The City of Whitewater and its glacially influenced landscape will be featured on Discover Wisconsin in the spring of 2013.
To produce the segment, Discover Wisconsin is working with the Ice Age Trail Alliance and the Whitewater Area Chamber of Commerce.
Chad Diedrick, Discover Wisconsin managing producer, noted that this is the third of a four-part series featuring the Ice Age Trail.
“While the first two episodes really dove into the geology that makes up the Ice Age National Scenic Trail,” he said, “this episode looks at areas of the state where the trail goes through or near larger communities.”
The episode will focus on the southern stretch of the trail in the areas of Whitewater, Baraboo, Verona and Janesville.
The trail itself helps to connect these communities, and volunteers who help maintain the trail system will be showcased for their hard work and dedication.
One Whitewater volunteer, Gary Klatt, a UW-Whitewater professor and Ice Age Trail Presidential Award winner, showed show host, Emmy Fink, how the volunteers constructed the trail through a marshy area.
The show will also dedicate time to the thriving Whitewater downtown business district, the local Arts Alliance, the Southern Kettle Moraine State Forest, and Sotherland Custom Bicycles.
“John (Sotherland) walked me through the process of building a custom bike – it was amazing to witness,” Fink said. “Getting to ride the bike that I helped build was the best part of the taping for me. John is incredibly talented.”
Discover Wisconsin can be seen statewide on Fox Sports North (FSN) Saturday mornings at 10 a.m. For more on this and other episodes or the broadcast schedule in other areas visit www.discoverwisconsin.com
