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An entry to a nearly mile-long railroad tunnel that must be navigated to ride the Elroy-Sparta State Trail bike path.
Steve Johnson / Chicago Tribune
An entry to a nearly mile-long railroad tunnel that must be navigated to ride the Elroy-Sparta State Trail bike path.
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The ice masses that scraped the land and deposited silt, clay and gravel to flatten much of the Midwest missed Wisconsin’s Driftless Area, which did not get the ice age’s “drift,” the term for the earthy bits that glaciers redistribute.