Two glaciers crashed into each other in Wisconsin and left 22,000 wild acres behind

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Where the ice age still shows itself

Drive west out of Milwaukee and the flat farmland starts to buckle. Hills rise.

Lakes appear in round pockets. You’ve reached the Southern Unit of the Kettle Moraine State Forest, more than 22,000 acres of glacier-carved land that draws well over a million people a year.

The forest runs 30 miles long, from the village of Dousman almost to Whitewater…

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