Car Rental Madison - Exploring Madison

Assorted highways and back roads lace up southern Wisconsin, passing over rolling hills and deep dales.

Just near the capital are some charming towns such as New Glarus and Mount Horeb, as well as historic settlements like Little Norway. Nearby, Wisconsin Dells is a picturesque setting for one of the nation’s largest amusement areas, complete with one of the best water parks in the world. Also offered here are some great opportunities for canoeing, camping, hiking, horseback riding, and much more.

Baraboo, 48kms northwest of Madison, is home to the Circus World Museum, featuring an enormous collection of memorabilia and daily performances including an exhilarating old-time circus show. Don’t miss the Al Ringling Theatre, built in 1915 and modelled after the grand opera house at Versailles; it is one of America's prettiest small playhouses.

Five kilometres south of Spring Green, 64kms west of Madison on Highway 14, stand Frank Lloyd Wright's magnificent former residence, Taliesin, and his Hillside Home School. The estate includes the Frank Lloyd Wright Visitor Center, which features displays, a café and a bookstore.

Nearby is the eclectic House on the Rock, built by Alex Jordan on and out of a natural, 18-metre chimney-like rock and containing Jordan's astounding collections of antiques, nickelodeons and pneumatic music machines, miniature circuses, dolls and dollhouses, maritime memorabilia, armour and firearms.

About an hour east of Madison on the western shore of Lake Michigan is Milwaukee, Wisconsin’s largest city, home to the Miller Brewing Company and full of great waterfront bars.