Blanchardville offers small town life with all the benefits of a metropolitan life just steps away. Located just 35 minutes from Madison’s west side, and about 20 miles from both Dodgeville and Monroe, you can be close enough to your work, while having the comfort of small town living. The village offers a large village swimming pool, grocery store, taverns, village café, coffee shop, hardware store, convenience-gas station, bank, Wisconsin cheese & gift store, all building trades (commercial & residential), medical & professional services, hair salons, sporting goods, school, churches, and many clubs and civic groups. Blanchardville’s location also offers Dubuque, Freeport, Janesville, and Rockford within about an hour’s drive, Milwaukee or LaCrosse in two hours, and down-town Chicago in three hours, offering unlimited choices for day trips, short excursions, shopping, concerts, plays and other recreation.
You will find many extended generations of families who have lived in Blanchardville for years, and also many people who have recently moved to the Blanchardville area and then have encouraged other family members to move here. It is an ideal community for children to grow up in, adults to flourish in, and seniors to retire in. In fact, Blanchardville has seen a recent influx of people relocating from Chicago and other metropolitan areas.