Hardly anyone outside the state realizes that there are more than 1,000 miles of glacial trail in Wisconsin. For more than 60 years, conservationists, landscape architects, and politicians have tried to get a trail built to highlight Wisconsin's stunning glacial features, and unless something changes drastically, it is still decades away from completion. Despite their best efforts and a spike in hiking during the pandemic, the Ice Age National Scenic Trail remains little known. "I don't know why," says John Cannella, the National Trails System program manager for the National Park Service. "Once you get past the Triple Crown- the Appalachian Trail, the Continental Divide, and the Pacific Crest-I think there's less awareness of the National Trails System, that it is bigger than the Interstate Highway System."
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