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MONCHES PARK

Waukesha County Park System

Location:
Town of Merton, Sections 3, 10, 15
Address:
N/A
Size:
370 Acres

Acquisition History:
• 1973 Purchase from Ellen Guilfoile
Estate – 40 acres
• 1973 Purchase from Metropolitan

Property Corp. – 70 acres
• 1986 Purchase from Levenhagen – 40
acres
• 1991 Purchase from Norman Chester
– 84 acres
• 1998 Purchase from
Baumgartner/Follett – 42 acres Site Characteristics: (Undeveloped)
• 2001 Purchase from Ice Age Park &
Trail Foundation – 13 acres Monches Park is located in the north central portion
• 2005 Purchase from Ketterer – 77 of Waukesha County, south/southwest of the County
acres Road Q and County Road E intersection. This
• 2009 Purchase from Hartmann – 4 undeveloped park site is a high-quality portion of
acres Wisconsin’s inter-lobate Kettle Moraine. A large
Proposed Acquisition: portion of the site is covered with high-quality
• 10 acres of open lands that protrude
into main parkland area in order to hardwood forest, moist mesic woods, Northern wet
buffer the Monches hardwood forest forest, lowland hardwoods, flood plain forest and
plantations of Red and White Pine as well as Norway
Amenities: Spruce. Some open fields are being converted to old-
• Ice Age Trail and Trailhead field or prairie meadows. There are shrub swamps

Activities: and wet meadow/shallow marshes located within the
• Ag Land Rental floodplains of the Oconomowoc River. The Monches
• Hiking Woods natural area has been identified as a (NA-1)
• Geocaching natural area of statewide or greater significance.
• Snowmobiling
• Snowshoeing

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