I live 20 minutes from the Dells, first off, the Dells are a tourist trap but most people willingly go into it because of the water parks. If it wasnt for the water parks, I dont know why a person would go. Downtown is chuck full of fudge shops and t-shirt shacks, just like Door county or other places like that. There is cheap/free things to do though. Its a good fishing and hiking area. Mirror lake state park is 5 minutes away and Devils lake state park is maybe 15 minutes away. The Dells boat company donated 1000 acres of prime wilderness to the state about a decade ago and thats about 3 minutes from downtown. Not free but if you are into big iron, North Freedom has the Mid-continant railroad museum and they have rides on the old steam train. All directions of the Dells is farm country and very quiet. There is even Amish 30 minutes east of the Dells in case you want to shop in the Amish walmart, stop at the green house or buy something at the saw mill.
As mentioned the ducks are worth riding on. They also have the big boats but I personally dont think they are that much fun. The jet boats are a blast though (all 3 above are ran by different companies).
If you avoid the typical tourist trap eating places, you can still get some good food, if you dont, its expensive and not enough of it. I would rather eat at a back country bar and have a burger than at Famous Daves or some other franchised chain.
You can even stay in cheaper hotels, non-chain ones and then just buy a day pass to the water parks. That lets you save quite a bit of cash at the expense of the convience of just going up the elevator to your room. It also lets you get a day pass to different water parks on different days. Most kids (and even adults) get tired of the water parks after a few hours because they rode on every ride already, if you go to a different park the next day, its starting the adventure all over again.
Its worth mentioning, if you are going for the water parks (and I assume you are), most are mostly indoor now so consider going "off season". That means early in the year or late and even better, before or after summer vacation for the kids. This keeps the lines down at the water parks and crowding to a mininum in the restaurants. Its the same temp inside the water parks winter or summer.
For those that dont know, the "dells" are a geographical land feature. Wisconsin Dells is the name of the city now but the origional name was Kilbourn City, they changed the name for name to capitolize on the tourist trade. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dells_of_the_Wisconsin_River
Rrlund, let us know more specifically what you are looking for and how long you will be here and we can make some more specific recommendations. If you want to fish, they do rent boats in the area but I got a 17 foot canoe you can borrow. If you want to camp, I got tons of space and its priced right (free).
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