Edna Taylor Conservation Park 2019 083
Edna Taylor Conservation Park -- located off Monona Drive and Femrite Drive in southeast Madison, next to Monona -- sits largely hidden from surrounding residential housing and commercial development. The park, covering nearly 60 acres, features a glacial drumlin rising above marshland, with three out-and-back hiking loops, a spring, ponds, oak stands, and Native American effigy mounds.
Neighboring Glendale School and Aldo Leopold Nature Center use the park for environmental education. Within the park are six linear Indian effigy mounds and one panther-shaped mound, all listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Edna Taylor was a writer, teacher and dairy farmer who sold 37 of her 98 acres to Madison to help create the conservancy park that bears her name.
Images by Kerry G. Hill, October 16, 2019. Please don't use any of these images on websites, blogs or other media without my explicit permission. © All rights reserved.
Edna Taylor Conservation Park 2019 083
Edna Taylor Conservation Park -- located off Monona Drive and Femrite Drive in southeast Madison, next to Monona -- sits largely hidden from surrounding residential housing and commercial development. The park, covering nearly 60 acres, features a glacial drumlin rising above marshland, with three out-and-back hiking loops, a spring, ponds, oak stands, and Native American effigy mounds.
Neighboring Glendale School and Aldo Leopold Nature Center use the park for environmental education. Within the park are six linear Indian effigy mounds and one panther-shaped mound, all listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Edna Taylor was a writer, teacher and dairy farmer who sold 37 of her 98 acres to Madison to help create the conservancy park that bears her name.
Images by Kerry G. Hill, October 16, 2019. Please don't use any of these images on websites, blogs or other media without my explicit permission. © All rights reserved.