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  • Nature’s Sweet Treats  

 

South Shore Terrace- Burger & Sidewinder Fries, with community tables in the background and Lake Michigan just beyond

South Shore Terrace Kitchen & Beer Garden

Celebrate the best of Milwaukee at this open-air beer garden with stunning views of Lake Michigan! Enjoy fresh, local ingredients in a menu ranging from gourmet burgers to the quintessential Milwaukee Friday Fish Fry! 

Visit South Shore Terrace

Juneau Beer Garden glass, filled with beer, and Juneau Beer Garden trailer in the background

Juneau Beer Garden

Stop at our newest seasonal beer garden!

On Milwaukee's Lower East Side, Juneau Park is just a stone's throw from downtown. Once a popular stop on the Traveling Beer Garden Tour, this beer garden is now available all season long.

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Whitnall Craft Beer Garden- with taphandles of featured craft beers

Whitnall Craft Beer Garden

Featuring 24 tap handles, this beer garden offers rotating selections from local and regional craft breweries, so there’s always something new to try! In addition to pub fare, enjoy the traditional Milwaukee Friday Fish Fry (available Wednesdays too!) and special-event pig roasts, presented by Gift of Wings Grill. 

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The Vine Humboldt - logo

The Vine Humboldt Beer Garden

Enjoy local craft beers or other beverages at the Vine. Triciclo Peru serves up authentic Peruvian empanadas. Enjoy your food and beverage inside the historic pavilion or outside at picnic-table seating.

Visit The Vine

Estabrook Beer Garden - crowd raising their steins

Estabrook Beer Garden

In 2012, Estabrook Beer Garden restored the beer-gardening tradition to Milwaukee and the nation! The featured brew is Haufbräu München, brewed in Germany by the Staatliches Hofbräuhaus. The food menu offers beer-garden basics — bratwurst, hot dogs and giant fresh-baked pretzels.

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Roundhouse at McKinley Marina - families enjoying the outdoor beer garden space

Roundhouse Beer Garden
at McKinley Marina

Located along the shore of Lake Michigan in McKinley Marina, this location offers a beer garden, as well as snacks and sundries needed before setting sale. This property is presented by The Bartolotta Restaurants in support of Milwaukee County Parks. 

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The Landing at Hoyt Park: pub fare, food & beer

The Landing

Adjacent to the Hoyt Park Pool, the Landing offers a beer-gardening season filled with local and imported craft beers, pub fare, music and trivia events. When the outdoor season has ended, the fun moves indoors to the Grand Hall for football viewing parties.

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Oak & Antler Banquet Hall - quesadilla

Oak & Antler
Tavern & Banquet Hall

During the golf season at the premier Brown Deer Park Golf Course, the Oak & Antler – in the century-old clubhouse – offers players as well as visitors a variety of local brews and a mouth-watering menu. Choose among gourmet burgers, quesadillas, salads and more. The charm of the picturesque hall also makes it an ideal location for private events of up to 125 people.

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Catering by Milwaukee County Parks - beef with asparagus tips

Catering by Milwaukee County Parks

In addition to catering special events at the Oak & Antler, beer gardens operated by the parks, and many of the pavilions in the parks, our experienced catering team is ready to make your event one for the history books! 

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Lake Park Bistro: Award-winning French Cuisine

Bartolotta's Lake Park Bistro

Consistently named one of Milwaukee’s most romantic restaurants, Bartolotta’s Lake Park Bistro offers award-winning French cuisine and a view of Lake Michigan. 

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The Dock at Bradford Beach: Tacos

The Dock

On Lake Michigan's Bradford Beach, The Dock serves beer, wine and cocktails, along with a menu ranging from burgers and wraps to salads and tacos.

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Ferch's Beachside Grille on Grant Park Beach - exterior of building with patrons at tables and Lake Michigan just beyond

Ferch’s Beachside Grille

On Lake Michigan's Grant Park Beach, Ferch’s serves up summer by way of their famous fresh frozen custard, ice-cold craft beers and wine, build-your-own burgers and other specialties from the grill.

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MooSa's Burgers, Wings, & Custard - custard, with Lake Michigan in the background

MooSa’s

Enjoy lake views at this concessions stand at North Point. MooSa’s serves frozen custard, burgers, wings, fried cheese curds and more!

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Starbucks at Red Arrow Park, with skaters at the Slice of Ice rink in the foreground

Starbucks

Get your caffeine fix in the heart of downtown at Red Arrow Park’s Starbucks. Enjoy the added attraction of watching skaters on the Slice of Ice refrigerated oval, or in summer, roller skaters.

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Zilli Hospitality Group Brunch at Boerner Botanical Gardens

Zilli Hospitality Group Brunch

At the renowned Boerner Botanical Gardens, you’ll enjoy special brunch buffets at Easter, Mother’s Day, Father’s Day and Christmas. Numerous stations offer fresh breakfast items, build-your-own omelets, perfectly cooked featured entrees and special desserts.

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Farmers Market at Walker Square- table filled with colorful produce, and customers purchasing goods from the farmer

Farmers Markets

You’ll find not only fresh produce and baked goods, but also breakfast or lunch! Many of the markets also offer entertainment. Find markets in parks throughout Milwaukee County.

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Community Garden at Rainbow Park, with a watering can near the garden space

Community Gardens

Alice’s Garden, at Johnsons Park, and UW-Extension throughout Milwaukee County manage community gardens. UW-Ext also offers rental plots, SEED gardens (Sowing, Empowering and Eliminating Deserts of food), micro-farms and apiaries. 

Get Details on Alice’s Garden! 

Get Details on UW-Ext Gardens!

Hunger Task Force Farm in Franklin - volunteers helping with the harvest

Working Farms

Milwaukee County Parks leases 760 acres of agricultural land to individual farms and non-profit organizations to grow and harvest row-crops, vegetable crops and hay. The Hunger Taskforce Farm grows fruits and vegetables to feed people in our community. The farm also raises 40,000 of fish annually to stock our lakes and lagoons.

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Accessible Fishing Pier at Scout Lake

Fishing

Many of the lagoons and waterways in the parks are stocked in cooperation with the WDNR and the Hunger Task Force Fish Hatchery. The WDNR keeps records of all the locations they stock.

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False Morel, by Tom Volk

Foraging: It Will Cost You!

Although foraging in the parks may sound like a fun activity, it’s against Milwaukee County Ordinance (47.08) and will result in a fine. But that could be the least of the costs to you: for example, the difference between a true morel from a gourmet grocer and the false morel you found in the parks is the difference between "delicious" and "poisonous"!

Honeycomb from Wehr Nature Center

Honey

Bees are busy throughout the parks, and we’re spreading the word about these precious pollinators. Working display hives at Wehr Nature Center educate young and old alike.

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Pancake & syrup at Wehr Nature Center's Maple Sugar Days

Maple Syrup

Wisconsin’s spring tradition of maple sugarin’ comes to Wehr Nature Center. Visitors explore the sugarbush and an old-time sugarin’ camp to learn about all the steps from drilling a tree to boiling down the sap. The day’s reward is a taste of real maple syrup on a pancake!

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MILWAUKEE COUNTY PARKS

9480 W. Watertown Plank Road
Wauwatosa, WI 53226
(414) 257-PARK (7275)


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