped Half Moon Lake, Carson Park is one of the Eau Claire area's most popular places to "get away from it all," boasting lakeside picnic shelters, water access, hiking trails, and quiet little nooks with nice views. The park is also a hub for active pursuits, boasting bike trails, volleyball courts, softball diamonds,...
Chippewa River Valley Trail System
Category: Best Attractions & Activities - Eau Claire Attractions & Activities
Address: Eau Claire, WI
Follow the course of the Chippewa River as it flows through the heart Eau Claire thanks to this multi-purpose trail network, which is open to cross-country skiers, bikers, in-line skaters, hikers, and joggers. North of Eau Claire, the Old Abe State Trail, a paved trail set in an old railroad grade, leads from Cornell to Chippewa Falls. Meanwhile,...
Category: Best Attractions & Activities - Eau Claire Attractions & Activities
Address: 1204 Carson Park Dr, Carson Park, Eau Claire, WI 54702
Learn about the Chippewa Valley's indigenous people (Ojibwe) and its first European homesteaders at this award-winning facility. Prize exhibits include the circa-1860 Anderson Log House that once stood some 15 miles outside of modern eau Claire, the historic Sunnyview School (1882), a working old-fashioned ice-cream parlor, and a unique collection...
Category: Best Attractions & Activities - Eau Claire Attractions & Activities
Address: 505 W Grand Ave, Chippewa Falls, WI 54729
Listed on the National Register of Historic places, Chippewa Falls' Cook-Rutledge Mansion stands as one of the state's best remaining examples of High Victorian-Italianate architecture. The home, which was completed in 1873, has been occupied by a veritable who's who of Chippewa Valley high society, including Wisconsin Lieutenant Governor James...
Category: Best Attractions & Activities - Eau Claire Attractions & Activities
Address: E 18855 County V, Augusta, WI 54722
Take a step back into a bygone era at this Chippewa Valley historic site, located some three miles north of Highway 27. Built in the 1860s using hand-hewed timbers and wooden pegs, the 5-story mill operated for nearly 100 years before being retired, grinding grain into flour and feed for farmers from far and wide. Today, the mill serves as a...
Empire in the Pine Lumber Museum
Category: Best Attractions & Activities - Eau Claire Attractions & Activities
Address: E4541 County Hwy C, Menomonie, WI 54751
Gain some insight into Wisconsin's first great industry – lumbering – at this museum located in the rural community of Downville. Two levels of exhibits include everything from blacksmith tools and early farm machinery to 19th century logging tools and artifacts from Knapp, Stout & Company (at one time, the nation's largest white pine lumber...
Jakob Leinenjugel Brewing Company
Category: Best Attractions & Activities - Eau Claire Attractions & Activities
Address: 1 Jefferson Ave, Chippewa Falls, WI 54729
The seventh-oldest working brewery in the United States, Leinenkugel has been brewing its tasty quaffs since 1867. Tour the brewery for free and find out why Jacob Leinenkugel's first brew, the Original Lager, has been a Northwoods favorite for nearly five generations. Guided tours begin and end in the Lenie Lodge Gift Shop, where visitors can...
Category: Best Attractions & Activities - Eau Claire Attractions & Activities
Address: 1110 Carson Park Dr, Carson Park, Eau Claire, WI 54702
Driving through Carson Park, sightseers would be hard-pressed to miss this unique complex thanks to the life-size statues of legendary lumberman Paul Bunyan and Babe, the blue ox, standing guard at the entrance. A variety of family-friendly exhibits and activities are available, from a replica of an 1890s logging camp (complete with blacksmith...
Category: Best Attractions & Activities - Eau Claire Attractions & Activities
Address: 517 S Farwell St, Eau Claire, WI 54701
Maintained by the Chippewa Valley Museum, this cozy home was built by Herman and Augusta Schlegelmilch in 1871, the year before Eau Claire was incorporated as a city. In those days, most of the buildings in Eau Claire were made of wood, and fires frequently ravaged the young community. One blaze even claimed the Schlegelmilch's hardware store....
Category: Best Attractions & Activities - Eau Claire Attractions & Activities
Address: US Hwy 53, Eau Claire, WI 54701
This historic route, once the main route west for motorists of the first half of the 20th century, stretches "from Plymouth Rock to the Puget Sound." Hearken back to the "Golden Age of Motoring" as the Wisconsin leg of the Yellowstone Trail leads from Kenosha to Hudson, along the way passing through population centers like Milwaukee, Oshkosh, and...
