Waupun: Discover Nature, Sculptures and History

Waupun brings together access to nature, art and local history. The city has northern access points to the Horicon Marsh National Wildlife Refuge, as well as the Waupun Sculpture Tour, the Heritage Museum in a 1904 Carnegie library and an annual theater production. This offers different ways to shape a stay: time outdoors, sculptures and exhibitions, or performing arts. If you are looking for a vacation rental in Waupun, you can plan your trip around the experiences that matter most to you.

Experience Nature: Auto Tour, Trails and Boardwalk

The Horicon National Wildlife Refuge Auto Tour and Trails in Waupun includes a three-mile paved auto tour, three hiking trails and a floating boardwalk. The site offers different ways to explore nature: driving on a paved route, walking trails and a boardwalk. The three miles refer to the auto tour; the trails and boardwalk are additional parts of the offering. This lets you include different ways to spend time outdoors in your plans. Check the refuge’s current visitor information before your visit, as operating details may change.

Sculptures and Museum

The Waupun Sculpture Tour lets visitors experience the legacy of Clarence Shaler. The virtual tour is available through the Otocast app. One sculpture with a specific location is “Recording Angel”: it is in the central area of Forest Mound Cemetery on N. Madison Street. Waupun thus offers both a themed way to explore Shaler’s legacy and a named sculpture site in the city.

The Heritage Museum also brings together a distinctive building and a range of exhibition topics. It is housed in a Carnegie library dating from 1904. In its main-floor galleries, the museum presents two permanent exhibitions and one changing exhibition. The semi-permanent exhibition “If The Walls Could Talk” explores the origins of corrections and incarceration in America and Wisconsin. “A Bronze Age,” also semi-permanent, focuses on the business and artistic activities of Clarence Addison Shaler. The exhibitions offer different perspectives: one looks at the beginnings of corrections and incarceration, while the other focuses on business and artistic activities. Together, the museum’s architectural history and its subject matter extend beyond a single chapter of local history.

Theater in Waupun

The Waupun Community Players present an annual production at the Historic City Hall Auditorium. Waupun City Hall and Auditorium was built in 1928. Along with sculptures and exhibitions, theater performances are another cultural experience to consider when planning your trip. If a production is important to your stay, check that year’s dates in advance.

When searching for a vacation rental, the mix of experiences you want may be the deciding factor: would you like to focus on nature, or plan your trip more around art and the museum? A theater production can add another cultural event if its performance date fits your plans.

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