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Richard Bong State Recreation Area is a unit of the state park system
List of Wisconsin state parks

A Wisconsin state park is an area of land in the U.S. state of Wisconsin preserved by the state for its natural, historic, or other resources....
 of the U.S. state
U.S. state

A U.S. state is any one of the 50 state of the United States that share sovereignty with the federal government of the United States . Because of this shared sovereignty, an United States is a citizen both of the federal entity and of his or her state of Domicile ....
 of Wisconsin
Wisconsin

Wisconsin is one of the fifty U.S. state in the United States of America, located in the north central part of the United States. It borders two of the five Great Lakes and four U.S....
. It is located west of Brighton, Wisconsin
Brighton, Kenosha County, Wisconsin

Brighton is a town in Kenosha County, Wisconsin, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 1,450 at the 2000 census. The unincorporated community of Klondike, Wisconsin is located within the town....
. This managed prairie
Prairie

Prairie refers to temperate grasslands of North America. These are areas of low topographic relief that historically supported grasses and herbs, with few or no trees, having a generally mesic habitat climate....
 contains of mountain bike
Mountain bike

A mountain bike or mountain bicycle is a bicycle designed for off-road cycling, including jumps, and traversing of rocks and washouts, and steep declines,...
 trails. Other recreational activities include high power rocketry
High powered rocket

High-power rocketry is a hobby similar to model rocketry, with the major difference being that higher impulse range motors are used. The National Fire Protection Association definition of a high-power rocket is one which has a total weight of more than 1500 grams and contains a motor or motors containing more than 62.5 grams of propellant or...
, dogsledding, falconry
Falconry

Falconry or hawking is an art or sport which involves the use of trained Bird of preys to hunt or pursue game for humans. There are two traditional terms used to describe a person involved in falconry: a falconer flies a falcon; an austringer flies a hawk ....
, ATV
All-terrain vehicle

An all-terrain vehicle is defined by the American National Standards Institute as a vehicle that travels on low pressure tires, with a seat that is straddled by the operator, along with handlebars for steering control....
 sports, land sailing
Land sailing

Land sailing, also known as sand yachting or land yachting, is the act of moving across landform in a wheeled vehicle powered by wind through the use of a sail....
, horse
Horse

The horse is a hoofed mammal, a subspecies of one of seven extant species of the family Equidae. The horse has evolution of the horse over the past 45 to 55 million years from a small multi-toed creature into the large, odd-toed ungulate animal of today....
back riding, hunting
Hunting

Hunting is the practice of pursuing living animals for food, recreation, or trade. In present-day use, the term refers to lawful hunting, as distinguished from poaching, which is the killing, trapping or capture of the hunted species contrary to law....
, camping with amenities, including ultralight aviation
Ultralight aviation

During the late 1970s and early 1980s, many people sought to be able to fly affordably. As a result, many aviation authorities set up definitions of lightweight, slow-flying aeroplanes that could be subject to minimum regulation....
. There is a wildlife preserve. Whooping cranes
Whooping Crane

The Whooping Crane , the tallest North American bird, is an endangered Crane species named for its whooping sound and call. Along with the Sandhill Crane, it is one of only two cranes species found in North America....
 and great egrets
Great Egret

The Great Egret , also known as the Great White Egret or Common Egret or Great White Heron, and called kotuku in New Zealand, is a large egret....
 are known to nest there.

The park is on land once intended for an Air Force
United States Air Force

The United States Air Force is the aerial warfare branch of the Military of the United States and one of the uniformed services of the United States....
 base, Richard Bong Air Force Base
Richard Bong Air Force Base

Richard Bong Air Force Base was the name of an unfinished Air Force Base built during the late 1950s. It was named after the famous aviator, Major Richard Ira Bong, of World War II fame....
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Richard Bong State Recreation Area is a unit of the state park system
List of Wisconsin state parks

A Wisconsin state park is an area of land in the U.S. state of Wisconsin preserved by the state for its natural, historic, or other resources....
 of the U.S. state
U.S. state

A U.S. state is any one of the 50 state of the United States that share sovereignty with the federal government of the United States . Because of this shared sovereignty, an United States is a citizen both of the federal entity and of his or her state of Domicile ....
 of Wisconsin
Wisconsin

Wisconsin is one of the fifty U.S. state in the United States of America, located in the north central part of the United States. It borders two of the five Great Lakes and four U.S....
. It is located west of Brighton, Wisconsin
Brighton, Kenosha County, Wisconsin

Brighton is a town in Kenosha County, Wisconsin, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 1,450 at the 2000 census. The unincorporated community of Klondike, Wisconsin is located within the town....
. This managed prairie
Prairie

Prairie refers to temperate grasslands of North America. These are areas of low topographic relief that historically supported grasses and herbs, with few or no trees, having a generally mesic habitat climate....
 contains of mountain bike
Mountain bike

A mountain bike or mountain bicycle is a bicycle designed for off-road cycling, including jumps, and traversing of rocks and washouts, and steep declines,...
 trails. Other recreational activities include high power rocketry
High powered rocket

High-power rocketry is a hobby similar to model rocketry, with the major difference being that higher impulse range motors are used. The National Fire Protection Association definition of a high-power rocket is one which has a total weight of more than 1500 grams and contains a motor or motors containing more than 62.5 grams of propellant or...
, dogsledding, falconry
Falconry

Falconry or hawking is an art or sport which involves the use of trained Bird of preys to hunt or pursue game for humans. There are two traditional terms used to describe a person involved in falconry: a falconer flies a falcon; an austringer flies a hawk ....
, ATV
All-terrain vehicle

An all-terrain vehicle is defined by the American National Standards Institute as a vehicle that travels on low pressure tires, with a seat that is straddled by the operator, along with handlebars for steering control....
 sports, land sailing
Land sailing

Land sailing, also known as sand yachting or land yachting, is the act of moving across landform in a wheeled vehicle powered by wind through the use of a sail....
, horse
Horse

The horse is a hoofed mammal, a subspecies of one of seven extant species of the family Equidae. The horse has evolution of the horse over the past 45 to 55 million years from a small multi-toed creature into the large, odd-toed ungulate animal of today....
back riding, hunting
Hunting

Hunting is the practice of pursuing living animals for food, recreation, or trade. In present-day use, the term refers to lawful hunting, as distinguished from poaching, which is the killing, trapping or capture of the hunted species contrary to law....
, camping with amenities, including ultralight aviation
Ultralight aviation

During the late 1970s and early 1980s, many people sought to be able to fly affordably. As a result, many aviation authorities set up definitions of lightweight, slow-flying aeroplanes that could be subject to minimum regulation....
. There is a wildlife preserve. Whooping cranes
Whooping Crane

The Whooping Crane , the tallest North American bird, is an endangered Crane species named for its whooping sound and call. Along with the Sandhill Crane, it is one of only two cranes species found in North America....
 and great egrets
Great Egret

The Great Egret , also known as the Great White Egret or Common Egret or Great White Heron, and called kotuku in New Zealand, is a large egret....
 are known to nest there.

The park is on land once intended for an Air Force
United States Air Force

The United States Air Force is the aerial warfare branch of the Military of the United States and one of the uniformed services of the United States....
 base, Richard Bong Air Force Base
Richard Bong Air Force Base

Richard Bong Air Force Base was the name of an unfinished Air Force Base built during the late 1950s. It was named after the famous aviator, Major Richard Ira Bong, of World War II fame....
. Its namesake is World War II
World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global military conflict which involved a Participants in World War II, including all of the great powers, organised into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War II and the Axis powers....
 veteran aviator Maj. Richard Ira Bong
Richard Bong

Richard Ira "Dick" Bong is the United States' highest-scoring flying ace, having shot down at least 40 Empire of Japan aircraft during World War II....
. Part of what was intended to be the main airstrip is still visible from aerial photos of the site.

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