Start from 22 curated places around Spring Green, WI, then choose the recommendations that fit your guests.
Restaurants & cafés
Spring Green General Store
The cornerstone of downtown Spring Green's food scene — part grocery, part cafe, entirely local. The kitchen turns out soups, salads, and multi-ethnic sandwiches that change with the season, and the weekend breakfasts draw a crowd for the cheese curd scramble and cinnamon-roll French toast. The front porch is the best place in town to sit with a coffee and watch the village wake up.
Riverview Terrace Cafe
The only operating Frank Lloyd Wright-designed restaurant in the world, built into the Taliesin Visitor Center with floor-to-ceiling windows framing the Wisconsin River below. The menu leans on seasonal Wisconsin ingredients — hearty sandwiches, vibrant salads, and ice cream — without trying to be a destination restaurant. The reason to come is the room and the view, not a culinary occasion.
Trails & outdoors
Spring Green Preserve Trail
A 3.4-mile moderate loop through one of Wisconsin's most unusual landscapes — sandy dry prairie and oak savanna on bluffs above the Wisconsin River, where prickly pear cactus grows alongside prairie wildflowers. The trail climbs 413 feet through varied terrain that shifts from open prairie to oak woodland and back, with the sandy soils giving the landscape a quality closer to the Great Plains than the upper Midwest.
Tower Hill State Park Trails
A small network of short trails in a compact 77-acre park above the Wisconsin River, anchored by the hike to the 1830s lead shot tower. The main tower trail is steep but short, and the bluff overlook at the top delivers one of the best elevated views of the river valley in the area. A secondary path winds down to the canoe landing along the riverbank.
Things to do
American Players Theatre
A classical repertory theater company performing Shakespeare and other canonical texts in a 1,075-seat outdoor amphitheater set into a hillside south of Spring Green. The hike up the wooded path to reach the stage is part of the ritual — audiences bring picnic blankets for the grass hill and the company performs rain or shine. The indoor Touchstone Theatre handles stormy nights and more intimate productions.
Hillside Theater at Taliesin
A 100-seat intimate performance space designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in the 1950s, tucked inside the Hillside building at Taliesin. The room blends limestone walls, warm wood, and Wright's geometric details to create acoustics that flatter chamber music and spoken word alike. Programming runs to jazz quartets, architecture lectures, film screenings, and Taliesin Preservation events.
Landmarks & sights
Taliesin
Frank Lloyd Wright's 800-acre hilltop estate overlooking the Wisconsin River — not a museum but a lived-in compound of studio, home, and farm buildings that Wright rebuilt twice after fires. The guided walking tours are the only way to see the interior spaces, and the path through the courtyard gardens alone is worth the drive out from downtown. Part of a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
House on the Rock
A 15-room house built atop a 60-foot rock chimney in the early 1940s, now surrounded by a sprawling complex of themed rooms stuffed with vintage automated music machines, a carousel with 269 wooden animals, and an Infinity Room extending 218 feet over the Wyoming Valley floor. It's genuinely unlike anything else in the Midwest — either captivating or overwhelming depending on your tolerance for maximalist curation.