2023 Annual Report
Looking Back, Looking Forward — 2023 was a good year and 2024 promises to be even better! Please enjoy the Lake Park Friends 2023 Annual Report. Click here
Activities
Cirque du Lake Park 2024
Lake Park Friends’ premiere annual fundraising event, Cirque du Lake Park, will be held Saturday, September 7, 2024, from 6:00-9:00 p.m. We hope you will join us under the big tent outside Bartolotta’s Lake Park Bistro for an evening of wine, music, hearty appetizers and a lively auction! We are thrilled and thankful to have Lake Park Bistro once again generously providing the appetizers and service. The event will raise funds through sponsorships and a spectacular online auction. More details will be forthcoming.
News
LPF Calls on Milw County to Open Ravine Road to Cars
The Road was closed in 2014 due to issues with the pedestrian bridge, which has since been repaired. Read all related documents here.
Updates
Ravine Road and Footbridge
12/7/19 – With an eye on both historic preservation and modern day concerns, and after thoughtful debate and research, the Lake Park Friends Board of Directors unanimously adopted a resolution on Ravine Road. Read the full post here.
1/6/20 – Keep Ravine Road Open to All: In support of this resolution, LPF started an ONLINE PETITION to save the road. Please sign and share the petition: Go to change.org to add your voice by clicking here.
6/30/20 – Milwaukee County Parks held a virtual information session on June 17 regarding progress on the bridge’s design. To watch a video of the meeting, click here.
3/11/21 – The long awaited construction on the bridge will begin in August 2021 and will last until fall 2022.
10/1/21 – Construction has begun.
10/29/2022 – After years of closure and construction, Lake Park Friends, along with County Supervisor Sheldon Wasserman, and Milwaukee County Parks staff, is excited to announce that the historic Ravine Footbridge in Lake Park has reopened to the public. While the road running underneath remains off limits for now, everyone who visits Lake Park will once again be able to cross the bridge, a connector to two important areas of the park.
3/2023 – The bridge project still has an open and active punch list of items and work will continue in spring 2023.
8/2023 – LPF calls on Milwaukee County to reopen Ravine Road to cars immediately. For all related documents, click here.
Our Lake Park Projects
Planting Trees
We have the good fortune of having a fabulous Frederick Law Olmsted historic landmark park in our back yard. Preserving it and enhancing its beauty and usefulness for all our enjoyment requires the work of many people, but most importantly it requires financial support from our community members.
The Park’s Full of Rich History
What do Lake Park and New York’s Central Park have in common?
Frederick Law Olmsted was the leading landscape architect of the second half of the 19th century, and the architect of Lake Park in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Olmsted is perhaps best known for the design and creation of Central Park in New York and the U.S. Capitol grounds in Washington, D.C.