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Photos: Wisconsin's oldest state park, Interstate State Park near St. Croix Falls
Interstate State Park near St. Croix Falls was established in 1900 along the St. Croix River.
Matthew Densow, property supervisor at Interstate State Park near St. Croix Falls, checks out an owl house in the Ice Age Interpretive Center. The park's wildlife includes deer, racoon, eagle, osprey, beaver, owls and the occasional bear. Densow also supervises Straight Lake State Park in nearby Luck.
Interstate State Park near St. Croix Falls was established in 1900 along the St. Croix River.
A popular spot at Interstate State Park, especially on hot days, is Lake O' the Dalles. The 25-acre lake includes a sandy beach and a beach house built with stone quarried from the park and constructed by the Civilian Conservation Corps in the 1930s.
The main road leading into the heart of Interstate State Park provides breathtaking views of the St. Croix River Valley. The park, just south of St. Croix Falls in northwestern Wisconsin, was established in 1900 and at 125 years is the oldest in the state park system.
Interstate State Park near St. Croix Falls was established in 1900 along the St. Croix River but 14 years earlier was home to a massive log jam.
Interstate State Park near St. Croix Falls was established in 1900 along the St. Croix River but also has a 25-acre lake.
Interstate State Park near St. Croix Falls was established in 1900 along the St. Croix River and includes remnants from a former park shelter constructed in the 1930s by the Civilian Conservation Corps.
Michael Chiappone, 25, a geology student pursuing his doctorate at the University of Minnesota, spent an early June evening making sketches of the river bottoms, noting the flows and a nearby shallow stretch that included a rocky island. Part of his work is studying how bones can move in a river before becoming buried and fossilized.
The Pothole Trail is highlighted by its signature holes made 12,000 years ago by swirling waters and grinding stones when glaciers receded. A tour boat can be seen in the background on the Minnesota side of the St. Croix River.
Interstate State Park near St. Croix Falls was established in 1900 along the St. Croix River.
Interstate State Park has 82 campsites, including this site in the park's south campground that was occupied last month by Kevin and Tina Sparth of Menomonie. They used their Chevy Silverado to bring a camper trailer, kayaks and bikes for their six-night stay at the 1,300-acre park. "We brought it all this weekend," said Kevin Sparth, who teaches marketing at UW-Stout. "This is as big as we go."
Interstate State Park near St. Croix Falls was established in 1900 along the St. Croix River.
This is the view from the Pothole Trail of the St. Croix River and a bluff on the Minnesota side of the river.
An interpretive sign on the Silverbrook Trail at Interstate State Park details the history of the 6,000-square-foot Silberbrook Mansion, built in 1895 as a summer home. In 1956 the 200 acre estate was purchased by James and Anna Belle Rideaux, business owners, civil rights activists, socialites and residents of Rondo, a thriving Black neighborhood in St. Paul, Minnesota. The Rideauxes transformed the mansion into the St. Croix Valley Country Club to provide Rondo residents a place to socialize outside of the city. The club shuttered in 1962 and the property purchased by the state in 1970 to expand the park.
Climbing guide Mason Henke, right, assists Devin Wade as she reaches the top of a sheer cliff above the St. Croix River and along the Pothole Trail at Interstate State Park. The basalt rock, formed over 1 billion years ago, provides ample climbing and bouldering opportunities.
A fox snake slithers its way across the sandy shoreline of the St. Croix River at Interstate State Park.
Photos of a historic log jam in 1886 on the St. Croix River are display in the Ice Age Interpretive Center at Interstate State Park.
Climbing guide Mason Henke instructs Devin Wade as she makes her way up a sheer cliff wall at Interstate State Park.
One of the many potholes formed during the receding glaciers 12,000 years ago is a prominent feature of the Pothole Trail at Interstate State Park. A tour boat on the Minnesota side of the St. Croix River can be seen in the background.
