Hixon Forest
Selected Articles from the La Crosse Tribune newspaper

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Hixon Forest

Hixon Forest traces it roots to the founding of Grandad Bluff as a park. It was donated to the city in 1912 as a park.  This collection of articles highlights the beginning of the trail system, a cooperative effort of the Greater La Crosse Area Chamber of Commerce and La Crosse Park & Recreation Department, to the new “This is Not a Trail” (TNT) mountain bike trail that leads through Hixon Forest connecting on top of Grandad Bluff to the Human Powered Trail. Some land acquisitions and the beginning of the Nature Center are also highlighted.

 

Date

Page

Title of Article

For older articles, see Grandad Bluff

Paper Size& Orientation
for Printing

18 July 1948 3 Marksmanship, Inc., Begins Building Range in Hixon Forest for variety of activities. portrait 8½" x 11"
14 Dec 1975 50 Bicentennial trails open Hixon Forest landscape 8½" x 11"
26 Mar 1976 3 Hixon Forest will get former federal facility portrait 8½" x 11"
8 Oct 1976 6 Dedication to open Hixon Forest trails  portrait 8½" x 14" legal
8 Oct 1976 6 Dedication to open Hixon Forest trails (map) portrait 8½" x 14" legal
8 Oct 1976 6 Dedication to open Hixon Forest trails (text) portrait 8½" x 14" legal
17 Dec 1978 37 City areas can be toured on skis landscape 8½" x 11" 
24 May 1981 39 Hixon Forest gets well landscape 8½" x 11" 
1 May 1983 53 Nature Center set to open in Hixon Forest landscape 8½" x 11" 
5 Jan 1984 1 Bid for new golf hole mired in boundary flap landscape 8½" x 11" 
5 Jan 1984 12 Bid for new golf hole mired in boundary flap . . . continued landscape 8½" x 11" 
2 Feb 1984 11 City panel OKs club expansion landscape 8½" x 11" ledger
2 Feb 1984 11 City panel OKs club expansion landscape 8½" x 14" legal
9 Mar 1987 4 Nature Center is a vital addition to area landscape 8½" x 11" ledger
9 Mar 1987 4 Nature Center is a vital addition to area landscape 8½" x 11" 
1 July 1987 15 Archaeologists get their digs in portrait 8½" x 11" 
2 June 1996 B-1 Mountain bikes not welcome everywhere landscape 8½" x 11" 
2 June 1996 B-3 Mountain bikes not welcome everywhere . . .continued landscape 8½" x 11" ledger
2 June 1996 B-3 Mountain bikes not welcome everywhere . . . continued landscape 8½" x 11" 
16 Jan 1997 C-1 Hixon Forest growing with Grandad addition landscape 8½" x 11" 
6 Jan 1999 A-1 Gift to expand Hixon Forest landscape 8½" x 11" 
6 Jan 1999 A-6 Gift to expand Hixon Forest . . .continued portrait 8½" x 11"
19 May 2001 A-1 Bluff developments:  plan for mountain bikes, cross country skiing trail on Grandad Bluff OK'd portrait 8½" x 11"
19 May 2001 A-8 Bluff developments:  plan for mountain bikes, cross country skiing trail on Grandad Bluff OK'd . . .continued portrait 8½" x 11"
26 June 2001 D-1 City bans bikes on Hixon trails landscape 8½" x 11" 
26 Feb 2002 D-1 City buys bluffland landscape 8½" x 11"
26 Feb 2002 D-2 City buys bluffland . . .continued portrait 8½" x 11"
6 Sept 2002 D-4 'This is not a trail' trail open portrait 8½" x 11"
9 Dec 2002 D-6 Grant to help conservancy buy bluffland portrait 8½" x 11"
30 Jan 2003 D-1 Hixon project to replace 'weed' trees with hardwoods landscape  8½" x 11"
30 Jan 2003 D-4 Hixon project to replace 'weed' trees with hardwoods . . . continued portrait 8½" x 11"

 


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