When the glacier barely misses you
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Alternate thread title "midwest...not so flat after all!"
I recently came across this term "driftless area" that describes southwest Wisconsin and southeast Minnesota, among other areas. Interesting geology/topography since basically the glacier didn't carve the living crap out of the area so it has much more dynamic geographic features (hills, bluffs, etc) than the northern parts of Wisconsin and Minnesota that are flatter (albeit with tens of thousands of lakes). Read the first two sections, I love this stuff.
Reminds me of when I went down the wiki/youtube rabbit hole of the wanna-be super volcano (and continent split) that was attempted millions of years ago under the current location of Lake Superior (etc) resulting in the great lakes and other cool features.
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In 2021 when we moved from Virginia to Minnesota, my wife/kids flew and I drove the car up. I remember very clearly when we crossed into Wisconsin and being enveloped, for the first time since Pennsylvania, by tall pines and other green/farm vistas.
@89th you could hike the Ice Age Trail, which (kind of) follows the edge of the last glacier in Wisconsin. It would be fun!! ~1000 miles in total.
