Blue River Sand Barrens State Natural Area
Blue River Sand Barrens State Natural Area
Wightman Rd - Blue River, WI 53518
Information:
608-375-4123
The unstable, sandy soil of this 130-acre terrace along the Wisconsin River is one of the state's largest and best examples of a dry prairie-like landscape and -ômoving-ö sand dune communities. Moving sands are shaped by the wind, creating -ôblowouts-ö or large unvegetated depressions. A scattered forest of black and Hill-Æs oaks help to stabilize the sand in other areas providing habitat for false heather and bearberry that have adapted to the dry and harsh conditions. Reptiles like the six-lined racerunner live here along with many species of grassland birds and river turtles that nest in the dunes.
What's Nearby
Events
Places To Stay
Dining
1
Spring Green Arts & Crafts Fair
6/28/2025 - 6/29/2025
Spring Green - 23.27 miles away
2
Taliesin Fall Foraging Event with Abbie Lehman of the Riverview Terrace Field School
10/12/2024
Spring Green - 23.9 miles away
3
A Day at Taliesin
10/13/2024
Spring Green - 23.9 miles away
4
Autumn Color: Train Rides Amid Brilliant Hues of Fall
10/05/2024 - 10/06/2024
North Freedom - 37.54 miles away
5
Blacklight and Brews
9/06/2024
Blue Mounds - 38.05 miles away
6
Blacklight Tour at Cave of the Mounds
9/07/2024
Blue Mounds - 38.05 miles away
7
Cave Lantern Tours
9/08/2024
Blue Mounds - 38.05 miles away
8
Norskedalen's Civil War Experience
10/12/2024
Coon Valley - 44.15 miles away