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GRANT COUNTY INVITES YOU FOR THE PERFECT VACATION... ANYTIME!

Come enjoy and have fun in historic Grant County...with its green hills and valleys, precipitous bluffs, spring fed streams, bordered by the mighty Mississippi and Wisconsin Rivers, where things to do and see make this the place for a perfect vacation.

GOLF COURSES Birchwood Golf Course, Kieler Hickory Grove Golf Course, Fennimore Lancaster Municipal Golf Course Platteville Golf & Country Club Cole Acres Golf Course, Cuba City FISHING Trout, bass and all types of panfish Mississippi, Wisconsin, Platte, Blue and Green Rivers, Trout and Bass Streams. ICE FISHING A very popular sport. HUNTING Small game of waterfowl and wild turkey to white-tailed deer WATER SPORTS Excellent boating facilities. Water skiing on the Mississippi. Swimming at pools and beaches. PARKS Wyalusing State Park, Wyalusing Nelson Dewey State Park, Cassville City and Village Parks Roadside Parks 11 County Boat Landings Fenley Recreation Area (Hiking trails and scenic view of the Mississippi River) Town of Jamestown ACCOMMODATIONS Numerous motels, hotels and campgrounds. Bed and Breakfast Inns. SCENIC HISTORIC DRIVES Great River Road. This scenic parkway, winding along the sides of the Mississippi River, follows Routes 35 and 133 through Grant County. CHEESE/WINERIES/VINEYARDS Numerous cheese factories, wineries, & vineyards. Most offer tastings and are open year-round. HERITAGE TRAIL Four state historic and scenic trails pass thru Grant County. SNOWMOBILING 214 miles of public Snowmobile Trails HISTORICAL Stonefield Village and Museum, and home of Wisconsin's first Governor, Nelson Dewey, at Cassville. Old Denniston House Old river hotel, built in 1836 at Cassville. Grant County Courthouse at Lancaster, listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Grave of Nelson Dewey at Lancaster. Jamison Museum in Platteville. Boscobel Hotel, where Gideon Bible Society was founded, in Boscobel. Rountree House at Platteville. Mining Museum at Platteville. Cunningham Museum at Lancaster. Civil War Exhibit at the Courthouse in Lancaster. Doll and Toy Museum, Fennimore Raiload Historical Society Museum, Fennimore THINGS TO SEE University of Wisconsin Platteville Grotto at Dickeyville Castle Rock Mound Center, Sinsinawa Wilson State Tree Nursery at Boscobel Plus the rugged, natural beauty of the unglaciated "Berkshires of Wisconsin" Car Ferry, Cassville Southwest Wisconsin Technical College, Fennimore Lower Wisconsin State Riverway Potosi Brewery

MUNICIPALITIES Bagley Bloomington Blue River Boscobel Cassville Cuba City Dickeyville Fennimore Hazel Green Lancaster Livingston Montfort Mt. Hope Muscoda Patch Grove Platteville Potosi Woodman