Started last week with Copper Culture State Park for three reasons.
1. No sticker required. (waiting until January for my sticker, since they are only good for a calendar year)
2. No hunting allowed. (don't want to get shot on opening weekend of deer hunting)
3. Close to home. (1 hour away)
Copper Culture SP. It is a burial ground for the oldest metal age society in Wisconsin. (7500 years ago!). Discovered in the 1950s by a 13 yo boy messing around at the local gravel quarry. The sign mis-states the name as Copper Culture Mounds SP (behind my fat head:)). Another sign explains that there are no mounds and there never was... it was just a sign maker's mistake! Oops!
The trails lead down to the Oconto River... Looks like a good fishing hole.
This is right ON the trail! Must be a biotch to walk the trail in summer... thankfully they were dormant today.
The house (now museum) was built in the 1920s. The Subaru that has seen MANY states in the last 2 years makes an appearance.
BEWARE!!! Read the sign. The "brown scars" on your skin can last for a few YEARS! Yikes!So this was a small park that was a good start. Just a way to get my feet wet. Not sure where I am going next, but you can be sure that I will make a post about it.
Mike
