Baraboo, WI Hotels, Vacations, Tourism

Between 1884 and 1912, the Ringling Brothers' Circus kept winter quarters in BARABOO , thirty miles northwest of Madison. The Circus World Museum , 426 Water St, successfully recaptures the pre-TV glory days of big-top history, via an enormous collection of memorabilia and daily performances including an old-time circus show that is both tawdry (elephants with bows on their tails do leg kicks to New York, New York ) and irresistible (mid-July and Aug daily 9am–9pm, $11.95, with shows at 11am, 3pm and 7.30pm; May– early July daily 9am–6pm, same schedule, without 7.30pm show; … more »