April 26-27, 2014 Yellowstone Lake State Park, Blanchardville, WI

We decided to try a new park this weekend, so we headed out from home around 10am to Yellowstone Lake State Park after wishing Nana a Happy Birthday. We didn’t make reservations as the plans were made late, so we got there around noon and started looking at the campsites. We picked a handful that we liked. I voted for site 55, which had a lake view, but the kiddo had her heart set on site 12. We flipped a coin at the ranger station, and site 12 it was. Some other sites we considered suitable were 26, 80, …. ? I put up the tarp while Lorraine set up the tent. This was my first time rigging up the tarp, and it worked quite well even though there were some challenges in terms of tree locations/heights. I didn’t get it very high, but it was just high enough to stand under and offer some protection from the rain. We only spent one night, but we found some time to fish at the dam and hike a couple of the short hiking loops. Lorraine really like the 1 mile loop by the ranger station for viewing birds. We saw some swans feeding on fish, lots and lots of geese and ducks, including dozens of ducklings and goslings.This is a pretty nice park with a nice, intimate lake.