Wing your way through Wisconsin – Visit the Great Wisconsin Birding & Nature Trail
The Great Wisconsin Birding & Nature Trail is your invitation to observe the diverse wildlife Wisconsin has to offer. It’s a mapped auto trail that will reach into every area of the state when complete. Full-color viewing guides with maps and descriptions of every site will lead the nature traveler to warblers, shorebirds, eagles, loons, cranes and all manner of mammals found in some of the states premier wildlife venues.
Outstanding natural resources will make this an exceptional trail. The public has nominated National Forest Service properties, state natural areas, county, city and state parks, private museums, nature centers and US Fish & Wildlife Service properties for inclusion in the project. A system was used to assess each site, and those that ranked highest in the process were placed in the project.
The first out of five regional trails developed was the Lake Superior/Northwoods Birding and Nature Trail. Covering Wisconsin’s 18 northern counties, the trail includes 88 waypoints from the Apostle Islands to the Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest. The Mississippi/Chippewa Rivers Birding and Nature Trail was set to open in 2005, followed by the Lake Michigan Trail in 2006, Central Sands Prairie Trail in 2007 and Southern Savanna Trail in 2008.