One of the most important purposes of this website is to help you broaden and deepen your knowledge of the Preserve, so take some time to wander around this website and you’ll discover plenty of new places in which to wander in the Lakeshore Nature Preserve!
Click a place name on the map to learn more
Alphabetical List of Preserve Places
- Amelia Stevens House
- Anna Jansen Log Cabin site
- Archaeological Sites
- Art and Anthropology Kilns
- Benches
- Big Oak
- Big Oak Trail
- Big Woods
- Bill’s Woods
- Biocore Prairie
- Blackhawk Lodge
- Boat Launch at Lot 60
- Brittingham Rune Stone
- CALS Research Plots
- Canoe Portage
- Caretaker’s Woods
- Caretaker’s House
- Carillon Tower
- Catalpa Trees
- Class of 1918 Marsh
- Council Ring
- Eagle Heights Apartments
- Eagle Heights Community Gardens
- Eagle Heights Woods
- Eagle Heights Old Raymer Road Remnants
- Edward Young House
- Effigy Mounds
- Fencerow Trees
- Fire circles, Picnic Point
- Frautschi Point
- Frautschi Point, Fireplace and Duck Blind
- Gallistel House
- Howard Temin Lakeshore Path
- Jackson Cottage
- Lake Mendota
- Lake Mendota Lakeshore Path
- Lakeshore Path
- Limnology in the Preserve
- Madison Park and Pleasure Drive Association (MPPDA)
- Madison Park and Pleasure Drive Remnants
- Memorial Union
- Moorings, Boat
- Moorings, Limnos
- Mound Group, Eagle Heights
- Mound Group, Picnic Point
- Mound Group, Willow Drive
- Muir Knoll
- Muir Knoll Cistern
- Muir Woods
- Narrows (canoe portage)
- Natatorium
- Observatory Hill
- Observation Platform at the Class of 1918 Marsh
- Old Orchard and Fields (at base of Picnic Point)
- Overlook, Class of 1918 Marsh Platform
- Overlook, Observatory Hill
- Parking: Frautschi Point Lot
- Parking: Lot 130 at Picnic Point
- Parking: Lot 131 at Class of 1918 Marsh
- Parking: Lot 34 at Lakeshore Path
- Parking: Observatory Hill Overlook
- Parking: Raymer’s Cove Lot
- Pharmaceutical Gardens
- Physical Plant Storage area
- Picnic Point
- Picnic Point Beach House
- Picnic Point Beach View
- Picnic Point Marsh
- Picnic Point Pump (the bubbler)
- Porter Boathouse
- Prairies, Fields, and Gardens
- Raymer Drive Remnants
- Raymer’s Cove
- Raymer’s Ravine
- Residence Halls along the Lakeshore
- Restrooms
- Sea Plane Hangar
- Second Point Woods
- Social Science Building, William H. Sewell
- Soil Pits
- Stone Wall Entry, Frautschi Point
- Stone Wall Entry, Picnic Point
- Storm Warning Light
- Tent Colony
- Tent Colony Woods
- The People’s Farm (formerly F.H. King Student Farm)
- Toilets
- Triangle Marsh
- University Bay
- University Bay Marsh
- University Houses Gardens
- Wally Bauman Woods
- Washburn Observatory
- Water Utility Building
- Waters Hall, Elizabeth
- Willow Beach
- Willow Creek
- Willow Creek Woods
Looking for a place and can’t find it?
Contact us at lakeshorepreserve@fpm.wisc.edu. We’d be glad to help!