{"id":1407,"date":"2021-07-30T14:30:44","date_gmt":"2021-07-30T19:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pnts.org\/new\/?p=1407"},"modified":"2026-03-09T14:43:26","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T18:43:26","slug":"ice-age-national-scenic-trail-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pnts.org\/new\/ice-age-national-scenic-trail-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Ice Age National Scenic Trail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"http:\/\/pnts.org\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Ice-Age-Trail-Website.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-15146\" src=\"https:\/\/pnts.org\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Ice-Age-Trail-Sign-150x150.png\" alt=\"Ice Age National Scenic Trail sign features a brown wooly mammoth against a light blue background\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pnts.org\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Ice-Age-Trail-Sign-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/pnts.org\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Ice-Age-Trail-Sign-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/pnts.org\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Ice-Age-Trail-Sign-100x100.png 100w, https:\/\/pnts.org\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Ice-Age-Trail-Sign-75x75.png 75w, https:\/\/pnts.org\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Ice-Age-Trail-Sign-250x250.png 250w, https:\/\/pnts.org\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Ice-Age-Trail-Sign-400x400.png 400w, https:\/\/pnts.org\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Ice-Age-Trail-Sign.png 579w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Established:<\/strong> October 3, 1980<br \/>\n<\/span><strong>Managing Nonprofit: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.iceagetrail.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ice Age Trail Alliance<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Managing Agency: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nps.gov\/iatr\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">National Park Service<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_15148\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pnts.org\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Ice-Age-Trail-map.jpeg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15148\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-15148\" src=\"https:\/\/pnts.org\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Ice-Age-Trail-map-1024x972.jpeg\" alt=\"Ice Age National Scenic Trail Map\" width=\"400\" height=\"380\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pnts.org\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Ice-Age-Trail-map-1024x972.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/pnts.org\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Ice-Age-Trail-map-300x285.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/pnts.org\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Ice-Age-Trail-map-768x729.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/pnts.org\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Ice-Age-Trail-map-640x607.jpeg 640w, https:\/\/pnts.org\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Ice-Age-Trail-map-150x142.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/pnts.org\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Ice-Age-Trail-map.jpeg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-15148\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ice Age National Scenic Trail Map courtesy NPS.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">During the Ice Age that began about 2.6 million years ago and ended about 11,000 years ago, much of North America was covered by a single, enormous glacier. Remnants of that period remain in the State of Wisconsin in the form of lakes, river valleys, hills, and ridges. The Ice Age National Scenic Trail traces the edge of that glacier on its roughly 1200-mile course across the entire state of Wisconsin.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Northwestern Terminus:<\/strong> St. Croix National Scenic Riverway on the Minnesota-Wisconsin Border<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Southeastern Terminus:<\/strong> Potawatomi, Wisconsin near Sturgeon Bay<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/pnts.org\/new\/tag\/wisconsin\/\">Find other National Trails in Wisconsin here.<\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"button large right\">\n<div class=\"button-container medium right \"><a target=\"new\" class=\"button green\" href=\"https:\/\/www.iceagetrail.org\/volunteer\/\">Get Involved<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"button large right\">\n<div class=\"button-container medium right \"><a target=\"new\" class=\"button green\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nps.gov\/iatr\/index.htm\">Learn More-NPS<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"button large right\">\n<div class=\"button-container medium right \"><a target=\"new\" class=\"button green\" href=\"https:\/\/www.iceagetrail.org\/\">Learn More-IATA<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"button-container medium right \"><a target=\"new\" class=\"button green\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hipcamp.com\/en-US\/collections\/camping\/ice-age-trail\">Camping near the Ice Age National Scenic Trail<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Established: October 3, 1980 Managing Nonprofit: Ice Age Trail Alliance Managing Agency: National Park Service &nbsp; During the Ice Age that began about 2.6 million years ago and ended about 11,000 years ago, much of North America was covered by a single, enormous glacier.&hellip; <\/p>\n<div class=\"button right\"><a class=\"button more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/pnts.org\/new\/ice-age-national-scenic-trail-2\/\">more &raquo;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20],"tags":[11],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pnts.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1407"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pnts.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pnts.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pnts.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pnts.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1407"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/pnts.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21381,"href":"https:\/\/pnts.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1407\/revisions\/21381"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pnts.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pnts.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pnts.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pnts.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}