Spring Green, Wisconsin - House On The Rock
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- Address:
- 5754 Hwy 23, Spring Green, WI [Show Map]
- Directions:
- I-90 West, past Rockford to Madison. Hwy 18 West (left hand exit) to Dodgeville, then Hwy 23 North.
- Hours:
- Apr 26- Aug 31 9-6, Sep 1 - Nov 3 9-5. (Call to verify)
- Phone:
- 608-935-3639
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Spring Green, Wisconsin - House On The Rock
This amazing place has little to do with a house or a rock, but a lot to do with music machines, a giant cannon, a sea monster, and excess amounts of everything. Roadsideamerica.com Report...
This amazing place has little to do with a house or a rock, but a lot to do with music machines, a giant cannon, a sea monster, and excess amounts of everything. Roadsideamerica.com Report...
Visitor Tips and News About House On The Rock
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Spring Green, Wisconsin - House on the Rock - Sea Monster House on the Rock: I've just started obsessively hitting every site you've listed, dragging my digital camera along with. This could overshadow my
other hobby -- taking pictures of evil dunk tank clowns at carnivals. [Cormac, 09/25/2000][RA: Wait, that chair was a Love Tester last time we visited....]
Spring Green, Wisconsin - House on the Rock We saw what I now consider to be the Mecca of all roadside attractions since no other place I've ever seen has equalled it for sheer bizarro qualities. I'm speaking of House on the Rock, Spring Green, WI. Even your book's capable descriptive abilities cannot fully capture the fascinating weirdness, the strangeness, the absolute terror of the house and its collections. It was a monstrosity, it was a horror, and it was the best damned attraction I've ever seen!! [Diane Longenecker, 08/27/1997]
Spring Green, Wisconsin - House On Rock Billboards Threatened
The smoldering powder keg that is Central Wisconsin tourism again exploded as a time-honored and historic billboard for House On The Rock (one of the Seven Wonders of Roadside America ) was disrespected, dismantled and discarded. As Susan Lampert Smith, supposedly an unbiased reporter for the Wisconsin State Journal wrote, "It was down with the big and gaudy and up with the small and tasteful Monday as workers changed a sign for House on the Rock along Highway 23." ... [06/22/1997] Complete News Story
The smoldering powder keg that is Central Wisconsin tourism again exploded as a time-honored and historic billboard for House On The Rock (one of the Seven Wonders of Roadside America ) was disrespected, dismantled and discarded. As Susan Lampert Smith, supposedly an unbiased reporter for the Wisconsin State Journal wrote, "It was down with the big and gaudy and up with the small and tasteful Monday as workers changed a sign for House on the Rock along Highway 23." ... [06/22/1997] Complete News Story
Nearby Offbeat Places
- Don Q Inn, Dodgeville, WI - 7 mi.
- Elephant Trunk Rock, Neptune, WI - 19 mi.
- Nick Engelbert's Grandview Folk Art Environment, Hollandale, WI - 18 mi.
- In the region: Circus World Museum, Baraboo, WI - 32 mi.
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