Austin to Tempealeau

Austin Minnesota to Tempealeau Wisconsin
I left Austin after seeing the Spam Museum and headed East again along Hwy 90. For a side adventure though I took Hwy 14 and then Hwy 61 when I reached Winona Minnesota. This was so that I could come down the Mississippi River on the West side by the River Bluffs State Park. The land was flat and then all of a sudden I was going down at a 6% grade. Well why do you think that they call them bluffs. So I finally reached the great Mississippi River. Majestic and wide here in Minnesota it is hard to imagine what the early travelers in wagons thought when they reached it and looked at those bluffs which was just the start of their journey westward.
I did not stay at the Great River Bluffs State Park but instead crossed the Miss. at La Crosse ( a fitting French name don’t you think) and traveled slightly north to Perrot State Park (named after the French Trapper and explorer of this area). I am closer to the river here and this is just a lovely tree shaded park.
The foliage has changed here by the river to large deciduous trees. These are not the pines we were used to in the western forests but the large oak, elm, walnut and maples that abound in the northeast.
Well this and the other blogs are all for now. Time to barbeque that steak for my dinner
1 The Bluffs from above
2 Camp Perrot Rd to the campground
3 Minnesota geology
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5 Campsite