Roche-A-Cri State Park
Adams-Friendship, Wisconsin

Roche-A-Cri State Park, established in 1948, includes a 605-acre park area. Roche-A-Cri comes from French words meaning "crevice in the rock." The park has a 300-foot-high rock outcropping with a wooden stairway to the top. There are Native American petroglyphs and pictographs. The park has 41 rustic campsites within a forest of large oaks and pines. Carter Creek within the park offers fishing opportunities.

The 300-foot high Roche-A-Cri mound rises above the wooded landscape.
Photo © Wisconsin Department of Tourism

This picture won first place in the open class of the Roche-A-Cri / Buckhorn photography contest.
Photo by Jodi Kirsenlohr

Accessible Facilities

The main picnic shelter, and a paved picnic pad with an accessible grill by the office parking area, provides picnicking opportunities. Water is also available at the office picnic area.

Campsite number eight, which is available to accommodate RV, trailer or tent, includes a blacktop driveway, a hard surface pad with a grill adjacent to the tent area, and an asphalt path to the toilet. Electricity is available at the site for an additional $5 fee. Water is available near the office.

Visitors can park near the rock art site and use an accessible ramp to the observation deck. An accessible nature trail of .68 mile round trip leads to Chickadee Rock. The trail has a gravel base. There are six interpretive signs along the trail. A gravel path also leads from the winter parking lot off of Czech Avenue to the prairie project. There are benches for resting along the way.

How to Get There

The main entrance to the park is about 1.5 miles north of Friendship on State Highway 13, on the west side of the highway. The latitude is 44° 0' 3.8" and longitude 89° 48' 45.4".

During the winter, the main entrance is closed and visitors should park in the lot on the north side of Czech Avenue, west of Highway 13. See our current conditions page for details.

For more information on Roche-A-Cri State Park, please call (608) 565-2789, Joe Stecker-Kochanski, Buckhorn / Roche-A-Cri State Parks, or write to:

Roche-A-Cri State Park
1767 Hwy 13
Friendship WI 53934