Mother Nature – happens from
late June into early July. A great
opportunity to see the tiny pink
blossoms up close is on Cranberry
Blossom Day. The event is hosted
annually by Wetherby Cranberry
Company on the last Saturday of
June.
The Wetherby marsh also hosts
marsh tours during the annual
Warrens Harvest Day Celebration
on the first Saturday of October.
Along with a marsh tour, visitors
can pull on hip boots and have
their photo taken standing among
floating cranberries. For details
on those two events, visit
their website at www.
freshcranberries.com.
But you can tour
Cranberry Country
any time you’re
visiting the Tomah
area. We suggest
starting – or ending
– your tour at the
Wisconsin Cranberry
Discovery Center in
downtown Warrens. From
Tomah take Superior Avenue/
Highway 12 north to County Hwy
O (about 6 miles from downtown
Tomah). Turn right onto Hwy O and
travel about 4 miles to Warrens.
Housed in a historic cranberry
warehouse
building,
the
Cranberry Discovery Center
features an interactive exhibit
hall, gift shop offering Wisconsin-
made cranberry products and
old-fashioned ice cream parlor
serving cranberry ice cream. The
Center’s hours vary by season,
so check their website at www.
discovercranberries.com
for
current hours.
Our suggested tour route is 22.5
miles, so you’ll want to allow about
one hour to see all the sights. The
route will take you past two dozen
cranberry marshes, but not all are
visible from the road. We’ve listed
information for those marshes
that have roadside signs to help
you pinpoint your location.
Starting from the Cranberry
Discovery Center, travel
across the train tracks
on Main Street and
turn right onto
County Hwy EW.
As you leave
Warrens, you’ll
see the sign
for
Gebhardt
Cranberry
M a rs h/ W h i s key
Creek
Cranberry
on your right. This
marsh
was
started
in 1968, making it one of the
newer marshes you’ll see on the
tour. Many of the marshes are 100
years old or older.
You’ll travel about 2 miles down
EW before you will see the sign
on the right for the Russell Rezin
& Son Cranberry Marsh, which
celebrated its centennial in 1918.
As you pass by the cranberry
reservoirs or ponds bordering
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