Janesville is a city in Wisconsin with agricultural and manufacturing roots that, in its heyday, boasted GM and Parker Pen plants, and is known as "Wisconsin's Park Place" with the highest urban acreage of parkland per capita in Wisconsin.

Get in

Interstate 90/39 passes through Janesville, as do U.S. Hwy 14 and 51 and state Hwy 26 and 11.

See

• Bessie The Cow
• 1 Rotary Botanical Gardens, 1455 Palmer Dr, ☏ +1 608 752-3885. (updated Dec 2021)
• Lincoln-Tallman Museum, 440 N Jackson St. 19th century Italianate-style house owned by an abolitionist attorney who once hosted Abraham Lincoln there, with many original furnishings. Th-Sa 10AM-4PM. +1 608-492-3884

Do

• 1 Janesville Ice Arena, 821 Beloit Ave, ☏ +1 608-755-3015. Public skate and also home of the Janesville Jets hockey team and North American Hockey League affiliate. (updated Dec 2021)
• Rock Aqua Jays, a water ski team that performs seasonally at Traxler Park.
• Access to hiking on the Ice Age Trail at Riverside Park.

Buy

• Basics Cooperative Natural Foods
• Woodman’s Market
• 1 Janesville Mall, 2500 Milton Ave, ☏ +1 608 752-7845. (updated Jun 2019)

Eat

• Cozy Inn Chinese Restaurant

Drink

• Mocha Moment

Sleep

• AmericInn by Wyndham Janesville, 3900 Milton Ave, Janesville. Large indoor pool atrium. +1 608-371-9981.

Connect

• 1 Hedberg Public Library, 316 S Main St, ☏ +1 608 758-6600, questions@hedbergpubliclibrary.org. M-Th 9AM-8PM, F Sa 9AM-5PM, Su closed. (updated Dec 2021)

Go next

Routes through Janesville

Wausau/Rochester ← Madison ←	N/W  S/E	→ Beloit → Rockford
La Crosse ← Madison ←	W  E	→ Jct S N → Harvard
Madison ← Stoughton ←	N  S	→ Beloit → Rockford
Dubuque ← Monroe ←	W  E	→ Delavan → Racine
Oshkosh ← Watertown ←	N  S	→ END