Wisconsin Dells Convention Hosting Stage II - Boaters Flooded Out

The Village of Lake Delton has given the Kalahari Resort 10 million publicly collected dollars to build a convention center ( 212 thousand square feet) capable of serving large regional - national groups.  This is expected to attract a whole new population of shared customers in to the Wisconsin Dells area.

Some convention attendees will take the opportunity to bring their family along for a vacation.  This can include families with motorized boats on trailers.  The upper Wisconsin Dells River is known for the beautiful rock formations often enjoyed by visiting boating families.

In Wisconsin Dells boating families access the upper Wisconsin Dells River by putting in at the public boat launch on River Road.   Boaters then travel the slough and must go through a tunnel that serves as a bridge for Illinois Avenue.  This tunnel is often flooded out making it impossible for boating families launching on the River Road public landing to get in to the Upper Wisconsin Dells River.  The flooded out tunnel is pictured.

Way beyond an inconvenience , boating families have actually paid the launch fee, placed the boat in the water and traveled toward the tunnel - only to discover the boat will not fit to go out on to the Upper Wisconsin Dells River.

This makes it easy for the visiting population to realize the River Road public landing would not be an access in times of flooding for local emergency water rescue should the need on the Upper Wisconsin Dells River arise.   Local emergency water rescue must travel further up on the Wisconsin River to find a place to launch their boats and equipment.

The Wisconsin Dells Conventions HUB Stage II is an online site providing more detailed information about the Wisconsin Dells area to the visiting population.  Visiting families find this beneficial and it allows them the opportunity to arrange to participate in alternative available activities with flooding in the area.  The Wisconsin Dells area has entered stage II of the convention hosting industry.