If you're planning to travel north to paddle this summer—way north like to the Boundary Waters Canoe Area in Minnesota—stop in Spooner, Wisconsin on your way to tour the brand new Wisconsin Canoe Heritage Museum. This non-profit canoe museum and workshop is the nation's only museum dedicated purely to canoeing and wooden canoebuilding. You'll find an amazing display of restored and original wooden canoes dating from pre-1900 to the present, along with a busy canoebuilding workshop with as many as six new wood canoes or historic restorations going on at one time. Check out the website at : http://www.wisconsincanoeheritagemuseum.com/index.html
And the best part of visiting this part of northwest Wisconsin is that you're in the backyard of America's first two National Wild and Scenic Rivers, the Namekagon and St. Croix, established in 1969 by Wisconsin Senator Gaylord Nelson. Both rivers are less that 30 minutes away from the museum, and the St. Croix/Namekagon Waterway Vistor's Center for the rivers is only five minutes away in Trego, WI. There you'll find interactive displays, films, detailed river maps, lists of outfitters, and everything needed to get you on the water and paddling two of the prettiest and most pristine rivers in the nation. A third wild and scenic river in the Spooner area, the Totagatic, was just designated as such by the Wisconsin DNR, who purchased critical undeveloped sections of the river in 2009.
Hey, where else can you find a canoe museum to tour, and three Wild and Scenic Rivers to paddle within 30 minutes of each oher?
And the best part of visiting this part of northwest Wisconsin is that you're in the backyard of America's first two National Wild and Scenic Rivers, the Namekagon and St. Croix, established in 1969 by Wisconsin Senator Gaylord Nelson. Both rivers are less that 30 minutes away from the museum, and the St. Croix/Namekagon Waterway Vistor's Center for the rivers is only five minutes away in Trego, WI. There you'll find interactive displays, films, detailed river maps, lists of outfitters, and everything needed to get you on the water and paddling two of the prettiest and most pristine rivers in the nation. A third wild and scenic river in the Spooner area, the Totagatic, was just designated as such by the Wisconsin DNR, who purchased critical undeveloped sections of the river in 2009.
Hey, where else can you find a canoe museum to tour, and three Wild and Scenic Rivers to paddle within 30 minutes of each oher?