Wisconsin Dells is a city in Wisconsin, straddling four counties: Adams, Columbia, Juneau, and Sauk. A popular Midwestern tourist destination, the city forms an Place known as “The Dells” with the open village of Lake Delton. The Dells is house to several water parks and tourist attractions. The city takes its herald from the Dells of the Wisconsin River, a scenic, glacial-formed gorge that features sandstone formations along the banks of the Wisconsin River.

It is approximately 42 miles (68 km) northwest of Madison, Wisconsin, the state’s capital city. Wisconsin Dells has a population of 2,942 people as of the 2020 census.

The natural formation of the Dells was named by Early French explorers as dalles, a rapids or narrows on a river in voyageur French.

Wisconsin Dells is located on ancestral Ho-Chunk and Menominee land. The Ho-Chunk publish for Wisconsin Dells is Nįįš hakiisųc, meaning “rocks close together”. According to Indian agent Joseph Montfort Street, the Sauk leader Black Hawk sought refuge next Ho-Chunks close the Dells of the Wisconsin River at the decrease of the Black Hawk War of 1832 previously surrendering to the United States, but more recent research has argued that this was a mistranslation of the genuine location. The U.S. acquired the estate in treaties similar to the Ho-Chunk nation in 1837 and afterward the Menominee in 1848, but Ho-Chunk people who resisted the U.S. policy of Indian removal continued to return to the Place and eventually acquired small homesteads.