
Military Ridge Trail
When you're making a career decision, it's about more than a high-quality job. It's about your life outside that job - how you play, how you learn, and how you fit in a community. It's about the quality of life.
Portage is a picturesque and thriving community of over 10,000 people. The city offers a historic downtown area as well as more contemporary retail shopping and a growing industrial park. A 3,800-foot runway, daily Amtrak service and train depot; several scenic walking and biking/hiking trails, 12 city parks, 7 golf courses and a nearby ski hill combined with more than 30,000 acres of wildlife areas and waterways offer superb recreational opportunities. In other words, in Portage you have all the advantages of a small, friendly riverside community and short commute times coupled with easy access to major metropolitan dining, shopping and recreation, plus a world-class university, just 30 minutes away in Madison.
Portage is home to history, arts and culture and annual events for all ages, including the
Portage Center for the Arts and the
Portage Community Theater; annual events including the Festival of Flowers, Canal Days, the Arts Walk and Concert in the Park, the Columbia County Fair, Yesterfest and the Friendship Village celebration of Pulitzer Prize-winning author
Zona Gale. For more information on these and other events, see the
Portage Area Chamber of Commerce website.