Fun and Educational Family Travel Tips

Here are some photos of some of the great sites you can enjoy at Devil’s Lake State Park.  Here is a photo of the lake.  Check out the sailboat in the background!  This is where we first stopped off after entering through the gate.

We then drove around a bit aimlessly until we ended up outside of the park.  We looped around and decided to go through the other entrance.  Here, we found a designated beach area with a rather large parking lot.  We were confused about where the trailheads we wanted were located, so we just got out and walked around.  It didn’t take long before we found the trailhead to the Devil’s Gate and some other sites.   Here is a large boulder we found along the way that the boys climbed up.

And here are the boys exploring a rock formation that formed a bit of a cave.

Along the way, you will get some great views of the hills.  Check out the rocks in the background.  Those are the “stairs” you will climb along the way. 

You will also get some great views of the lake.

Here is my husband and my two oldest boys walking down to the Devil’s Gate rock formation.  The twins are going down there too, but you can’t see them in the photo.

Here is Kieran triumphantly standing in front of Devil’s gate.  Check out the cool view of the hills and the lake below.

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For me and my family, no vacation is complete without including some sort of nature aspect to it.  While the trip on the ducks and on the speedboats had a certain amount of nature to it, it is not quite the same as getting out there and hiking.  So, we decided to add a trip to Devil’s Lake State Park to our trip.

 Getting around the state park was a little bit confusing, as there are a couple of different entrances to the park and they are a bit spread apart from one another.  Not only that, I hadn’t really planned this leg of the trip too thoroughly because there wasn’t too much info on the Net.

At any rate, we decided to just drive around the park and see what would strike our fancy.  There were quite a few visitors to the park and you have to pay for parking ($5), so be sure to bring some cash.  There are two lines for entering the park.  One line was supposed to be for people that already have passes, but we noticed that quite a few people were purchasing their passes from that line too (which was moving much faster than our line, I might add). 

The lake is absolutely beautiful.  The water is quite blue and the lake is surrounded by large, grassy hills.  There are also several trails at the park.  We took the trail to Devil’s Door, which is a huge rock formation.  The entire trip was up a hill with stone steps naturally placed throughout the hill.  Finding the right rocks could be a little confusing at times and the walk up the hill is pretty physical, but everyone managed it (including the 5 year old twins).

After seeing the rock formation and some other sites along the way, we had to walk back down the hill through another path.  This one was also straight down and quite similar to the trail we took on the way  up.  Some of the rocks were a bit slippery, too, so if you take this path, be sure to watch out for the rocks and use a bit of caution.

Visiting Devil’s Lake State Park was definitely worth adding to our agenda.  It only took about 15 minutes to get there from Wisconsin Dells, too, so it was pretty convenient as well.

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