Ridgeway, WI

Ridgeway is an Iowa County village beside the Town of Ridgeway, with Barneveld nearby and the Madison metropolitan area within the wider orbit. The village has a compact center, a community park, local businesses, a post office, and a volunteer fire department shared with the town. Beyond the village streets, the town's Driftless Area terrain spreads across wooded hills, ravines, rock bluffs, farm fields, and long rural roads. Hyde's Mill, built at an 1850 dam on Mill Creek, is one of the broader town landmarks.

Ridgeway's most memorable local story is the ghost said to have appeared along the Military Road from the 1840s through the 1880s. The village history keeps those tales in circulation, including the story of a vanished peddler and a horse that kept returning to a saloon. It is folklore, but it gives the town a personality that sits alongside its parks, meetings, first responders, and seasonal events. Ridgeway is a Wisconsin village where Driftless scenery and a very old ghost story share the everyday map.