BLUE MOUND

Blue Mound, Dane County. Aug., 1970. Altitude c. 1,000 ft. Blue Mound rises above the surrounding countryside in this almost horizontal view toward the northern horizon. Its flat top, capped by Niagaran Dolomite, is 1716 feet above sea level, making it the highest point in southern Wisconsin. Local relief from base to top is 415 feet. Its wooded slopes are green in this view from approximately four miles distance. Higher land which comprises the far horizon beyond Blue Mound is probably the Baraboo Range at a distance of approximately twenty miles. Blue Mound is the largest of Wisconsin's dolomitic outliers, a landform similar to the mesas of the western US.