Great River Road
Beef Slough Historical Marker, WI

Read the marker in this little wayside north of Alma overlooking vast backwaters and lowlands -and let your imagination recreate the sights and sounds of this area during the logging "heydays" of the mid 1800s. Beef Slough was a sluggish branch of the Chippewa River that provided an excellent pond for the logs floated downstream by numerous logging companies. Loggers arranged the mixed-up logs in orderly rafts to be towed by steamboats to sawmills down the Mississippi.