Just south of Phillips in the Northwoods, a retired lumberjack embedded glass and mirror shards into 200-plus concrete figures, from Paul Bunyan to horse-drawn wagons — free, open dawn to dusk.
Road trips · Wisconsin
Wisconsin road trips & hidden gems.
The stops worth changing a travel day for in Wisconsin — crowd-voted gems, events worth traveling for, and the public golf you can actually book. Curated by Roamward, the scenic road-trip planner.
Happening in Wisconsin
Presidents Cup 2026
Barely two dozen marquee events hit the whole country in a year — and Wisconsin has one this September. Roamward builds the trip around it: the scenic route in, the detours worth a slack day, and when rooms sell out.
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Hidden gems
What locals say you shouldn’t miss.
Crowd-nominated in the Gem Hunt. Add yours and vote the finalists into the app.
Off the Bayfield Peninsula at the state's far northern tip, Lake Superior has carved the red sandstone cliffs into arches and tunnels you can paddle into on a calm summer day from Meyers Beach.
On Highway 12 in Sumpter, south of Baraboo, a demolition man welded decades of salvaged machinery into a 300-ton scrap-metal spaceship — free to wander Thursday through Monday.
Tucked near Baileys Harbor on the quieter Lake Michigan side of Door County, this 1869 light sits on its own little island you reach by wading or riding a haywagon across a rocky causeway.
In the small western-Wisconsin town of Osseo off I-94, this 1973 diner has hauled in dozens of national blue ribbons for its sky-high, hand-rolled pies — the perfect grandma's-kitchen pit stop.
Southeast of Superior in the far northwest, a string of root-beer-colored waterfalls tumbling around a little island you cross on a 1930s wooden covered bridge — a perfect leg-stretch toward Duluth.
Worth traveling for
Events that put Wisconsin on the calendar.
Tee it up
Public golf you can book in Wisconsin.
Sheboygan · $$$$$ — Lakeside links, multiple PGA Championships
Nekoosa · $$$$ — Central Wisconsin's sandy dunescape
Nekoosa · $$$$ — Short, strategic heathland throwback
Sheboygan · $$$$ — Inland links sibling with four creeks
Hayward · $$ — Northwoods links-and-forest co-design
Plan the Wisconsin trip
Get the scenic route, the stops, and the timing.
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