Continuing our highway 34 series this takes you east of Madison to
Lake Madison and Johnsons Point Lakeside Access area. Nice little
lakeside area lots of picnic opportunities. There is a boat launch
and lots of spots to fish. Park Hours are as follows: May – Sept
6am to 11pm Oct – April 6am to 9pm. This is a small plastic
container camo’d which will only hold small trade items. Sign the
log and please replace it exactly how you found it.
Information about the Old Dacotah Trail.... Long before the white
man, an indian trail from the sanctuary at Pipestone Quarry to the
"Three Rivers of the Sioux" near Ft. Thompson passed closely by.
The whitemans first road in Dakota, the Ft. Ridgely and south Pass
Wagon Road, forded the James 7 miles North in 1857. The rock ford
and a monument mark the site. December 1862 the "March to Moscow"
relief expedition from Minnesota to Ft. Thompson passed by "Mazeppa
Hill" 2.5 miles NE now called Big Mound. In 1865 the "Big Cheyenne
Wagon Road" Minnesota to Montana crossed the James at Big Mound.