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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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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Updated 2/7//2022 We have engraved bricks as a fundraiser for our Butterfly Garden Walkway! An engraved brick may be to honor, or in memory of someone with a 4×8″ brick for $150 or an 8×8″ brick for $300. The first phase of the walkway has been installed. Check out the Butterfly
Each year, the Friends of Wisconsin State Parks ask the public to vote on various topics and categories. This year, 2020, Lapham Peak was voted Best State Park System Property to see spring wildflowers! Thank you for your votes, and we also thank our volunteers and Rangers for their work
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Our new Winter Recreation Storage Building, that will house our new SnowCat, snowguns, hehicles, and other winter recreation equipment, such as water hoses, pipes, tools, and supplies, is starting to take shape. Volunteers prepared the site, including engineering work, survey work, building design, excavation work, work on a drainage system,
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Ornamental grasses, including non-native phragmites (also called common reed), pampas grass, miscanthus grass (also called maiden grass) can become a huge issue for our State Parks. Each year, volunteers and DNR rangers try to address various invasive plants (such as buckthorn, honeysuckle, black locust, Japanese barberry, etc) and now ornamental
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Thanks to the Friends of Wisconsin State Parks for the “Incentive Grant” they awarded us with! With this, volunteers from the Friends of Lapham Peak and our local DNR staff, renovated Lapham Peak’s backpacking campsite! Updates include: a new fire-pit with movable cooking surface 2 new benches a new /
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