4 New Lapham Peak Mugs for for 2021! Made in Neenah Wisconsin, food-safe, microwave, oven, and dishwasher safe mugs, 4 designs to choose from. For sale in our front office. All proceeds go to the Friends of Lapham Peak so that we can support the Park.
Thanks to everyone who skied the Virtual Lapham Loppet as we could not have the race as usual due to covid-19. The money raised has been donated to snowmaking. Your help to continue the snowmaking project is greatly appreciated! Here are the results: 2021 VIRTUAL LAPHAM LOPPET RACE-results
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Over 84,000 visitors came to Lapham Peak in January! We believe this is an all time high for one month. Even with COVID19 restrictions, its been an incredible month for the park, especially with the skiing conditions we’ve been able to provide. We do have to close the park to
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First Day Hike First Day Hike / Ski, January 1st at Lapham Peak Join us at Lapham Peak on January 1st, 6am-9pm – for the First Day Hike. Each year thousands of people across the nation kick off the new year by hiking at state parks, forests or trails on
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We’ll have a .7km loop open for skiing on Dec 17! Beginning the week of Dec 13th, volunteer snowmakers began making snow for cross country skiing at Lapham Peak. Our new Pisten Bully 100 (PB100) snow cat is working great to spread the man-made snow. We’ll groom Wednesday night. For
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Visitors to Lapham Peak are reminded that Parking is not allowed on the shoulders of Highway C in front of the Park. This creates dangerous situations for people crossing the road on the cross-walks, as well as dangerous situations for those parking illegally. The Town of Delafield has added No
If you missed the Friends of Lapham Peak’s Annual Business Meeting on Nov 11, 2020, we now have a video of the very informative Snow Making Update that John McCarthy shared at the meeting, as our special speaker and presentation for the evening. Annual Reports for the 2019-2020 year are
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A Prescribed Prairie Burn was performed at Lapham Peak on Nov 2 and 17. About 55 acres on the west side of the Park, and about 2-3 acres on the east side of the park were successfully burned. The areas outlined in red on the right were the units involved.
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Invasive Species Removal for Picnic Shelter & Trail Accessibility Project (2019-2020) Project Completed – Summary: In 2019, The Friends of Lapham Peak (FLP) applied for a grant from the Natural Resources Foundation of Wisconsin’s C.D. Besadny Conservation Fund. The grant was to co-fund two efforts, both dealing with the removal
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The Friends of Lapham Peak held their annual meeting for the 2019-2020 year, on Nov 11, 2020, from 7-8pm. Our Annual Reports for this past year are here: 2019-2020 Annual Reports John McCarthy presented a history of Lapham Peak’s Snowmaking Operations, equipment, recent additions (Winter Recreation Storage Building, and our
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