Milwaukee County’s goal is to enrich your life by providing essential services that meet your needs and those of your family, neighbors, co-workers and friends.
We enhance the quality of life in Milwaukee County through great public service.
Milwaukee County is home to over 950,000 people living in one of 19 communities, which range in size from the City of Milwaukee, with 595,000 residents, to the Village of River Hills, with roughly 1,600 residents.
Still a manufacturing stronghold, the region features 16 Fortune 1000 companies and thousands of others in the financial services, medical device, hospitality and retailing industries.
Find information about things to do and happenings in Milwaukee County.
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's Website
Stop at our newest 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.
Visit Juneau Beer Garden's Website
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.
Visit Whitnall Beer Garden's Website
Enjoy local craft beers or other beverages along with tastey food options, inside the historic pavilion or outside at picnic-table seating. Food service is provided by Karol’s Kitchen, with specials including the Friday Catfish Basket, Saturday Wing Basket, and Sunday Soul Food.
Visit The Vine Humboldt Website
From May through September, The Traveling Beer Garden (TBG) Tour visits select parks across Milwaukee County, transforming them into temporary beer gardens for about two weeks at a time. A restored and converted fire truck equipped with tap handles offers your favorite craft brews, while shared-table seating lets you experience Gemütlichkeit with old and new friends!
Visit The TBG Website
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, and the food menu offers beer-garden basics — bratwurst, hot dogs and giant fresh-baked pretzels. This beer garden experience is operated by ABC Estabrook.
Visit Estabrook Beer Garden's Website
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 sail. This property is presented by The Bartolotta Restaurants in support of Milwaukee County Parks.
Visit Roundhouse Beer Garden's Website
Located in Wauwatosa, next to the TOSA Pool, The Landing serves a changing selection of craft and import beers, and features regular live music and entertainment nights. The Landing is operated by Friends of Hoyt Park.
Visit The Landing's Website
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.
Visit Oak & Antler's Website
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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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.
Visit the Bistro's Website
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.
Visit The Dock's Website
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.
Visit Ferch's Website
Known for its kite store and festivals in Veterans Park, Gift of Wings offers food and beverages at two locations. Gift of Wings Landing, in the kite store, serves up variety, from pizza to ice cream. At Whitnall Park Beer Garden, Gift of Wings Grill offers a menu from pub fare to fish fries and pig roasts!
Visit the Gift of Wings Website
Enjoy lake views at this concessions stand at North Point. MooSa’s serves frozen custard, burgers, wings, fried cheese curds and more!
Visit MooSa's Website
Get your caffeine fix in the heart of downtown at Red Arrow Park’s cafe. Enjoy the added attraction of watching skaters on the Slice of Ice refrigerated oval, or in summer, roller skaters.
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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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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.
Find Markets on the Parks Events Calendar
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.
Visit Alice’s Garden Website
More on UW-Ext Garden Rentals
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.
Visit the Hunger Task Force Website
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.
More on Fish Stocking
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"!
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.
Visit Wehr Nature Center's Website
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!
More on Maple Sugarin’ Events
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