Blue Mound State Park
Blue Mounds, Wisconsin

Blue Mound State Park is on the tallest hill in southern Wisconsin, about 25 miles west of Madison. The 1,153-acre park is a popular place for swimming, hiking, camping, cross-country skiing and mountain biking (both double and single track) and finding peace and solitude.

The top of the hill is 1,716 feet above sea level, the seventh-highest spot in Wisconsin.
DNR Photo

Blue Mound is on the border between two Wisconsin ecological landscapes. Most of the park is in the Southwest Savanna; the rest is in the Western Coulee and Ridges

How to Get There

Blue Mound State Park is just north of the Village of Blue Mounds, about 25 miles west of Madison via US Highway 18/151. From Highway 18/151, go north on County Highway F and turn left on County Highway ID into Blue Mounds. Go west on Highway ID about a half mile to Mounds Road. Turn right (north) and follow Mounds Road north through town. (Mounds Road becomes Mounds Park Road once you leave the village.) The park entrance is one mile north of the intersection of Highway ID and Mounds Road. Geographic coordinates are 43° 1' 28" N, 89° 50' 28" W.

By foot or bicycle, you can reach the park by way of the Military Ridge State Trail. The park access trail is about .7 mile west of Mounds Park Road on the Military Ridge Trail.

For More Information

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For more information, ask:

Karl Heil, Manager
4350 Mounds Park Rd., PO Box 98
Blue Mounds, WI 53517
(608) 437-5711