Roche-a-Cri State Park
| Roche-a-Cri State Park | |
| Wisconsin State Park | |
| Country | United States |
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| State | Wisconsin |
| County | Adams |
| Location | Friendship |
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| Area | 605 acres (245 ha) |
| Founded | 1948 |
| Management | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources |
| IUCN category | V - Protected Landscape/Seascape |
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Roche-a-Cri State Park (from the French for crevice in the rock) is a state park north of Adams and Friendship in central Wisconsin. The park, 605 acres (245 ha) in area, was established in 1948.
The park features a 300-foot (91 m) rock outcropping with Native American petroglyphs—the Roche-a-Cri Petroglyphs—and a wooden stairway to the top, as well as more than 5 miles (8.0 km) of hiking trails.[1]
Natural History
The striking 300-foot (91 m) bluff is a hard core that remains from a larger sheet of Cambrian sandstone which has mostly eroded away. Around 19,000 to 15,000 years ago it was an island rising above Glacial Lake Wisconsin. On top of the bluff grow red oak, black oak, white oak, red pine, white pine, and jack pine. Buzzards also haunt the top.[2]
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Roche-A-CriRock.jpg
Outcropping rock
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Sign
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Roche A Cri State Park Mound.jpg
The park from the south
References
External links
- Roche-A-Cri State Park Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources
