UW Lakeshore Nature Preserve: A Destination for Exploration
in partnership with the 2025 UW-Madison Science Expeditions
Event Details
Date
Sunday, April 6, 2025
Time
1-3 p.m.
Location
Picnic Point entrance kiosk, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2000 University Bay Drive, Madison WI 53705
Description
Explore the Preserve with hands-on interactive learning stations for children, students, and adults. Plus learn about the new Frautschi Center and enjoy a campfire with a hot beverage on Picnic Point.
Learning stations:
• Birds with opportunities to use binoculars and spotting scope
• Geology of the stone wall at Picnic Point
• Trees and how to identify them
• Indian burial mounds and the people who built them
Learning stations:
• Birds with opportunities to use binoculars and spotting scope
• Geology of the stone wall at Picnic Point
• Trees and how to identify them
• Indian burial mounds and the people who built them
Cost
Free
Contact
Accessibility
We value inclusion and access for all participants and are pleased to provide reasonable accommodations for this event. Please call 608-220-5560 or email bryn.scriver@wisc.edu to make a disability-related accommodation request. Reasonable effort will be made to support your request.