High Cliff State Park is a 1187 acre Wisconsin state park near Sherwood, Wisconsin. It is the only state-owned recreation area located on Lake Winnebago. The park got its name from cliffs of the Niagara Escarpment, a land formation east of the shore of Lake Winnebago that stretches north through northeast Wisconsin, Upper Michigan, and Ontario to Niagara Falls and New York State. A new Master Plan for the park created in 2013 aims to nearly double the size of the park, to add new amenities, and expand conservation efforts.

Activities and amenities

Effigy mounds

The effigy mounds at the top of the escarpment have led to a small part of the park being added to the National Register of Historic Places, listed as High Cliff Mounds. A trail meanders through six long-tailed mounds and several conical mounds. Out of the original 30 effigy mounds in High Cliff, only nine remain, among them a panther mound that reaches 285 feet in length, as well as mounds presenting a bird and one that was most likely a bear. The mounds are consistent with other mound groups found at the peak of the Niagara Escarpment along the eastern shore of Lake Winnebago, including the Calumet County Park Group.

Images

<Gallery> File:HighCliffStateParkWisconsinSign.jpg|The welcome sign for High Cliff State Park in [Sherwood, Wisconsin](https://bliptext.com/articles/sherwood-wisconsin), in 2007 File:LakeWinnebagoNorthHighCliffStateParkObservationTower.jpg|The north end of [Lake Winnebago](https://bliptext.com/articles/lake-winnebago) taken from the observation tower at High Cliff State Park in [Sherwood, Wisconsin](https://bliptext.com/articles/sherwood-wisconsin) File:SherwoodWisconsinSWFromEscarpment.jpg|Looking west at the southwest corner of [Sherwood, Wisconsin](https://bliptext.com/articles/sherwood-wisconsin) and the north tip of [Lake Winnebago](https://bliptext.com/articles/lake-winnebago) taken from the observation tower at High Cliff State Park in [Sherwood, Wisconsin](https://bliptext.com/articles/sherwood-wisconsin) File:Wisconsin's High Cliff State Park (2008).jpg|View of Wisconsin's High Cliff State Park File:HighCliffStateParkPostOffice.jpg|The general store and post office for High Cliff State Park near [Sherwood, Wisconsin](https://bliptext.com/articles/sherwood-wisconsin) File:High Cliff State Park The Ledge Cliff.JPG|View of the cliff faces File:High Cliff State Park The Ledge Outcrop.JPG|View of the outcrop ontop of the bluff </Gallery>