1. Maple Bluff/Dengel Bay: 7.99 miles — Heading east of downtown, you’ll hug Lake Mendota’s shoreline for most of the route. Much of the route is located in the tranquil Maple Bluff neighborhood, a ...

Archaeologists from the Wisconsin Historical Society recently made a fascinating discovery at the bottom of Lake Mendota ... canoes were likely buried as the shoreline changed over the centuries ...