52 parks · 52 weeks · One book

Strike Anywhere

Field Notes from Wisconsin's State Parks

Every Wisconsin state park, A to Z, one a week. I write down what the brochures leave out: the site to book, the trail worth the climb, the trail to skip, and the town for dinner after. Then you write back.

By the first anniversary it's a book, set and printed at Boiling Point. Flip through it before it exists.

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First strike Amnicon Falls Monday, Oct 19 No. 01 of 51 · See the park

Field Notes from Wisconsin's State Parks

Strike
Anywhere

Aaron Berth

Boiling Point Identity Press

How to use this book

One park. One spread. Five words.

Camp: The site I'd fight for.
Hike: The trail worth the climb.
Skip: The one the brochure oversells.
Eat: The town for dinner after.
Stay: If you won't sleep in a tent.

Strike the box when you've been. 52 boxes, one year.

Contents · A to Z

01Amnicon Falls
02Belmont Mound
03Big Bay
04Big Foot Beach
05Blue Mound
06Brunet Island
07Buckhorn
08Campbellsport Drumlins
09Copper Culture
10Copper Falls
11Council Grounds
12Cross Plains
13Devil's Lake
…and 39 more

The route

52 matches. One struck every Monday.

Week 01 · Amnicon Falls

Week 01

Amnicon Falls

Field Notes · Amnicon Falls

Camp
Hike
Skip
Eat
Stay

I struck it on

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Notes about Amnicon Falls? Add them here.

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52 parks. 52 weeks. One guy from Milwaukee who's camped them all, and a few hundred Typeset Rangers who wrote back.

The site to book, the trail to skip, the town for dinner after.

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Week 52 · Fall 2027

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The manifesto

A park a week. A book by year one.

Wisconsin has 52 state parks. A year has 52 weeks. That's not a coincidence, that's a ritual. Every Monday I strike one, A to Z, starting at Amnicon Falls on Oct 19. By the first anniversary the Field Notes become a book, set and printed at Boiling Point, built to sit by the register in every state park gift shop in Wisconsin.

52parks

52weeks

1book

How it works · Thursday pick, Friday tease, Monday strike

One park a weekAlphabetical, all 51 state parks, plus five rec areas riding along as bonus day trips. No skipping the weird ones.
Field NotesCamp, hike, skip, eat, stay. What I'd book, what I'd skip, and where the sun hits.
Typeset RangersYou file your own Field Notes and photos. The best go in the book with your ranger name.
Week 52Close the matchbox. Print the book.

Publishers, buyers and gift shops: if you said "wait, what is this?", I want to talk.Join the Typeset Rangers Talk about the book

The route

1 of 51 struck

Next Monday: Big Bay, Oct 26.

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Every park, in order. Follow along.

Share card: A park a week. A book by year one. Every Wisconsin state park, one a week, written up by Aaron and the Civic Rangers. Dopamine Furnace Creative, @furnace.creative.

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