I agree with Gellar. I got started on morels, but the real mushroom season for me starts a couple months later when the summer mushrooms make their appearance. There is much more of a variety and a lot less people out looking for them.
As for when the morels pop, I always like to say that in Minnesota it's when the oak leaves are as big as squirrel ears. Lilacs blooming are as good of an indicator as anything.
Yep, very few people look for Chants in Wisconsin compared to morels. I trail run a popular hiking trail and one year there was hundreds of them within feet of the trail and no one knew what they were!
