Join Dane County Parks for an Environmental Fun Fair located on the grounds of our Lussier Family Heritage Center facility. This FREE fun afternoon will be full of hands-on, sensory activities centered around nature, outdoor recreation, and science. This is an inclusive event appropriate for ALL ages and abilities! Activities under both solar shelter, the big oak tree and the lower level of the Center.

Be sure to visit the Ice Age Trail Alliance’s booth to decorate hiking sticks and learn about glacial landforms and Leave No Trace principles.

Activities will include:

🎨 Face Painting – Antsy Pants Paints

 Mobil Trash Lab – Dane County Waste & Renewables

⛰️ Hiking Stick Decoration + Leave No Trace information – Ice Age Trail Alliance

 Camping Demo with Sierra Club Four Lakes Group

🐞 LED Bugs– Dane County 4H

🌧️ Rainfall Simulator – Madison Area Municipal Stormwater Partnership

 Biofact Exploration and Animal Adaptation Matching – Henry Vilas Zoo

 Recycling Game – Sustain Dane

📖 Book Bike – Monona Public Library

🐦 Bird and Nature Activities – Madison Friends of Urban Nature (FUN)

🕊️ Birds of Stewart Park – Friends of Stewart Park

⚡ Induction Cooktop Demonstration & Guess the Watts  – Dane County Office of Energy & Climate Change

🛰️ Bird Banding and Tracking – International Crane Foundation

🌳 Tree Climb (all ages and abilities) – Dane County Parks Arborists

🌻 Roadshow – Madison Children’s Museum

🔬 Diagnostic Laboratory with Microscope – Wisconsin Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory

…more activities coming soon

Event Details

Activities under both solar shelter, the big oak tree and the lower level of the Center. Parking is available at the Heritage Center and across the road at the Capital City Trail/Lower Yahara River Trail Trailhead (3102 Lake Farm Road). Restrooms are available near the front entrance of the Heritage Center.

Spanish interpreters will be on site and available to help where needed.