Legendary Lake Mills, Wisconsin | Calendar of Events, Business and Tourism Info | Lake Mills Main Street Program

The parade route will start at the Lake Mills High School on  Main Street heading north all the way to Prospect Street.  Parade start is at 10:30 am, for a form to enter the parade email chamber@lakemills.org or call 920-648-3585.  The Parade is sponsored by Lake Mills Area Chamber of Commerce and many area businesses.

Bliss Power Yoga is happy to host Wade Gotwals at our studio, one day only, Saturday March 6th 4:00pm. This workshop will take you through a creative power vinyasa journey, where you’ll be pausing and focusing on strengthening your standing balance poses and arm balances and then diving back into your flow.

make this Valentines your best ever.
Working together while using the poses and principles of traditional yoga you and your partner will be able to take each posture deeper. This class is accessible to everybody, even those who have never rolled out a mat

Treat your Valentine to a Yoga and Chocolate Workshop
Associate Baptiste yoga teacher and owner of Z Power Yoga, Krissy Zegers will bring chocolate and yoga together in this delectable workshop. Be a part of this healthy guilty pleasure.

Monday, January 11 from 4-6pm, join us at Water House Foods Cafe and Bakehouse to come play, learn, or just chill. FREE

110 E. Lake St.
Lake Mills, WI 53551
920-945-0660

One day my phone rang and it was some Native Americans I knew from Nebraska. They said they were coming to see me in Lake Mills. One is an elder & the head of the Water Spirit Clan in Winnebago, Nebraska. I asked them what we would be doing and the answer was Spirit said for them to come and see me.

When the first white settlers came to the Rock Lake area, they heard the legends from the Ho Chunk tribe. Legends that had passed down to them from their ancestors, legends of an ancient tribe who built stone structures on the shores of a very different Rock Lake. At that time, “rock tepees” were still visible when water levels were low, but soon after, the flowage was dammed and the level of Rock Lake rose. The stone structures disappeared beneath the surface of the water and became the stuff of legends.

Add to that, sittings of a Loch Ness like monster (Rocky to the natives) and you have yourself a mystery waiting to be solved.

Are the structures are a hoax, or are they the deposits left behind by glaciers. Is Rocky the result of too much time at the local tavern, a huge Muskie or a pre-historic monster? Look into the legends and decide yourself!

Here we will direct you to sites that recount some of the thoughts and theories that have been proposed to explain these structures and other unusual happenings and items found around our mystical lake.

Legends online:

A good place to start learning about Lake Mills and the area surrounding Rock Lake is the site of the Lake Mills Aztalan Historical Society. This site is a treasure trove of information on the ancient city of Aztalan and the not so ancient city of Lake Mills. Many photos, old maps, and historical resources.

The Wisconsin Archeologist, Vol. 5 No. 4, September, 1926

A time capsule of Lake Mills geography at the time and a great resource for locating Indian mounds, many maps. You need to page in about 60 pages, the booklet is entitled Rock Lake.

Is Rock Lake covering the remains of Atlantis? Find out more at the Weird Tourist Attractions website.

Here’s an interesting thread from a discussion on ancient & lost civilizations on Above Top Secret.com, it was started in 2007 but has had some activity as late as April of 2009 by a Lake Mills resident. Badgerpolo, contact the Main Street Program, we’d love to talk to you!

There’s even a Weird Wisconsin website, of course we are listed there too. By the way, the photo is fake!

Our “rock teepees” have rated a couple of pages in “101 Wisconsin Unsolved Mysteries.” Right in between all the murders and disappearances are the Rock Lake pyramids.

Here’s another book excerpt, this one brings up cannibalism (did we peak your interest?).

And of course we’re featured in Weird Wisconsin, they cover all kinds of legends here. From the Princess of Aztalan to the true inventor of SCUBA.

This is an old article but there is a good drawing of what some of these structures are reported to look like.

Here is an article from 1989 that was in the Janesville Gazette.

This is an interesting account from diver Mike Ault, who dove Rock Lake in 2007.

Here’s a good link, a podcast from the radio show Darkness Radio, listen to the March 28, 2009 show. Its an interview with author Frank Joseph.

And finally accounts of meeting Rocky.

Legends in print:

“The Lost Pyramids of Rock Lake” and “Atlantis in Wisconsin” both written by Frank Joseph

“The Dragon in the Lake” by Archie Eschborn (ISBN Hardcover 1-4134-6033-X / ISBN Soft cover 1-4134-6032-1)

Legends on tape:

The History Channel series “Digging for the Truth” episode entitled “America’s Pyramids” featuring a dive into Rock Lake by the program’s host Josh Bernstein.

Discovery Channel series “Beyond Bizarre” and “On The Inside” series.

A & E featured a segment on Rock Lake on series “Secrets of the Pyramids” episode entitled “The Unexplained.”

What do you think???

I discovered Lake Mills shortly after being relocated from San Antonio, TX to Madison, WI. It was a cold winter day and my husband and I decided to take a drive. We ended up in Lake Mills where I immediately feel in love with the charm of the community. There were families ice skating in commons park, we discovered Lake Shore Drive where kids were playing ice hockey on the lake and beautiful victorian homes lined the shoreline. I looked at my husband and said “someday I am going to live here”. He chuckled. Well about a year later we closed on a beautiful victorian home on Main Street. We immediately got involved in the community and have loved the community and all it has to offer.

What we enjoy most about Lake Mills is the people that live here. The community has a lot to offer for all ages. When we go to events (sports, fundraisers, local stores, parks) we see friends we haven’t see for a while, and it is so exciting to visit. My favorite memory will always be, our family nightly walks along the lake after dinner.

Where else but small town America could you have a pie contest? Not a “who can eat the most pie” contest – but the kind of contest that lets the youngest baker and the most most experienced adult show their talents on a warm summer evening before a crowd of supportive and hungry onlookers? Berry pies and custard pies and pot pies – they were all there. Several tables groaning with the weight of lucious baked pies. After the judges (they had the best job in the world that evening!) were done with tiny taste samples of each pie, cagetory winners were announced, as were the grand prizes. Ribbons were bestowed – and then the best part for most of the attendees – bidding on those awesome pies began! Heated bidding by proud parents and hungry townspeople and cherry-obsessed pie lovers.