Facilities and Services at Governor Dodge

Concessions
Facilities for people with disabilities
Picnicking
Hunting
Volunteers

Picnicking

There are eight designated picnic areas. Picnic shelters are available at Enee Point, the amphitheater, Twin Valley picnic area, and Cox Hollow and Twin Valley beaches. Contact the park office for shelter reservation information.

Cox Hollow picnic area at Governor Dodge State Park.
DNR Photo

The "carry in-carry out" program is in effect at the Twin Valley beach, all shelters, wayside picnic areas, and boat landings. No garbage or recycling bins are provided in these areas. Please bring a bag to carry out your garbage and recyclables.

Thanks for helping out by carrying out what you carried in!

Concessions

The Dodgeville Kiwanis Club operates a concession stand at the Cox Hollow Beach area. The stand offers boat and canoe rentals, soda, coffee, ice cream, pizza, ice, charcoal, T-shirts, and miscellaneous snack items. The concession is open daily Memorial Day weekend through Labor Day.

Facilities for People with Disabilities

There are accessible shelter buildings at Cox Hollow Beach and Enee Point picnic areas. Accessible toilet facilities and picnic tables are provided at both beaches, Cox Hollow boat landing, and Enee Point picnic area. Accessible water fountains are conveniently placed throughout the park.

A fishing deck is available at Cox Hollow boat landing. The park amphitheater has two parking stalls and a paved path that allows visitors access to evening nature programs.

A ten-foot-wide paved trail, 1/4 mile long, leads to a beautiful overlook near Stephens waterfall, pictured here. Accessible parking is available at the trailhead.

Campsites #16 and #55 in the Cox Hollow campground and sites #241 and #355 in the Twin Valley campground are reservable for visitors with disabilities. Both sites have electricity and paved driveways. The toilet buildings in these areas have separate toilet/shower facilities for campers with disabilities. Ask at the office for a key to the facilities. Access is also provided to several playground components in both family campground play areas.

Group campsite "E" in the Hickory Ridge group campground has a paved path to the campsite and toilet facilities.

Volunteers

There are numerous volunteer opportunities available at Governor Dodge. Volunteers serve as camp hosts, adopt a trail sponsors, naturalists, maintenance helpers, and Friends Group members. Submit a volunteer application and join our team.

Hunting

Hunters with special permits may hunt turkey, deer and small game in the park in season. Special regulations apply for each hunt.

See the maps of areas in the park open to deer, turkey, and small game hunting in season.

Due to the efforts to eliminate chronic wasting disease (CWD—the park is within the CWD Management Zone), gun deer hunting will occur October 15-18, 2009 (hunting ends at noon each day), and again from November 21 through December 13, 2009 (regular hunting hours). Archery deer hunting will run continuously October 15 through January 3, 2010. Permits are required and available at the park office.

Limited small game hunting is permitted in the park November 1 through December 15, 2009, (except where statewide or regional seasons end earlier for specific species). All small game hunting closes at noon each day. Species which may be hunted are limited to crow, pheasant, raccoon, red and gray fox, coyote, cottontail rabbit, gray and fox squirrel, duck, Canada Goose, and woodcock. Permits are required and available at the park office.

For more information, ask Governor Dodge State Park, (608) 935-2315.