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"End of the Trail" in Shaler Park

Shaler Park, 400 N. Madison Street

Clarence Shaler, a Waupun industrialist, commissioned sculptor James Earle Fraser to cast "End of the Trail" in bronze after seeing the plaster version at the 1914 exposition, and gave it to the city. It anchors what Travel Wisconsin calls the state's "City of Sculpture": 13 pieces on a self-guided tour that also includes The Citadel in front of the Waupun Heritage Museum at 22 S. Madison Street, Dawn of Day at City Hall, and Recording Angel in Forest Mound Cemetery. Commentary for each piece plays through the free Otocast app.

Marsh Haven Nature Center

W10145 State Road 49, three miles east of town

A volunteer-run non-profit nature centre founded in 1984 at the north end of Horicon Marsh, on Highway 49. The trails are open daily from 10 a.m. to sunset. The education building opens weekends only in February and March and again in November and December; from early April it is open Thursdays and Fridays 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. and weekends 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

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Horicon Marsh

North end reached from State Highway 49, a few miles east

About 33,000 acres of wetland carrying two designations at once: a state wildlife area under the Wisconsin DNR and a national wildlife refuge under the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. It is also listed as a Wetland of International Importance. Migration brings hundreds of thousands of ducks through, along with tens of thousands of Canada geese and sandhill cranes. Bald eagles, great blue herons and the state-endangered black tern nest or feed here.

Waupun County Park and the Maple Forest

825 County Park Road

A 103-acre Fond du Lac County park. It holds a wooded 38-unit family campground and a group site area, two open-air picnic shelters and one enclosed shelter, a disc golf course, and volleyball, basketball and pickleball courts. The City of Waupun runs a swimming facility on adjacent property. The northeastern 40 acres are State Natural Area #51, Waupun Park Maple Forest — red and white oak, maple and white ash — crossed by hiking and skiing trails.

Wild Goose State Trail

Trail parking on the north side of State Highway 49, east of town

A 34-mile crushed-stone trail running from State Highway 60 near Clyman Junction north to Fond du Lac, passing Minnesota Junction, Juneau and Oakfield. A parking lot on the north side of State Highway 49 sits next to the trail, and there is more parking at the National Wildlife Refuge lot about a quarter-mile east of the trail off the same highway. The trail is open year round and no state trail pass is required.

Waupun Heritage Museum

22 S. Madison Street, downtown

The city's Carnegie library, built in 1904-05 to a Gothic Revival design by architect H. A. Foeller and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. It stopped serving as the public library in 1968 when a new library opened, and has been leased to the Waupun Historical Society since 1971. The society runs it as the local history museum.

Photos: "End of the Trail" in Shaler Park — Shawn Conrad, CC BY-SA 3.0; Horicon Marsh — Allen C from Prairie du Sac, WI, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0; Waupun County Park and the Maple Forest — Joshua Mayer from Madison, WI, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0; Wild Goose State Trail — Dr-t, CC BY-SA 4.0; Waupun Heritage Museum — Bahrsoap, CC BY-SA 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

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Living in Waupun

Waupun Area School District runs four schools. Three are in the city: Meadow View Primary at 506 Beaver Dam St., Rock River Intermediate at 451 E. Spring St., and Waupun Junior/Senior High School at 801 Lincoln St. The fourth is SAGES, the district's project-based public charter school for 4K through 6th grade, at 200 S. Depot St. in Fox Lake. source

In town. SSM Health Waupun Memorial Hospital has its main entrance at 320 W. Brown Street, across the street from Johnson's West End Park. It is a 25-bed hospital listed as open 24 hours, and emergency services are among what it offers. Also on site: obstetrics with labor and delivery, intensive care, surgical services, outpatient dialysis, MRI, radiology, ultrasound, laboratory, cardiopulmonary and rehabilitation. The number is 920-324-5581. source

Beaver Dam is the closest, roughly 14 miles from Waupun and about a 20-minute drive. source

There is no city bus route and no passenger rail. What Waupun has is Waupun Taxi, a shared-ride taxi service the city contracts to Brown Cab. It runs Monday to Thursday 6 a.m. to 6 p.m.; Friday 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. and again 9 p.m. to 2:30 a.m.; Saturday 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. and 9 p.m. to 2:30 a.m.; Memorial Day 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.; New Year's Eve 9 p.m. to 2:30 a.m.; no service on Sundays. The posted 2024 fares are $4 regular, $3 for students and for elderly or disabled riders, $6 late night, $2.75 for an additional passenger to the same destination, and $2.50 per mile outside the service area. Call 920-324-2426. source

Waupun has no long-record NOAA station of its own, so the nearest 1991-2020 normals come from Beaver Dam WWTP, southwest of town. There January averages a high of 24.7 F and a low of 8.8 F, with measurable snow on about five days in the month. Snowfall normals run 13.0 inches in January, 10.6 in February and 8.8 in December, adding to roughly 43 inches across the year. source

The city line crosses the Dodge-Fond du Lac county boundary and residents are split between the two: at the 2020 census 7,795 of the 11,344 residents were on the Dodge County side and 3,549 on the Fond du Lac side. Which side an address sits on decides the county portion of the property tax bill, and which county sheriff, register of deeds and human services office you deal with. Check which county your address is in. source