Waushara County Chapter

The Ice Age Trail corridor in Waushara County courses through a complicated end moraine zone. All of the moraines along the Trail route in the county were deposited during the late Wisconsin Glaciation, most of them after the Green Bay Lobe reached its maximum extent about 15,000 years ago. As the ice sheet retreated in sort of a "two steps back, one step forward" fashion, it deposited successive moraines. These moraines are non-continuous—broken by areas of pitted outwash and channels cut by westward torrents of glacial meltwater.

The Trail passes through the Chaffee Creek and Mecan River state fishery areas and the Greenwood State Wildlife Area. These public lands protect a wide range of plant communities, including wetlands and globally rare oak and pine barrens.