Event Photos

We started 2012 with a First Day Hike! 13 participants joined for an adventure along the Niagara Escarpment Snowshoe Trail on New Year’s Day. Forest ecology and history were  featured on this walk led by Park Naturalist Kathleen Harris. This moderate 1.25-mile trail included an ascent up a low bluff, and complimentary hot cocoa was [...]

Friends of Peninsula State Park volunteers supported the Door County Fall 50 by staffing an aid station in the park at Nicolet Beach, and the Fish Creek public beach.

Peninsula hosted another successful Spooktacular Hike in 2011! At least 1,595 people walked the trail on Saturday evening. THANK YOU to all for helping. A few faces became quite familiar the past several days as many went “above and beyond” to pull the 2011 Spooktacular Hike off, following a challenging week of storm clean-up in [...]

The Friends of Peninsula State Park Annual Meeting was held on Saturday, August 27, 2011. There was a potluck picnic followed by a short business meeting and a report from Erin Brown, Acting Superintendent of Peninsula State Park. Autumn Sabo, the first recipient of the , gave a presentation about which forest plants deer prefer, how the over-abundance of deer alters [...]

Friends of Peninsula State Park volunteers provided an aid station along the route of the Door County Marathon and Nicolet Bay 5k.

The Woody Egg Hunt at the Nature Center was hopping fun! 50 kids plus parents stopped by to learn and play.

We went batty on Earth Day! After learning about bats, families assembled pre-cut bat house kits (crafted by an Eagle Scout). They turned out great!

Peninsula State Park hosted 36 students from Fox Valley Tech, who visited the park to work on a project mapping park trails and sewers. The potential use of the data gathered will impact future projects and the use of the property. The mapping group did a wonderful job despite the snow. Everyone was very pleased [...]

Family Ski Day at Peninsula State Park was postponed on January 22nd, due to cold weather. It was rescheduled and held on bright and sunny February 12th

The ninth annual Spooktacular hike was held on Saturday evening October 9, 2010. The event netted $2,500 which will be used to support Peninsula Nature Programs.

Blossomberg Cemetery "came alive" on August 3, 2010, as members of the Friends of Peninsula State Park and other volunteers presented information about some of the people buried at this historic cemetery.

Lack of snow turned the ski into a walk. But that did not stop people from coming! Almost 300 people participated in the walk put on by park staff and with assistance of Friends volunteers.

On January 11, 2010 Peninsula State Park had an event for families that wanted to get together and have fun snowshoeing and skiing in the park.

The Friends of Wisconsin State Parks (FWSP) sponsor a yearly contest to recognize outstanding features of Wisconsin State Parks. These photos are from 2006 - 2009's award banquets.

Take a look at the service projects the Friends have worked on around the park over the last few seasons...

A partnership between Peninsula State Park, the Friends of Peninsula State Park, the Friends of Gibraltar and the Door County Invasives Species team, are working together to create an outdoor classroom just behind the Gibraltar School.

Photos from the 7th Annual Spooktacular Hike at Peninsula State Park--another successful event supported by the Friends!

We gathered on Saturday, September 20 for the second annual Friends meeting held at the Welcker's Point shelter house.

The sixth annual Spooktacular hike was held on Saturday evening October 6, 2007. The weather was perfect. Over 1,000 people took the hike. Over $2,000 was raised to support nature programs at Peninsula State Park.

28 people attended this historic first annual Friends meeting held at the Welcker's Point shelter house. The weather was beautiful, the food was excellent, dessert was great, but the highlight was the presentation given Bob Bultman, invasive species team leader for Door County.

In May 2007, the Friends hosted a lunch for the Boy Scouts and their leaders that participated in the butterfly garden project at the Nature Center. The lunch was wholesome and the scouts and leaders enjoyed the lunch break.

May 2007. The Lighthouse Walk weekend was approaching. Park Manager Tom Blackwood asked if the Friends could clear garlic mustard from the triangle area just north of Eagle Bluff Lighthouse.