High Cliff State Park

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caption = Conical effigy mound
location = Sherwood, Wisconsin, USA
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built = 500 - 1500 A.D.
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added = January 25 1997cite web|url=http://www.nr.nps.gov/|title=National Register Information System|date=2008-04-15|work=National Register of Historic Places|publisher=National Park Service]
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High Cliff State Park is a convert|1145|acre|km2|sing=on Wisconsin state park near Sherwood, Wisconsin. It is the only state-owned recreation area located on Lake Winnebago. [http://www.dnr.state.wi.us/org/land/parks/specific/highcliff/ High Cliff State Park] official website, Retrieved August 9 2007] The park was established in 1956.

The park got its name from cliffs of the Niagara Escarpment, a land formation east of the shore of Lake Winnebago. The formation stretches north through northeast Wisconsin, Upper Michigan, Ontario, to Niagara Falls. The north shoreline of Lake Winnebago is visible from a 40 foot tall observation tower at the top of the escarpment. The park currently features a picnic area, a boat launch, and a beach. Activities include camping, hiking, horse riding, skiing, and picnicing.

Effigy mounds at the top of the escarpment have led to a small part of the park being added to the National Register of Historic Places, listed as High Cliff Mounds. A trail meanders though six long-tailed mounds and several conical mounds.cite book|last=Birmingham|first=Robert A.|coauthors=Eisenberg, Leslie E.|title=Indian Mounds of Wisconsin|publisher=University of Wisconsin Press|date=2000|pages=page 194|isbn=0299168743| url=http://books.google.com/books?id=wPNA_SnfrZ0C&pg=PA194&lpg=PA194&dq=%22calumet+county+park%22+mounds&source=web&ots=4bSWUD-eyI&sig=CmupxWVtnnEcVzVcmwgItyF9-hA&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=7&ct=result |accessdate=2008-09-29] The group originally consisted of a bird and a mound that was most likely a bear. The mounds are consistent with other mound groups found at the peak of the Niagara Escarpment along the eastern shore of Lake Winnebago, including the Calumet County Park Group.

References

External links

* [http://www.dnr.state.wi.us/org/land/parks/specific/highcliff/ High Cliff State Park] official website