The weekend of May 15, we camped at Buckhorn State Park near Necedah in the south-west central part of the state. Twenty-five miles away is Roche-A-Cri State Park. We had driven through there two years ago, but it had been cold and wet out, so we didn’t do much exploring.
Hmm? But it was cold and wet when I returned last month. Do I see a trend?
We weren’t deterred this time. Hubby and the other old man, Dino, stayed behind at the campground, while son Nick, his friend Megan and his dog Wes joined me in some hiking.
The State Park was established in 1948 and includes a 41-site campground, which wasn’t suited to our needs. Hate to sound like a camping snob, but Buckhorn is much nicer, only being fifty years old.
A website for the park said that the name Roche-A-Cri comes from French meaning “crevice in the rock”. A direct translation, however, is “screaming rock”. Hmm? I guess that fits too, as the rock is also known for hosting turkey vultures.
There are Native American petroglyphs and pictographs on this “screaming rock”. Maybe that’s really where the name came from – messages silently “screaming” from the rock. Again, I’m going to go Hmmm?
After a visit to that site, we took the 302 stairs to the top of the rock.
The views were cool, but how much more awesome
they would have been had the sun been shining. I guess there will have to be
another trip to this park.
Websites for more information:
Wisconsin
State Parks website of Roche-A-Cri – https://dnr.wisconsin.gov/topic/parks/rocheacri/history
From
a website of some of the state parks in the USA –https://www.stateparks.com/roche_a_cri_state_park_in_wisconsin.html
My
blog post from two years ago of my first visit to Roche-A-Cri – https://chrisloehmer.blogspot.com/2019/09/another-road-trip-believe-it-or-not.html
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