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title: "Top 10 Things To Do in Madison, Wisconsin (2026 Guide) | Wimup"
description: "The 10 best things to do in Madison, Wisconsin, ranked: the granite dome of the State Capitol, the Saturday market on the Square, the Memorial Union Terrace, Olbrich and the Arboretum."
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updated: 2026-10-18
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# Top 10 Things To Do in Madison

Madison, United States · North America · By Wimup Editorial, 14 min read

Madison is four miles wide at the point that matters. The Capitol, the university, the market and most of the bars sit on an isthmus barely half a mile across, which is why the city reads as far smaller than its 285,000 people. It is a state capital and a Big Ten campus in the same square mile, and the two rarely stop arguing.

## Quick answer

The best things to do in Madison are the free tour of the Wisconsin State Capitol, the Saturday farmers market that circles it, an afternoon on the Memorial Union Terrace, Olbrich Botanical Gardens and its Thai Pavilion, and a walk out to the end of Picnic Point. Two days covers the isthmus. Everything downtown sits within a mile of the Capitol, because state law says nothing nearby may stand taller than it.

## Quick facts

- **Best months:** May · Jun · Sep
- **Ideal length:** 2 days
- **Budget per day:** $140–220
- **Language:** English
- **Getting around:** On foot, by bike, by bus
- **Tourism board:** [Official site](https://www.visitmadison.com/?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)

## The 10 best things to do in Madison

### 1. Tour the Wisconsin State Capitol

Landmark · 2 E Main St, Madison

The building at the centre of the isthmus is the fifth Wisconsin capitol, finished in 1917 and topped by the only granite dome in the United States. Free guided tours leave from the ground-floor desk and run 45 to 55 minutes. The seasonal observation deck explains the city plan in one look: two lakes, one ridge of streets.

- **Time:** 1 hr
- **Cost:** Free
- **Best at:** Late morning
- **Tip:** Tours run hourly at 9, 10 and 11am and 1, 2 and 3pm Monday to Saturday, and at 1, 2 and 3pm on Sundays

Links: [Website](https://tours.wisconsin.gov/?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)

### 2. Shop the Dane County Farmers' Market on the Square

Market · Capitol Square, Madison

On Saturday mornings the ring of pavement around the Capitol becomes the largest producer-only farmers market in the country, which means every stallholder grew or made what they are selling. The crowd moves counter-clockwise by unspoken agreement and it is a bad idea to fight it. Buy cheese curds early, while they still squeak.

- **Time:** 1.5 hr
- **Cost:** Free to browse
- **Best at:** Before 9am on a Saturday
- **Tip:** The stalls face outward, so walk the outer ring and stay with the flow of traffic

Links: [Website](https://dcfm.org/?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)

### 3. Take a chair on the Memorial Union Terrace

Waterfront · 800 Langdon St, Madison

The student union opens onto a stone terrace on the Lake Mendota shore, scattered with sunburst chairs in green, orange and yellow that are the closest thing Madison has to a civic symbol. Anyone can sit down. Beer at the counter, live music most summer evenings. The single best hour in the city, and it costs nothing.

- **Time:** 2 hr
- **Cost:** Free to sit
- **Best at:** An hour before sunset
- **Tip:** The chairs come out with the warm weather, so from late autumn the action moves indoors to the Rathskeller

Links: [Website](https://union.wisc.edu/visit/terrace-at-the-memorial-union/?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)

### 4. Walk the Thai Pavilion at Olbrich Botanical Gardens

Gardens · 3330 Atwood Ave, Madison

Sixteen acres of outdoor display gardens on the north shore of Lake Monona, five miles east of downtown, and free to walk. The centrepiece is the Royal Thai Pavilion, the only one anywhere outside Thailand set in a garden built around it. The Bolz Conservatory beside it is the reason to come in February.

- **Time:** 1.5 hr
- **Cost:** Outdoor gardens free, conservatory $6
- **Best at:** Morning, before the tour groups
- **Tip:** Conservatory admission is free to everyone on Wednesdays and Saturdays from 10am to noon

Links: [Website](https://www.olbrich.org/?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)

### 5. Stand on Frank Lloyd Wright's rooftop at Monona Terrace

Architecture · 1 John Nolen Dr, Madison

Wright proposed a civic building on this exact stretch of shoreline in 1938. The argument ran for most of the next sixty years, and the building finally opened in 1997, thirty-eight years after his death. The rooftop gardens are open to anyone in decent weather, with the lake on one side and the Capitol on the other.

- **Time:** 45 min
- **Cost:** Rooftop free, tour $5
- **Best at:** Sunrise over the lake
- **Tip:** The rooftop is weather-dependent and closes for private events, so check before making the walk down John Nolen Drive

Links: [Website](https://www.mononaterrace.com/?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)

### 6. Walk State Street end to end

Street · State St, Madison

Eight blocks of bookshops, record shops, bars and buskers running from the Capitol to the university library mall, closed to private cars for decades. It is the seam where the state government end of town meets the campus end, and the change in the crowd is the clearest read on how Madison works. MMoCA sits halfway along, free.

- **Time:** 1 hr
- **Cost:** Free
- **Best at:** Early evening
- **Tip:** Start at the Capitol end and finish at Library Mall, where the food carts set up at lunchtime on weekdays

Links: [Website](https://visitdowntownmadison.com/?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)

### 7. Hike the prairies of the UW–Madison Arboretum

Nature · 1207 Seminole Hwy, Madison

This is where ecological restoration was invented. Aldo Leopold and his colleagues began replanting worn-out farmland here in the 1930s, and Curtis Prairie is the oldest restored prairie on earth. Twenty miles of walking trails through prairie, savanna and wetland, free. Come in late summer when the prairie is above head height.

- **Time:** 2 hr
- **Cost:** Free
- **Best at:** August, for the tall prairie
- **Tip:** Trails are unpaved and the prairie holds water after rain, so this is a boots walk rather than a stroll

Links: [Website](https://arboretum.wisc.edu/?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)

### 8. Walk out to the tip of Picnic Point

Nature · 2000 University Bay Dr, Madison

A wooded peninsula almost a mile long reaching into Lake Mendota from the campus shore, and the best view of the skyline anyone gets for free: the Capitol dome and the downtown ridge lined up across the water. Two miles there and back, flat the whole way. Fire rings at the point are first come, first served.

- **Time:** 1.5 hr
- **Cost:** Free
- **Best at:** Sunrise or the last hour of light
- **Tip:** Parking at the entrance is metered university parking, so cycling or walking in from the Terrace is simpler

Links: [Website](https://lakeshorepreserve.wisc.edu/visit/places/picnic-point/?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)

### 9. Spend a morning at Henry Vilas Zoo

Zoo · 702 S Randall Ave, Madison

Free, and free by contract: when the Vilas family gave the land in 1904 they made permanent free admission a condition of the gift. More than 650 animals live here, including tigers, camels and penguins, on a compact site beside Lake Wingra that a family can do properly in two hours. Vilas Park is next door.

- **Time:** 2 hr
- **Cost:** Free
- **Best at:** Opening time, when the animals are active
- **Tip:** Parking on Randall Avenue fills fast on summer weekends, so arrive early or come in along the Wingra path

Links: [Website](https://www.henryvilaszoo.gov/?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)

### 10. Feel Camp Randall jump on a Badgers Saturday

Stadium · 1440 Monroe St, Madison

Wisconsin has played football on this ground since 1917, which makes Camp Randall one of the oldest stadiums in college football, and the site was a Civil War training camp before that. Between the third and fourth quarters roughly eighty thousand people jump at once, hard enough to register on the structure.

- **Time:** 4 hr
- **Cost:** Ticketed
- **Best at:** A home Saturday, September to November
- **Tip:** The stadium is a twenty-minute walk from the Capitol, and on game days that is faster than driving

## Best restaurants in Madison

Five kitchens, from the farm-to-table room that started it to a supper club that never changed.

1. **L'Etoile** (Farm to table · Capitol Square): The room that taught the Midwest to cook from its own farms, opened by Odessa Piper in 1976 and now run by Tory Miller. Both have won a James Beard award. [Website](https://www.letoile-restaurant.com/?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)
2. **Graze** (Gastropub · Capitol Square): L'Etoile's ground-floor sibling in the same building, a glass-walled gastropub with the best view of the Capitol of any table in the city. It takes walk-ins.
3. **Fairchild** (New American · Monroe Street): Itaru Nagano and Andrew Kroeger won the 2023 James Beard award for Best Chef: Midwest cooking here. The menu is short and runs on what growers bring in.
4. **Tornado Steak House** (Supper club · Hamilton Street): A Wisconsin supper club in the strict sense: low light, red leather, relish tray, brandy old fashioneds and steak cut in house. Dinner only, and book. [Website](https://www.tornadosteakhouse.com/?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)
5. **The Old Fashioned** (Wisconsin tavern · Capitol Square): A tavern built as an argument for Wisconsin: fifty state beers on tap, hand-muddled brandy old fashioneds and beer-battered curds. A block off the Capitol, and busy. [Website](https://theoldfashioned.com/?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)

## Best bars & breweries in Madison

Five rooms, from the state's oldest bar to a taproom on the far east side.

1. **Great Dane Pub & Brewing Co.** (Brewpub · Doty Street): Madison's original brewpub, in the old Fess Hotel a block from the Capitol, with a basement billiards room and a beer garden. Most visitors have their first pint here.
2. **Working Draft Beer Company** (Taproom · East Wilson Street): A taproom on East Wilson with a rotating board that leans hazy and sour, walkable from the isthmus. The beer moves fast enough that the list is rarely the same.
3. **Karben4 Brewing** (Brewery taproom · Kinsman Boulevard): The brewery behind Fantasy Factory, the amber ale on tap almost everywhere in this city. The taproom is out on the north east side, so it is a drive or a bus ride. [Website](https://www.karben4.com/?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)
4. **The Malt House** (Beer bar · East Washington Avenue): A craft beer bar on East Washington with 150 beers, 80 whiskeys and a Civil War era bar that claims to be the oldest in Madison. No kitchen, so people order in. [Website](http://malthousetavern.com/?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)
5. **One Barrel Brewing Co.** (Neighbourhood brewery · Atwood Avenue): A neighbourhood brewery on Atwood Avenue, the size of a decent living room. The right last stop after Olbrich, ten minutes down the same street.

## Best museums in Madison

Three collections, all free, and one of them is currently rehanging everything it owns.

1. **Chazen Museum of Art** (University art museum · University Avenue): The university's art museum, and the second largest collection in Wisconsin, free to enter. It closed in May 2026 for a full reinstallation, so check before planning. [Website](https://chazen.wisc.edu/?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)
2. **Madison Museum of Contemporary Art** (Contemporary art, free · State Street): Cesar Pelli designed the glass building halfway down State Street, and admission is free. The rooftop sculpture garden is the part people remember. [Website](https://www.mmoca.org/?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)
3. **Wisconsin Veterans Museum** (State museum, free · Capitol Square): A state museum on the Capitol Square covering Wisconsin service from the Civil War onward, built around oral histories rather than hardware, and free. [Website](https://wisvetsmuseum.com/?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)

## Lakes, trails and open water in Madison

Four ways to use the two lakes the city is built between.

1. **Lake Monona Loop** (12.3 miles, paved · Around Lake Monona): A signed 12.3-mile circuit of the smaller lake on paths and quiet streets, flat enough to ride on a rented bike in two hours. The classic orientation lap.
2. **Capital City State Trail** (17 miles, state trail · South shore): Seventeen miles of asphalt trail along the Lake Monona shoreline, passing under Monona Terrace. One stretch is closed for construction into 2027, so check the detour.
3. **Tenney Park** (City park and lock · Tenney-Lapham): Where the Yahara River leaves Lake Mendota, with a lock and stone bridges that look imported from somewhere older. A swimming beach in summer, a skating rink in winter.
4. **James Madison Park** (Beach and boat launch · Gorham Street): The downtown swimming beach, on the Lake Mendota shore three blocks off the Square. The easiest place in the city to get into a lake without a plan.

## Madison with kids

Four stops that hold a child for longer than an hour.

1. **Madison Children's Museum** (Ages 0 to 12 · Hamilton Street): Four floors of build-it, climb-it exhibits a block from the Capitol, with a rooftop that has chickens on it. Free to all on Thursday evenings. [Website](https://madisonchildrensmuseum.org/?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)
2. **UW–Madison Geology Museum** (Free, university museum · West Dayton Street): Free, small and unreasonably good: mounted dinosaurs, a mastodon, meteorites and a fluorescent mineral room that gets an audible reaction. In Weeks Hall. [Website](https://museum.geoscience.wisc.edu/?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)
3. **Babcock Dairy Store** (Campus ice cream · Linden Drive): The university has made its own ice cream on campus since 1951, and the counter at Babcock Hall sells it by the scoop. A working teaching facility, not a gift shop. [Website](https://babcockdairystore.wisc.edu/?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)
4. **Vilas Park** (Playground and beach · Vilas): The park wrapped around the free zoo, with a playground, a shallow Lake Wingra beach and enough shade to sit out an afternoon.

## Best neighborhoods in Madison

Five districts off the Square, each a short walk or a shorter bike ride.

1. **Williamson-Marquette** (Independent, walkable · Near east side): Known universally as Willy Street. Ten blocks of independent restaurants, co-ops, bars and music venues east of the Capitol. The most stubbornly itself part of the city.
2. **Schenk-Atwood** (Arts and gardens · East side): Water on three sides and a bike path on the fourth. Atwood Avenue runs through the middle with the Barrymore Theatre, and Olbrich sits at the far end.
3. **Monroe Street** (Shops and bakeries · Dudgeon-Monroe): A mile and a half of shops, bakeries and restaurants running southwest from Camp Randall between the Arboretum and Lake Wingra. The better breakfast.
4. **Tenney-Lapham** (Residential, parks · Isthmus): The strip of isthmus between Willy Street and Lake Mendota, residential and low-rise. Where people stay to walk to the Capitol without paying Square rates.
5. **Hilldale** (Shopping and hotels · West side): West of campus, built around the shopping centre, with parks either side and easy access to the Mendota shore. The practical end of town: hotels, parking, cinema.

## Best day trips from Madison

Six trips, none of them more than an hour and a half from the Square.

1. **New Glarus** (30 minutes southwest · Green County): A Swiss settlement half an hour southwest, and home of New Glarus Brewing, whose beer is sold only inside Wisconsin. The Hilltop brewery pours what it makes.
2. **Devil's Lake State Park** (40 miles north · Baraboo): Forty miles north, and the busiest state park in Wisconsin for good reason: a spring-fed lake held between 500-foot quartzite bluffs. Go on a weekday.
3. **Taliesin, Spring Green** (45 minutes west · Spring Green): Frank Lloyd Wright's own home, studio, farm and burial place, forty-five minutes west in the valley he grew up in. Tours run May through October and must be booked.
4. **Cave of the Mounds** (25 minutes west · Blue Mounds): A National Natural Landmark in the limestone west of the city, found by accident during quarry blasting in 1939. The reliable rainy-day answer with children.
5. **Mount Horeb** (35 minutes west · Trollway): The self-declared Troll Capital of the World, thirty-five minutes west, where a Norwegian heritage joke has hardened into a street of hand-carved wooden trolls.
6. **Wisconsin Dells** (1 hour north · Wisconsin River): An hour north, where the river cuts through sandstone gorges. The boat trips are the reason to come; the waterpark strip is a separate decision entirely.

## Festivals & annual events in Madison (2026)

- **Frozen Assets Festival** (Feb): A festival on the frozen surface of Lake Mendota: pond hockey, snowshoeing, free skating and hot chocolate. Free to attend.
- **Wisconsin Film Festival** (Apr): Run by the university across venues on and off campus, with more than 140 documentary, international and short features.
- **Dane County Farmers' Market opening day** (Apr): The Saturday market returns to the Capitol Square in April and runs to mid-November, 6:15am to 1:45pm.
- **Brat Fest** (May): Three days of bratwurst and live music at the Alliant Energy Center over Memorial Day weekend, run as a charity fundraiser.
- **Concerts on the Square** (Jun): The Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra plays free Wednesday concerts on the Capitol lawn through midsummer. Bring a blanket.
- **Art Fair on the Square** (Jul): MMoCA takes over the Capitol Square with several hundred exhibiting artists, displacing the farmers market that Saturday.
- **Taste of Madison** (Sep): The Square fills with the city's restaurants over Labor Day weekend. Entry is free and the proceeds go to local charities.
- **Ironman Wisconsin** (Sep): A full-distance triathlon that swims two loops of Lake Monona and finishes past the Capitol. Roads close most of the day.

## Must-try dishes in Madison, Wisconsin

- **Fried cheese curds**: Fresh curds, battered and fried. The test is whether they squeak against your teeth before cooking.
- **Brandy old fashioned**: Wisconsin uses brandy instead of whiskey, muddled with orange and cherry and topped with soda.
- **Bratwurst**: Grilled, often simmered in beer and onions first, served on a hard roll. The tailgates are the real version.
- **Friday fish fry**: Beer-battered cod or perch, potato pancake, coleslaw and rye bread, served every Friday night statewide.
- **Frozen custard**: Denser and richer than ice cream, made with egg yolk and served fresh from the machine.
- **Babcock ice cream**: Made on campus at the oldest university dairy building in the country, and sold at the Memorial Union.
- **Butter burger**: A griddled burger finished with a pat of butter on the bun, which is standard practice across Wisconsin.
- **Beer cheese soup**: Sharp cheddar and lager thickened into a soup, usually served with popcorn floated on top.

## Madison transport & airports

- **Dane County Regional Airport** (MSN): Madison's airport sits on the northeast side, about six miles from the Capitol, with domestic connections and no scheduled long-haul. Fifteen minutes downtown outside peak. [Website](https://danecountyregionalairport.com/?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)
- **Metro Transit** (Rapid Route A): The city bus network, with a bus rapid transit line running east to west across the isthmus and through campus. BRT vehicles take no cash, so buy before boarding. [Website](https://www.cityofmadison.com/?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)
- **Buses to Chicago** (Van Galder): There is no passenger rail to Madison, so the intercity link is the coach. Van Galder runs daily from campus and downtown to O'Hare and to Chicago Union Station.
- **On foot and by bike** (BCycle): The isthmus is about half a mile wide, so almost everything here is walkable from the Square. BCycle docks sit across downtown and campus, and two paths carry you out.

## Madison at a glance

- **Country:** United States
- **Region:** Wisconsin (Dane County)
- **Population:** About 285,000 (city, 2024 estimate)
- **Founded:** 1836, chosen as territorial capital
- **Nickname:** Mad City
- **Language:** English
- **Currency:** US dollar (USD)
- **Time zone:** UTC-6 (UTC-5 in summer)
- **Calling code:** +1 608
- **Airports:** Dane County Regional (MSN)
- **Power:** 120V, type A/B plugs
- **Emergency:** 911

## Interesting facts

- Madison is built on an isthmus barely half a mile wide between Lake Mendota and Lake Monona, which is why the centre is walkable.
- The Capitol wears the only granite dome in the United States, and state law bars any building within a mile from rising above it.
- Olbrich's Royal Thai Pavilion is the only one anywhere outside Thailand with a garden built around it, and it was assembled without nails.
- Henry Vilas Zoo has never charged admission and legally cannot: free access was a condition of the 1904 gift of the land.
- Frank Lloyd Wright proposed Monona Terrace in 1938. It opened in 1997, thirty-eight years after he died.

## Madison travel FAQ

### How many days do you need in Madison?

Two. Day one is the isthmus: the Capitol tour, the Square, State Street and an afternoon on the Memorial Union Terrace, finishing with dinner off Willy Street. Day two goes east to Olbrich and the Lake Monona shore, or west to the Arboretum and Picnic Point. A third day buys you New Glarus or Devil's Lake.

### What is the best time of year to visit Madison?

May to September, and September is the sweet spot: the lakes are still warm, the farmers market is at full strength and the football season has started. July averages around 82F. January averages about 27F and the lakes freeze hard enough to walk on, which is its own reason to come.

### Do you need a car in Madison?

Not for this guide. Everything on the top ten except Olbrich is within walking distance of the Capitol or a short bus ride, and Metro Transit's rapid line crosses the isthmus. You want a car for the day trips, and downtown parking is metered and scarce, so pick up a rental the morning you leave town rather than keeping one all week.

### Is the Wisconsin State Capitol free to visit?

Yes, and so are the guided tours. The building is open to the public on weekdays from 8am to 6pm and at weekends and on holidays from 8am to 4pm. Tours leave hourly from the information desk and take 45 to 55 minutes. The sixth-floor museum and the outdoor observation deck open seasonally.

### What should you eat in Madison?

Fried cheese curds and a brandy old fashioned on the first night, ideally in the same room. Then a Friday fish fry, a bratwurst, and Babcock ice cream made on the university campus. If you are in town on a Saturday, buy fresh curds at the market before nine and eat them in the street.

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## Sources

- [Madison tourism board](https://www.visitmadison.com/?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)
- [Tour the Wisconsin State Capitol (official site)](https://tours.wisconsin.gov/?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)
- [Shop the Dane County Farmers' Market on the Square (official site)](https://dcfm.org/?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)
- [Take a chair on the Memorial Union Terrace (official site)](https://union.wisc.edu/visit/terrace-at-the-memorial-union/?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)
- [Walk the Thai Pavilion at Olbrich Botanical Gardens (official site)](https://www.olbrich.org/?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)
- [Stand on Frank Lloyd Wright's rooftop at Monona Terrace (official site)](https://www.mononaterrace.com/?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)
- [Walk State Street end to end (official site)](https://visitdowntownmadison.com/?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)
- [Hike the prairies of the UW–Madison Arboretum (official site)](https://arboretum.wisc.edu/?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)
- [Walk out to the tip of Picnic Point (official site)](https://lakeshorepreserve.wisc.edu/visit/places/picnic-point/?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)
- [Spend a morning at Henry Vilas Zoo (official site)](https://www.henryvilaszoo.gov/?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)
- [L'Etoile (official site)](https://www.letoile-restaurant.com/?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)
- [Tornado Steak House (official site)](https://www.tornadosteakhouse.com/?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)
- [The Old Fashioned (official site)](https://theoldfashioned.com/?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)
- [Karben4 Brewing (official site)](https://www.karben4.com/?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)
- [The Malt House (official site)](http://malthousetavern.com/?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)
- [Chazen Museum of Art (official site)](https://chazen.wisc.edu/?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)
- [Madison Museum of Contemporary Art (official site)](https://www.mmoca.org/?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)
- [Wisconsin Veterans Museum (official site)](https://wisvetsmuseum.com/?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)
- [Madison Children's Museum (official site)](https://madisonchildrensmuseum.org/?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)
- [UW–Madison Geology Museum (official site)](https://museum.geoscience.wisc.edu/?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)
- [Babcock Dairy Store (official site)](https://babcockdairystore.wisc.edu/?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)
- [Dane County Regional Airport (official site)](https://danecountyregionalairport.com/?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)
- [Metro Transit (official site)](https://www.cityofmadison.com/?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)
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