When you live in the Upper Midwest, you’ve got to embrace winter. Wisconsinites have been doing so for well over 150 years.

Madeline Island is the southernmost island in the chain and gateway to the Apostle Islands National Park and Seashore. It’s just a short 20-minute ferry ride from Bayfield yet truly a world away.

Families will find plenty to do in the Milwaukee area this summer – from festivals and downtown events to museums, play gyms, and parks.

No matter whether it’s your first trip to Madison or your fifteenth, here are 20+ ways to explore the city through the eyes of a local.

Wisconsin’s beer garden renaissance is thanks to modern craft brewers and the public’s nostalgia for simpler times. Here are six that embody Gemütlichkeit, a word signifying coziness, good cheer, and togetherness.

With more than 90 attractions from which to sample—most of which are not waterparks—you’d have to spend more than a month in Wisconsin Dells to experience them all.

Waterfalls in Wisconsin are more likely to flow agreeably and splash, not cascade and crash because of modest elevations. Steepness of descent is one difference between a waterfall and rapids.

Many know Wisconsin as the Dairy State, however, few realize that it holds another title — the largest producer of cranberries in the world.

When Wheaton residents Willie and Kathy Beshire wanted to learn how to skate ski last winter, they made a bee-line for Minocqua in the far northern tier.