Milwaukee Parks by Radius

National Park Service

Apostle Islands National Lakeshore
Wisconsin's northernmost landscape juts out into Lake Superior as the scenic archipelago known as the Apostle Islands. The national lakeshore includes 21 islands and 12 miles of mainland Lake Superior shoreline.

Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical Park
Dayton Aviation Heritage commemorates three exceptional men - Wilbur Wright, Orville Wright, and Paul Laurence Dunbar - and their work in the Miami Valley. Through the invention of powered flight, Wilbur and Orville made significant contributions to human history. Paul Laurence Dunbar, an African-American, achieved national and international acclaim in a literary world that was almost exclusively reserved for whites.

Effigy Mounds National Monument
The monument contains 2,526 acres with 195 mounds of which 31 are effigies. The others are conical, linear and compound. Natural features in the monument include forests, tallgrass prairies, wetlands and rivers.

Father Marquette National Memorial
Father Jacques Marquette, a French Jesuit missionary, established Michigan's earliest European settlements at Sault Ste. Marie and St. Ignace. Father Marquette helped Louis Jolliet map the Mississippi River.

Gettysburg National Cemetery
It was here during the dedication ceremony on November 19, 1863, that President Abraham Lincoln spoke of "these honored dead..." and renewed the Union cause to reunite the war-torn nation with his most famous speech, the "Gettysburg Address". Today, the Gettysburg National Cemetery is the final resting place for American veterans from all of this country's major wars and conflicts.

Green Springs
Green Springs is a natural basin caused by erosion of a volcanic intrusion resulting in particularly fertile soil.

Herbert Hoover National Historic Site
The Herbert Hoover National Historic Site buildings and grounds are preserved to commemorate the life of the 31st President of the United States.

Hopewell Culture National Historical Park
The park contains nationally significant archeological resources including large earthwork and mound complexes that provide an insight into the social, ceremonial, political, and economic life of the Hopewell people.

Ice Age National Scenic Trail
The Ice Age National Scenic Trail travels through the edges of the glacier that passed into Wisconsin.

Illinois and Michigan Canal National Heritage Corridor
The Illinois and Michigan Canal, completed in 1848, connected the Great Lakes to the Mississippi River watershed along a longstanding Indian portage route. It rapidly transformed Chicago from a small settlement to a critical transportation hub between the East and the developing Midwest.

Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore
The national lakeshore runs for nearly 25 miles along southern Lake Michigan, bordered by Michigan City, Indiana on the east, and Gary on the west. Miles of beaches, sand dunes, bog, wetlands, woodland forests, an 1830's French Canadian homestead, and a working 1900 era farm combine to make the national lakeshore a unique setting for studying humans and their impact on the environment.

Keweenaw National Historical Park
Keweenaw National Historical Park preserves the heritage of copper mining in this unique setting amid many of the original structures and landscapes of the copper era.

Lincoln Home National Historic Site
Abraham and Mary Lincoln lived here from 1844 until Mr. Lincoln's election to the Presidency in 1861.

North Country National Scenic Trail
The North Country National Scenic Trail when completed will become the longest continuous hiking trail in the United States. The trail allows hikers to experience a variety of features, from clear-flowing streams, to thick Northern woods, from vast prairies to clean lakes.

Perrys Victory and International Peace Memorial
In 1817 the United States signed the Rush-Bagot Agreement with Great Britain, a document that has resulted in peaceful relations between the United States and Canada since the War of 1812. Perry's Victory and International Peace Memorial was built not only to commemorate the American naval triumph, but also "to inculcate the lessons of international peace by arbitration and disarmament."

Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore
Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore consists of multicolored sandstone cliffs, beaches, sand dunes, waterfalls, inland lakes, wildlife and the forest of the Lake Superior shoreline.

Saint Croix National Scenic River
Canoe amid the northwoods, where wolves, deer, otter and porcupine can be seen or boat surrounded by wooded bluffs and historic towns. The river's past can also be seen on the landscape; a stone wall, a steel ring, a cabin or a metal bridge recalls earlier times.

Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore
The park was established primarily for its outstanding natural features, including forests, beaches, dune formations, and ancient glacial phenomena. The Lakeshore also contains many cultural features including a 1871 lighthouse, three former Life-Saving Service/Coast Guard Stations and an extensive rural historic farm district.

William Howard Taft National Historic Site
The William Howard Taft National Historic Site commemorates the only man to serve as President and Chief Justice of the United States.

USDA Forest Service

Hiawatha National Forest

Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie

Ottawa National Forest

Wayne National Forest

Fish and Wildlife Service

Cedar Point National Wildlife Refuge

Clarence Cannon National Wildlife Refuge

Gravel Island National Wildlife Refuge

Green Bay National Wildlife Refuge

Horicon National Wildlife Refuge

Huron National Wildlife Refuge

Meredosia National Wildlife Refuge

Michigan Islands National Wildlife Refuge

Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge

Muscatatuck National Wildlife Refuge

Necedah National Wildlife Refuge

Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge

Rice Lake National Wildlife Refuge

Seney National Wildlife Refuge

Shiawassee National Wildlife Refuge

Swan Lake National Wildlife Refuge

Trempealeau National Wildlife Refuge

West Sister Island National Wildlife Refuge

hiking-trails

Herbert Hoover National Historic Site
The Herbert Hoover National Historic Site buildings and grounds are preserved to commemorate the life of the 31st President of the United States.

US Army Corps of Engineers

North Branch Kokosing River Lake

Rathbun Lake

Salamonie Lake

West Fork of Mill Creek Lake