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Brian D'Ambrosio is the author of Madison For Dads: 101-Dad-Related-Adventures

As any lover of archeology and anthropology would opine, there is a distinctly tingly and chilly feeling that cultivates from deep within when one touches or treks hallowed ground. To pat, smell, and share the infinite earth of our predecessors humbles the ego and re-emphasizes the ephemeral nature of the individual’s existence (hopefully, zapping one with a positively charged bolt of energy).

Natural Bridge State Park

Welcome to Natural Bridge State Park, one of the oldest dated sites of human occupancy in northeastern North America (inhabitant artifacts lead archeologists to estimate earliest human occupation here between 9000 and 8000 B.C.)

Natural Bridge State Park is located in the driftless area of southwestern Wisconsin, a region not glaciated in the last Ice Age. It is home to a sandstone tower, 35 feet high above ground level, slowly carved by the imbalanced dissolving of the mineral deposits that hold sand grains together. The Natural Bridge arch measures 25 feet in width and 15 feet in height on its interior dimensions. Thousands of years of water, frost, wind and gravity erosion, have created the largest natural arch known in the state.