Wisconsin Camping Trip Scrapbook Cover Page with Map

This summer our family took a 10 day/9 night camping trip to northern Wisconsin. We stayed at 3 different campgrounds for 3 nights each, and from those campgrounds we toured different areas of the state. It was kind of a camping trip and road trip all in one! We had a great trip and visited several State and National Parks and trails. I began scrapbooking it as soon as we got home and started with a cover page. I wanted to include an interesting map of the state to show where we went.

 

 

After finding a suitable map online, I printed it out and began to lay out the page, adding 3 polaroid frames down the side and debated whether to put pictures or text in the boxes. I went with text and decided to label each frame with the 3 campgrounds we stayed at, and then listed some of the things we saw and did in that area. 

 

 

On the map itself, I used small banner tags to label the State and National Parks we camped at or visited along the way, and used metallic brads to mark the locations on the map. I also added some larger metallic brads to the corners of the map to frame it out, and added a banner at the top that mimicked the look of the smaller tags on the map.

 

 

 

Here it the final layout - thanks for looking!

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Mountain Biking on the Badger State Trail

The second trail we rode this year as a family was the Badger State Trail. We drove to the trailhead in Belleville, and biked the few miles to the Stewart Tunnel. Several years ago we biked this part of the trail, but enjoyed it so much we decided to go back and do it again.

It is a straight, flat trail that has just a slight uphill grade as you go south. After just a couple of miles you approach the train tunnel. 

The tunnel is dark and a little eerie! Since you can't see the other end of the tunnel when you enter, flashlights are required as is walking your bike through. After the tunnel we continued down the trail a bit, then turned around to bike back to our vehicle, once again going through the tunnel. 

For these layouts, I again used a paper collection called "Murphy's Square" by The Paper Studio. I also used this on the CamRock Trail Page, and continued to use this for additional biking pages. Although it's not necessarily biking or nature themed paper, I liked the little bit rustic look and the colors lend themselves to an outdoorsy page. I've found that biking themed scrapbook supplies can be hard to come by, and it's often just adding little details like the gears that can make it theme specific.

I accented the page with some journaling cards by We R Memory Keepers Grayson Collection, some metal gear embellishments also by The Paper Studio, and some arrows created with paper punches or cut by hand.

Here are the final 4 layouts:

Thanks so much for looking! Our next biking trail is the Glacial Drumlin Trail.

Custer State Park Entrance Scrapbook Page

We arrived at Custer State Park in the early afternoon, and spent a couple hours driving around the park an heading toward our hotel. We entered the park at the south entrance, and out hotel was at the far north point in the park.

We stopped at the south entrance for our sign photo, then continued to drive and spot wildlife along the way. Custer is a big park and it took some time to get our bearings and a learn the road system and where things were. 

We arrived at our hotel, the Sylvan Lake Lodge and were able to check in and check out our room. Sylvan Lake Lodge is just beautiful and we were so happy to be able to stay within the park. The lodge borders Sylvan Lake, which has a short hiking trail around it, and is near the trailhead for several trails other popular trails. It was a perfect home base for us for 3 days.

I created three layouts for this park of the park - 1 of the park entrance and 2 at the lodge. I included a park map (that I printed at home), and a brochure from the park.

Our first hike in Custer was to hike the Sylvan Lake Trail, which we went to next!