Bear Mound Park (Madison, Wisconsin)
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park, mound
Large Indian effigy mound in the shape of a bear. When the neighborhood was planned in the 1890s, Vilas Avenue was split around it, preserving most of it. Other mounds in the area were not so lucky.
Link: www.wisconsinhistory.org/madison/madisonmounds.pdf
Link: www.wisconsinhistory.org/madison/madisonmounds.pdf
Nearby cities:
Coordinates: 43°3'47"N 89°24'39"W
- University of Wisconsin Arboretum 3.1 km
- Blue Mound State Park 37 km
- Yellowstone Lake State Park 58 km
- Sugar River Forest Preserve 67 km
- Pecatonica Wetlands Forest Preserve 81 km
- Rock Cut State Park 84 km
- Rush Creek Conservation Area 98 km
- Deer Run Forest Preserve 100 km
- Oak Ridge Forest Preserve 102 km
- Marengo Ridge Conservation Area 107 km
- Lake Wingra 1.3 km
- Dane County, Wisconsin 1.3 km
- University of Wisconsin - Madison 2.1 km
- Arbor Hills neighborhood 4 km
- Lake Monona 4 km
- Midvale Heights neighborhood 4.3 km
- Hill Farms neighborhood 4.4 km
- Lake Waubesa 8.9 km
- Oakhill Correctional 11 km
- Badger State Trail 35 km