http://mirrorlakewisconsin.com Guide To Mirror Lake State park, Wisconsin. Fri, 25 Jun 2010 16:29:34 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The big question this time of year is, “Will I need reservations at Mirror Lake State Park Too?”.  Well, on most weekends you will need reservations at almost ALL state parks.  With Mirror Lake & Rocky Arbor State Parks so close to Wisconsin Dells they are regularly booked up.  So unless you happen to own [...]]]> http://mirrorlakewisconsin.com/2010/06/10/summer-reservations/ Mirror Lake State Park has about 17 miles of trails and something for every skills and is where we decided to give cross country skiing our first try. The park was fairly busy for a winter day and that was obviously due to the popularity of XC at the park. We went inside to chat with the ranger for a few moments. He suggested that we head on over to the Fern Dell loop. The Fern Dell is a 3 mile loop of mainly forested and mostly flat trail.]]> http://mirrorlakewisconsin.com/2010/01/11/skiing-mirror/ No doubt about it, winter is here.  Heck, we even saw a few ice-fisherman out on the lake already.. and some open water too by the way.  Yesterday there was plenty of open ground on the trails.  Today we’re getting a couple inches of snow and a storm bringing 8-12 more inches is predicted for [...]]]> http://mirrorlakewisconsin.com/2009/12/07/winter-has-come/ Congratulations to the 2009 Friends of Wisconsin State Parks Award Winners including Mirror Lake who won a gold sea award for “Best Winter Fun”.  You certainly do have to give the Friends of Mirror Lake State Park a lot of credit for their work, not only in supporting the park but in coming up with [...]]]> http://mirrorlakewisconsin.com/2009/11/19/best-winter-fun-mirror-lake/ A big thank you goes out to everyone who came out to enjoy the Mystery Hike at Mirror Lake State Park on Saturday and helped to support the Friends of Mirror Lake State Park.  Read our blog about the event here.  Also remember that this coming Saturday, Halloween night, Devil’s Lake State Park will be [...]]]> http://mirrorlakewisconsin.com/2009/10/27/thanks-more/ Oct 24th from 5:30 – 8:30 Mirror Lake State Park will be holding it’s annual Halloween Candlelight Hike. This is one of our family’s favorite events!  We start the day early by heading to Sky High Apple Orchard near Devil’s Lake State Park. From there we drive on over to Wollersheim Winery in Sauk Prairie [...]]]> http://mirrorlakewisconsin.com/2009/10/06/halloween-hike-oct-24th/ Friends of Mirror Lake State Park meeting on Wednesday. (May 6th) Meet at the park’s main office at 6pm.]]> http://mirrorlakewisconsin.com/2009/05/04/friends-of-mirror/ If you’ve never tried let me tell you right now it’s almost impossible to get Google to correct listing mistakes.  One such mistake is the phone number Google displays for Mirror Lake State Park with the map.  The phone number is listed as 254-3333 which is WRONG… THE CORRECT PHONE NUMBER IS 254-2333.   What’s more [...]]]> http://mirrorlakewisconsin.com/2009/04/28/left-swinging/ I just had an email come from Jan Primus who is the President of the Friends of Mirror Lake State Park reminding everyone that this Saturday night is the annual Candlelight Hike & Ski at Mirror Lake.  It looks like daytime temperatures may get close to 40f which is much more agreeable that it has [...]]]> http://mirrorlakewisconsin.com/2009/02/04/candlelight-hike-ski-this-saturday/ Finally got a chance to sit down and get a few updates done here on the Mirror Lake State Park guide.  So here’s what’s new. . . First I’ve added a couple new photo galleries; Mirror Lake by Kayak, and Candleight Hike.  Both galleries show you some different views of the park that you may [...]]]> http://mirrorlakewisconsin.com/2009/01/23/new-stuff/