I live in Price County and run a truck through this country. These are my real stops — where we eat, where we fish, where we camp. No tourist traps.
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Eat & Drink
Lakes & Water
Camp, Dams & Trails
Eat & Drink
Bars, supper clubs and diners where the locals actually eat — Prentice to Medford to Phillips.
Bar & grill in Prentice named for two Navy veterans. Get the pizza or The Captain, their Italian beef. Local crowd, no fuss.
Sailor's Ii
Supper club eating on Highway 8 in Kennan. Smoked ribs, prime rib, and a real salad bar. They rebuilt after a fire and came back better.
John & Heidi’s Happy Daze
Home-style cooking at the Prentice Travel Center. Burgers, hearty dinners, and pie. Where I point anybody passing through Prentice who is hungry.
T & K Kitchen
The little station on Railroad Ave in Prentice. Every small town needs one — this is ours.
Chucks Little Station
Restaurant, bar and motel right on Rib Lake, where a logging camp stood in the 1880s. Friday fish fry with a lake view.
Camp 28
Bowling, homemade pizza and a Friday fish fry in Medford. The spot after the game.
Sports Page Bowl & Grill
Bar & grill at Sunset Haven Resort on Solberg Lake. Lakeside food and a cold drink after a day on the water.
Polish Palace
Supper club on Solberg Lake — prime rib, walleye and a sunset over the water. It used to be the Sunset Lake House; new owners, new name, same view.
Sunset Bay on Solberg
Lakes & Water
The water I fish and photograph — quiet lakes, public landings, and Taylor County's biggest flowage.
Clear water and a beach inside Timm's Hill County Park, with Wisconsin's highest point right over your shoulder. Some of my favorite photos come from here.
Bass Lake
The quiet one in Timm's Hill County Park. Carry-in only, so bring a kayak. Loaded with bass.
Timms Lake
320 acres — musky, walleye, bass, pike and panfish, with two public landings.
Rib Lake
North and South Harper, north of Rib Lake. Quiet bass and panfish water with a public launch off Rustic Road 1.
Harper Lakes
91 acres. Panfish are thick, bass and pike common, and there is a public beach.
Chelsea Lake
Small, quiet lake near Rib Lake — panfish, bass and pike, and hardly ever a crowd.
Stone Lake
2,300-plus acres and Taylor County's biggest water. Famous for bass, and a whole ice-fishing season too.
Miller Dam Flowage (Chequamegon Waters)
Camp, Dams & Trails
National forest and county forest country — beaches, campgrounds and the Ice Age Trail.
National forest country west of Medford: the flowage, a swimming beach, campgrounds, and the Ice Age Trail runs right through. The historic lodge restaurant is a summer stop.
Mondeaux Dam Recreation Area
County forest campground: four wooded sites, a 13-acre non-motorized flowage, and the Camp 8 ATV trails start right there.
