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How did the Ice Age Trail get started?

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How did the Ice Age Trail get started?

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It began in the 1950s as the dream of Milwaukeean Ray Zillmer who had vision of a thousand-mile-long park winding through Wisconsin along the terminal moraine. Zillmer founded the Ice Age Park & Trail Foundation (now the Ice Age Trail Alliance) in 1958 to make the dream a reality. In 1980 Congress recognized the national significance of the Ice Age Trail by designating it a National Scenic Trail (NST). In 1987 the State of Wisconsin gave it the second designation of State Scenic Trail.