{"id":57,"date":"2024-12-01T21:13:12","date_gmt":"2024-12-02T02:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/sjacob15\/?p=57"},"modified":"2024-12-01T21:13:12","modified_gmt":"2024-12-02T02:13:12","slug":"military-ridge-state-trail-wisconsin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/sjacob15\/2024\/12\/01\/military-ridge-state-trail-wisconsin\/","title":{"rendered":"Military Ridge State Trail, Wisconsin!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">The Military Ridge State Trail is a 40-mile trail that connects the towns of Dodgeville and Madison in Wisconsin. It runs through various terrains like agricultural land, prairies, wetlands, and forests. \u00a0It was originally used as a Native American foot trail and then a wagon trail to connect pioneer forts. In 1880 the trail became a railroad which ran all the way until 1979 when the DNR purchased it. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-text-color has-yellow-color has-alpha-channel-opacity has-yellow-background-color has-background\" \/>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"923\" height=\"1232\" data-id=\"68\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/sjacob15\/files\/2024\/12\/IMG_2504-edited.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-68\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/sjacob15\/files\/2024\/12\/IMG_2504-edited.jpeg 923w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/sjacob15\/files\/2024\/12\/IMG_2504-edited-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/sjacob15\/files\/2024\/12\/IMG_2504-edited-767x1024.jpeg 767w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/sjacob15\/files\/2024\/12\/IMG_2504-edited-768x1025.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 923px) 100vw, 923px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">August <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"868\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"58\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/sjacob15\/files\/2024\/12\/IMG_6667-868x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-58\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/sjacob15\/files\/2024\/12\/IMG_6667-868x1024.jpeg 868w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/sjacob15\/files\/2024\/12\/IMG_6667-254x300.jpeg 254w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/sjacob15\/files\/2024\/12\/IMG_6667-768x906.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/sjacob15\/files\/2024\/12\/IMG_6667-1302x1536.jpeg 1302w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/sjacob15\/files\/2024\/12\/IMG_6667.jpeg 1695w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 868px) 100vw, 868px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">October <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"66\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/sjacob15\/files\/2024\/12\/IMG_2496-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-66\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/sjacob15\/files\/2024\/12\/IMG_2496-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/sjacob15\/files\/2024\/12\/IMG_2496-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/sjacob15\/files\/2024\/12\/IMG_2496-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/sjacob15\/files\/2024\/12\/IMG_2496-rotated.jpeg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">December<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">The seasonal changes are hard to miss. The once green and luscious corridors have turned sad and barren. It&#8217;s pretty hard for me to tell what kind of plants are here as they are all dead! \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-text-color has-yellow-color has-alpha-channel-opacity has-yellow-background-color has-background is-style-wide\" \/>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/sjacob15\/files\/2024\/12\/IMG_2499-1-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-69 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/sjacob15\/files\/2024\/12\/IMG_2499-1-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/sjacob15\/files\/2024\/12\/IMG_2499-1-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/sjacob15\/files\/2024\/12\/IMG_2499-1-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/sjacob15\/files\/2024\/12\/IMG_2499-1-rotated.jpeg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p>This trail is pretty meaningful to me. I spent a lot of my childhood on it as it was my walking route to school! I also have lots of memories of walking my dog with family, trail running with friends, and biking to and from a local ice cream shop in the town over. \u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-text-color has-yellow-color has-alpha-channel-opacity has-yellow-background-color has-background\" \/>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"512\" height=\"134\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/sjacob15\/files\/2024\/12\/unnamed.gif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-70\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">It&#8217;s a place I often forgot I have such easy access to as a section opens right up the street from my house!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Military Ridge State Trail is a 40-mile trail that connects the towns of Dodgeville and Madison in Wisconsin. It runs through various terrains like agricultural land, prairies, wetlands, and forests. \u00a0It was originally used as a Native American foot trail and then a wagon trail to connect pioneer forts. In 1880 the trail became &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/sjacob15\/2024\/12\/01\/military-ridge-state-trail-wisconsin\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Military Ridge State Trail, Wisconsin!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9727,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"sjacob15","author_link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/sjacob15\/author\/sjacob15\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/sjacob15\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/sjacob15\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/sjacob15\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/sjacob15\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9727"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/sjacob15\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/sjacob15\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/sjacob15\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions\/71"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/sjacob15\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/sjacob15\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/sjacob15\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}