2023 Trip #5 – High Cliff State Park & Stockbridge
by Tom (rvSeniorMoments) on July 16, 2023
From the Wisconsin State Fair RV Park we traveled north to High Cliff State Park on Lake Winnebago.
High Cliff is one of our favorite destinations. We’ve been camping at this park since the early 2000’s and made it a point to return.
High Cliff with our former dogs Jack (left) and Ellie (right) in October 2008. Jack was freaked out by the moving Halloween decorations.
Ellie and Jack on our first RV’s bed
Our current fur ball Flirt at High Cliff
Walking a High Cliff trail with Flirt
OUR FAVORITE CAMPSITE
We reserved one of our favorite campsites at High Cliff . . .
A site with electricity is as good as you’ll get at High Cliff
High Cliff’s limestone ledge is part of the Niagara Escarpment that rings the Great Lakes
A view of Lake Winnebago from the top of the limestone ledge
Walking the High Cliff Indian mounds trail with Jim and Marianne, friends from our Lake Havasu days
STOCKBRIDGE HIGH SCHOOL
Stockbridge, Wisconsin is just a few miles from High Cliff State Park. Tom taught high school English here during 1977 and 78. The school building housed grades 1 though 12 as it was a small community.
The school in 1978 (sorry, had to use a high school yearbook photo)
Yearbook photo of the 1977 Senior Class play Mr Hughes supervised. Take me back.The current school.
Stockbridge put a banner of each graduating senior on street poles. There were 14 banners.
Finally, we visited Martin Rudy, a science teacher Tom taught with at Stockbridge. Martin is one of a kind. A true mensch.
Re: the ‘Ledge’ at High Cliff State Park, WI… Three years ago, I was enchanted by the Niagara Escarpment & sought it out in Wisconsin. The prime example was at High Cliff. So I drove up to the northeastern edge of Lake Winnebago, drove up a heavily tree-lined road to the uppermost part of High Cliff. Parked in some weird stone-lined parking lot, got out and looked around. Looked all around the surroundings and wondered.. where the heck is ‘the ledge’?? Then I read an info sign that told me .. Duh!.. I was actually standing on it in the parking lot. The lot was carved out of the ledge by some ambitious miners.. who eventually abandoned the project. Yup, The Ledge.. I was standing on it in the parking lot. And it’s BIG.. runs all the way along the Great Lakes – right up to… Niagara Falls! Go figure 🙂
Sister Mary.. duh.. (sometimes things are just Too Obvious..)
rvSeniorMoments 
The park looks beautiful and very interesting.
The trip so far has been looking great!
Re: the ‘Ledge’ at High Cliff State Park, WI… Three years ago, I was enchanted by the Niagara Escarpment & sought it out in Wisconsin. The prime example was at High Cliff. So I drove up to the northeastern edge of Lake Winnebago, drove up a heavily tree-lined road to the uppermost part of High Cliff. Parked in some weird stone-lined parking lot, got out and looked around. Looked all around the surroundings and wondered.. where the heck is ‘the ledge’?? Then I read an info sign that told me .. Duh!.. I was actually standing on it in the parking lot. The lot was carved out of the ledge by some ambitious miners.. who eventually abandoned the project. Yup, The Ledge.. I was standing on it in the parking lot. And it’s BIG.. runs all the way along the Great Lakes – right up to… Niagara Falls! Go figure 🙂
Sister Mary.. duh.. (sometimes things are just Too Obvious..)