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Kettles, moraines, eskers, drumlins, wetlands, hanging valleys, outwash plains: Across, down, and up Wisconsin, you crisscross these glacial vestiges, repeated in random bursts like a particularly chaotic and tremendous platter of hotdish.
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Grayson Haver Currin, Outside Online, 24 Dec. 2024
Waterville Road is a Wisconsin rustic road that winds its way through the Kettle Moraine drumlins in Waukesha County.
—Angelika Ytuarte, Journal Sentinel, 10 July 2024
Bob up and down the region’s drumlins (rolling glacial hills), meander past cherry farms and vineyards, and see the boat tie-ups beginning to swell on Leelanau County’s inland lakes.
—Stacey Nield Brugeman, New York Times, 24 May 2024
Try the Parnell segment for an especially hilly hike along glacial features including moraines, kettles, eskers and drumlins.
—Chelsey Lewis, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 17 May 2018
At the very back of his lot his garden pitches upward — as the property was a glacial drumlin.
—Joanne Kempinger Demski, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 25 June 2017
Moraines and gentle drumlins rose and fell along the riverside, creating miniature highlands shrouded in red oak and sugar maple.
—Porter Fox, New York Times, 19 Aug. 2016
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Grayson Haver Currin, Outside Online, 24 Dec. 2024
Waterville Road is a Wisconsin rustic road that winds its way through the Kettle Moraine drumlins in Waukesha County.
—Angelika Ytuarte, Journal Sentinel, 10 July 2024
Bob up and down the region’s drumlins (rolling glacial hills), meander past cherry farms and vineyards, and see the boat tie-ups beginning to swell on Leelanau County’s inland lakes.
—Stacey Nield Brugeman, New York Times, 24 May 2024
Try the Parnell segment for an especially hilly hike along glacial features including moraines, kettles, eskers and drumlins.
—Chelsey Lewis, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 17 May 2018
At the very back of his lot his garden pitches upward — as the property was a glacial drumlin.
—Joanne Kempinger Demski, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 25 June 2017
Moraines and gentle drumlins rose and fell along the riverside, creating miniature highlands shrouded in red oak and sugar maple.
—Porter Fox, New York Times, 19 Aug. 2016
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“Drumlin.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/drumlin. Accessed 3 Feb. 2025.
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drumlin
noun
drum·lin
ˈdrəm-lən 
: a long or oval hill of material left by a glacier
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