Heritage Hill State Park #46

Did we plan out our last state park visit? No, definitely not. In fact, we didn't know whether we would count Heritage Hill State Historical Park as a state park, but once we discovered that it was on the DNR website, it was a go. The park has four main areas interpreting the life and times of pioneers, early fur traders and settlers. The Fox-Wisconsin Riverway linked the Northwest Territory and the settled East.


We had visited this park once before, and it's a great place for school groups to visit to learn about history. It's also a nice place for weddings, with a trellis and sitting area set-up with an outstanding view of the Fox Valley. If you were to visit on a warm, summer weekend, you would encounter employees in period dress explaining what it was like to live in period times in various settings and occupations. As we were here on a brisk October weekend, we didn't enjoy that as part of our visit. However, the large number of Halloween decorations delighted G endlessly.


There really aren't hiking trails at this park, it's a living history museum in an outside setting. We traversed around to the different buildings, tagging along with some school groups as they viewed the old farmstead and animals there. We saw two goats playing "king of the hill" on an elevated plank. As we were in Green Bay, we also swung by Lambeau Field, really a "no brainer. As you may have guessed, Grant wasn't a fan of the statues around the Lambeau Leap photo op, but he was a trooper nonetheless.


I don't know if it was this park or something else, but this last visit was somewhat anti-climactic. G and I high fived to mark the end of our journey, but it seemed to be not quite enough, yet I didn't have an alternate plan that I could envision for that day. I definitely felt a sense of accomplishment, but it didn't feel like an "ending". Either way, we are done. Next stop, unknown.