Native Sites

At the Wild Wolf River north of Shawano, the Menominee Logging Museum offers the largest and most complete museum of its kind in America. The museum’s seven log buildings and tens of thousands of artifacts tell about the tribe’s — and Wisconsin’s — history with logging. The museum is open May through October.

The George W. Brown, Jr. Ojibwe Museum & Cultural Center in the heart of the Lac du Flambeau reservation celebrates the history of the tribe through cultural programs, exhibits and seasonal workshops. Among the attractions is the largest sturgeon known to be caught by spear in the world, clocking in at more than 7 feet long and nearly 200 pounds.

The 145-mile Nicolet-Wolf River Scenic Byway cuts through land close to both the Lac du Flambeau and Mole Lake reservations. The byway contains stops for hiking, camping, bird feeding and more. At the Forest Pond Campground, visitors can camp and pick wild raspberries, blueberries and strawberries when in season.

More than 900 effigy mounds existed in Sauk County at one point, according to the county’s historical society. More than 75 percent of these mounds have been destroyed, plowed or otherwise erased. Man Mound, northeast of Baraboo, is one of the few effigy mounds in Wisconsin that remain nearly intact.

Southwest of Green Bay, the Oneida Nation Farm raises a variety of crops and Oneida Black Angus meat on more than 6,000 acres rented from the tribe. But the farm’s buffalo herd is an attraction unto itself. The tribe built an overlook with an observation deck to observe the 150-buffalo herd. The overlook is open year-round, but visitors should arrive early in the day to have the best chance of seeing the buffalo grazing during the summer months.