Grant River CG (Mississippi River COE), Potosi, WI

Date of Stay:  Thursday July 21 – Sunday July 24, 2016 (3 nights)

Rate:  $10/night (Access Pass discount)

Website:  Grant River CG
   3990 Park Lane (42*39'34"N, 90*42'35"W)
   Potosi, WI 53820
   563-582-0881

Description:  Located right on the banks of the Mississippi River in the south west tip of Wisconsin.  There are about 60 camp sites.  We stayed on site 25 only 100 yards or so from the train tracks which were annoying very active day and night.  All sites have 50A with water spigots spread throughout the park.  No water fill at the dump station however.  Most sites, ours included, have a concrete parking pad with a nicely maintained picnic table and gravel patio.  Enough shade trees but our site was satellite friendly.  Playground for the kids and nice boat launch onto the Mississippi which looks to be about a mile wide here.  Several sites were empty all weekend.

Trash and Recycle:  Dumpster near the exit with a recycle bin for drink cans only.

Activities:  Gin had just gotten a new motor for her bike so we rode around in the cg a little bit.  A couple of bad storms came through while we were here so we pulled all our awnings in.  This was our first stop without T&D so it was quiet.  The trains were rather annoying though.  There were probably 8 or 9 per hour much of the day and 2 or 3 per hour all night.  To get away from the trains one day, we rode in to the nearby town of Dickeyville for lunch at Katina’s and to visit the Grotto and Shrines at the Holy Ghost Parish.  It was built in the late 1920’s using stone, mortar, and bright colored objects from all over the world to create a hodgepodge of bricka brack mosaics.  It may be a bit tacky looking, but it was still an interesting bit of roadside America.  We then rode over to the nearby Potosi Point Observation Deck.  This point juts out into the river so far that you feel like you are on the water.  Lots of waterlilies and white pelicans.

 

Driving over the Mississippi from Dubuque, IA into the pretty countryside of Wisconsin

 

On site 25… empty around us!

 

Train!… and another train!…  only 100 yards away blowing their horn!

 

Boat launch in the cg                              Gin checking out the waterlilies

 

A couple fishing the day away

 

The Main Grotto at Holy Ghost Parish

 

Walkway in the Gardens                            Christopher Columbus Shrine

 

Bless Us Oh Sacred Heart                           Cemetery behind the church

 

Tree of Life                  Jesus Christ King of Heaven and Earth

 

Mississippi River from Potosi Point                   Waterlilies everywhere

 

Lots of white pelicans at the Point

   

One…  two…  three…  sunset from the cg boat launch