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Article: Visit the Dells, businesses urge; Cancellations common since Lake Delton drained; owners say much is still open
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- June 18, 2008
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Lake Delton -- The beach at Baker's Sunset Bay Resort is bigger
than it used to be, Lake Delton Water Sports has plenty of boats to
rent and tourists are flocking here to see the new attraction.
That's the good news.
The downside is that much of Sunset Bay's beach used to lie
underneath Lake Delton, which, until last week Monday, was filled
with pontoons, fishing boats and wave runners rented by Lake Delton
Water Sports.
Now, judging by the gawkers lining the bridge through town, a
dried-up Lake Delton is getting its picture taken much more often
than when it looked like pretty much every lake in Wisconsin.
While some tourism business was flushed away along with the lake
when a breach opened ...