Fox-Wisconsin Heritage Parkway

The Fox-Wisconsin Heritage Parkway is a unique and varied landscape in the midwestern United States. This area in Wisconsin, consisting of the Fox and Lower Wisconsin Rivers, encompass an assortment of history, inhabitants and folklore that are as diverse as its topography. The proposed linear parkway slices diagonally across Wisconsin through parts of 15 counties following the Fox River from Gree

n Bay to Portage and the Wisconsin River from Portage to the Mississippi River. It marks the route taken in 1673 by explorers Father Jacques Marquette and Louis Joliet.

“The Fox-Wisconsin Heritage Parkway highlights a key portion of Wisconsin history that needs to be preserved for future generations,” U.S. Senator Herb Kohl said. “The development of the Mississippi and the West was due in part to the work of Marquette and Joliet, and it would be a shame for this piece of history to be lost as the years go on.”



Parkway supporters and organizers believe a National Heritage Area designation would provide the opportunity to protect and enhance the abundant resources and unique history of this area. It is the hope that visitors may learn about the parkway’s important role within the chronicles of American history.