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The Devil’s Bathtub at Cave Point County Park Photograph: Courtesy Door County Kayak Tours ...

Hosts John Kessler and Amy Cavanaugh dive into “The Best New Restaurants” list, discuss what didn’t make the cut, and ...

The Grace A. Channon, which sank in 1877 near Milwaukee Photograph: Becky Kagan Schott ...

At the southeast tip of the Driftless Area, a rugged region in the upper Mississippi River basin that was spared glacial flattening, Galena is defined by undulating hills and river valleys ...

About 45 minutes northeast of Champaign lies the Middle Fork River Forest Preserve, the only designated International Dark Sky Park in Illinois. Protected from light pollution, the preserve’s ...

While Sheboygan is often billed as the Malibu of the Midwest, you’ll find equally good waves more consistently on the other side of Lake Michigan. In St. Joseph, just north of Harbor Country ...

Devil’s Lake State Park in Wisconsin might be the most popular nearby rock-climbing destination, but don’t sleep on the 2,430-acre Ferne Clyffe State Park in southern Illinois, half an hour ...

There are few better places to learn to kayak rapids than Wausau Whitewater Park. It spans a third of a mile of the Wisconsin River and benefits from a dam-controlled channel in downtown Wausau ...

Viroqua sits in the heart of the Driftless Area, where clear, cold freshwater filters through unglaciated limestone and sandstone, producing abundant spring creeks. “That provides extremely good ...

Nestled on Lake Superior’s coastline, Duluth offers more than 90 miles of bike trails. That’s impressive enough, but what really sets it apart is its designation by the International Mountain ...