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2025 Fall Newsletter
Below is our Fall 2025 Newsletter. Hello Friends Member, Below is the September newsletter informing you all regarding the events sponsored by the Friends that are happening this fall. Here are some highlights: Women, plan to attend our second annual “Women and Wine in the Woods;” mark your calendar for September 25th. A fun night to get together and make friends. Colorama – October 4th – many volunteers are needed to help and provide cookies, […]
Lapham Lodge Donor Wall Art/Tree Key
J.S. Hallett, who we commissioned to create the Donor Wall that’s in the new Lapham Lodge, has a key to the levels of the Donations and the Trees that were used from the park, to create each of the Bark castings. Click Image or use QR Code to see Key to Donations and Tree locations
Lapham Peak Volunteer Receives Award
Michael Neimon received a 2025 Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources Invasive Species Action Award, which was presented at the Wisconsin Cranberry Research Station near Black River Falls, on June 4, 2025. Mike is one of Lapham Peak State Park’s regular “Buckthorn Buster” volunteers. He was nominated by John Hillmer, who is the park’s Habitat Restoration Coordinator and President of the Friends of Lapham Peak. The Waukesha Freeman and Oconomowoc Enterprise newspapers ran a nice article […]
Delafield Tourism spotlights Lapham Peak
Parks, Hiking, Skiing, featuring Lapham Peak, alongside other fun and exciting things to do, see, dine, recreate, etc., in Delafield’s new Tourism Video. Lapham Peak’s new Lapham Lodge (with it’s recent grand opening in May, 2025) is anticipated to be a destination with an important positive impact on the greater Delafield area and tourism economics. Click Video to Play Play Video
Lapham Lodge is OPEN!
On May 17, 2025, the new multi-purpose year-round facility at Lapham Peak, Lapham Lodge, was opened to the public, and donated to the DNR by the Friends of Lapham Peak!
2025 Spring Newsletter
Below is our Spring 2025 Newsletter. Dear Friends of Lapham Peak — Snow patches in the snowmaking loop are mostly gone, with March and April bringing rain and warmer weather. Let spring begin! Attached is the upcoming events for the Friends of Lapham Peak group such as the annual spring work morning, bird hikes, the opening of the Hausmann Nature Center with programs, the Grand Opening of Lapham Lodge, Feel the Burn run/walk and more. […]
2025 Lapham Loppet a Huge Success
A record number of registrations (over 180 adults) and over 50 middle-school students, participated in the 2025 Lapham Loppet on January 18th! It was a sunny morning, about 20 degrees, 50% humidity, 14 MPH winds. Race Results in time order: 2025 Lapham Loppet Results by Time
Happy New Year – 1st Day Hikes
The Waukesha/Milwaukee Chapter of the Ice Age Trail Alliance provided 3 guided First Day Hikes at Lapham Peak on January 1st starting at 11am. The weather was wonderful, and over 200 participants joined in the hikes. Photos from one of the hikes are shown here (photos courtesy of Pat Witkowski)
December 2024 Newsletter
Below is our December 2024 newsletter. Six great gift ideas including new FLP merchandise at the front office, year-end and winter activities announced, including the first day hike, and January skiing events and our candlelight hike, progress on the Lapham Lodge, and we still need a number of furnishings to complete the inside and outside of the building before we can occupy it once it’s finished (late February-March), and plans for a grand opening! […]