Detourmap
Places worth the detour in Wisconsin
Detourmap lists 63 places in Wisconsin, United States, across 2 kinds of detour. Best known: Lake Winnebago. 60 rank as little-known. Click any card to open it on the map.
- Places
- 63
- Oldest
- Northerner 1850
- Little known
- 60 of 63
- Share of United States
- 2%
Wisconsin 63
All 63, best known first.
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2.Lake Pepin
Nature · Notable
Natural lake on the Mississippi River in Minnesota and Wisconsin, United States
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5.Madeline Island
Nature · Hidden gem
One of the Apostle Islands in Lake Superior, northern Wisconsin, United States
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8.Wyalusing State Park
Archaeological · 20th century · Hidden gem
State park in Wisconsin, United States
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12.Roche-a-Cri Petroglyphs
Archaeological · Hidden gem
Historic place located near Friendship, Adams County, Wisconsin
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13.Whitefish Dunes State Park
Archaeological · 20th century · Hidden gem
State park in Wisconsin, United States
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15.Necedah National Wildlife Refuge
Nature · 20th century · Hidden gem
National Wildlife Refuge in Juneau County, Wisconsin
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16.Trempealeau National Wildlife Refuge
Nature · 20th century · Hidden gem
Wildlife preserve in Wisconsin
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17.Upper Mississippi River National Wildlife and Fish Refuge
Nature · Hidden gem
National wildlife refuge in Minnesota, United States
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18.Dells of the Wisconsin River
Nature · Hidden gem
Gorge of the Wisconsin River in Wisconsin, United States
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19.SS Continental
Archaeological · Hidden gem
Bulk carrier that sank in Lake Michigan off the coast of Two Rivers, Wisconsin, United States
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23.Copper Culture State Park
Archaeological · 20th century · Hidden gem
Archaeological site and Wisconsin state park
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24.Van Hise Rock
Nature · Hidden gem
Rock monolith located along Wisconsin Highway 136 near Rock Springs, Wisconsin
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31.Kate Kelly (shipwreck)
Archaeological · Hidden gem
Place in Wisconsin listed on National Register of Historic Places
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38.SS J.M. Allmendinger
Archaeological · 19th century · Hidden gem
Wooden-hulled steam barge wrecked in Lake Michigan
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46.SS Appomattox
Archaeological · Hidden gem
Largest wooden steamship on the Great Lakes wrecked in 1905
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53.Bullhead Point Historical and Archeological District
Archaeological · Hidden gem
Archaeological site and shipwreck in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin
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58.Wisconsin Heights Battlefield
Archaeological · Hidden gem
Battlefield in Wisconsin, United States
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62.Harrison
Archaeological · Hidden gem
Human settlement in Calumet County, Wisconsin, United States of America
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63.Kaiser
Archaeological · Hidden gem
Human settlement in Price County, Wisconsin, United States of America
Elsewhere in United States
Questions about this page
What is the best known place worth the detour in Wisconsin?
Lake Winnebago. Lake in Wisconsin. It leads because more Wikipedia language editions cover it than any other place here.
How many places worth the detour are there in Wisconsin?
63: 46 archaeological & historic sites and 17 nature & landscapes. 60 of them are little known — they carry a Wikipedia article in only a handful of languages.
What is the oldest place on this map in Wisconsin?
Northerner, dated to 1850. 10 of the 63 places here carry a founding date at all.
What counts as Wisconsin here?
Wikidata's own administrative boundary: a place is in Wisconsin if its located in the administrative territorial entity chain leads there. Wisconsin is a first-level division of United States, the same level as a state or a province.
Where does this information come from?
Every place is drawn from Wikidata (CC0), with photographs from Wikimedia Commons and a link to its English Wikipedia article. Selection is deterministic: a place is here because Wikidata files it under one of the classes this atlas carries and it has coordinates, a photo and an article. Nothing is written or chosen by an AI, and the ranking is simply how many Wikipedia language editions cover a place.