Eau Claire–Chippewa Falls metropolitan area
Eau Claire Metropolitan Area
Eau Claire, WI MSA | |
|---|---|
Downtown Eau Claire | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Wisconsin |
| Principal cities | Eau Claire Chippewa Falls Menomonie |
| Time zone | UTC−6 (CST) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC−5 (CDT) |
The Eau Claire metropolitan area refers loosely to the urbanized area along the Chippewa and Eau Claire Rivers, in west-central Wisconsin, with its primary center at Eau Claire and secondary centers at Chippewa Falls and Altoona.
At a ribbon-cutting for the opening of the final stretch of the newly 4-laned section of WIS 29 between Green Bay and Elk Mound, in 2005, Gov. Jim Doyle referred to the region, including Menomonie to the west, as "Wisconsin's Golden Triangle."