The Old Coach Road ran from Oshkosh to Stevens Point and connected the towns of Rural and Amherst. During the 1880s, travelers between Oshkosh and Stevens Point used the Coach Road, and some may have stayed at the Coach House, now a private residence on Rural Road just outside the park. When the railroad came to Waupaca, stage travel on the route was abandoned, but the bygone era can still be imagined along the Coach Road Trail.