Historic Downtown Lodi, Wisconsin

Gibraltar Rock: Rising 200 feet above the surrounding landscape, Gibraltar Rock is a flat-topped butte, an outlier of the Magnesian escarpment. With a thin Platteville-Galena dolomite cap over St. Peter sandstone, the butte offers panoramic views of the Wisconsin River Valley and Lake Wisconsin. Soils are thin, glaciated sandy loams. On the south is a sheer rock face overlooking a large leather-leaf bog and scenic valley. A major portion of the site is a dry mesic forest dominated by red oak and basswood. Cliff communities are mostly open and harbor several species of ferns, pale corydalis, columbine, and cliff goldenrod. On the bluff top is an area dominated by red cedar with an understory of dry prairie. Species include big and little blue-stem, side oats grama, prairie drop-seed, blue eyed grass, bird's foot violet, pasque flower, prairie smoke, lead-plant, bergamot, whorled milkweed, goldenrods, and asters. The site is used by migrating raptors, which catch thermals formed by the warm cliff face. Gibraltar Rock was originally owned by Columbia County, which transferred ownership to the DNR in 2007. It was designated a State Natural Area in 1969.

Lodi Marsh State Natural Area: This property has some of the largest contiguous grasslands in Dane County. It has high quality southern hardwood (oak-hickory) woods; it has cattail marsh, sedge marsh, shrub-carr, goat prairies and a northern hardwood component on the north side of Center Bluff. It also has many springs. Spring Creek traverses the property. This wildlife area is a mixture of bluffy areas, grasslands, wetlands, a creek and woods.

Merrimac Ferry: The Merrimac Ferry, which crosses the Wisconsin River between Sauk and Columbia counties, is Wisconsin's only free ferry. It shuttles WIS 113 traffic 24 hours a day, seven days a week, between Okee on the east bank and Merrimac on the west.

The craft holds 15 vehicles at a time, in addition to bicycles and pedestrians. A single crossing takes about seven minutes.

Slack's Jelly Farm 608-592-4804: Taking pride in producing "home-made" quality jams, jellies, salsas and relishes since 1954.