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MUSKEGO PARK

Waukesha County Park System

Location:
Town of Muskego, Section 17
Address:
S83 W20370 Janesville Road, Muskego
Size:
193 Acres

Acquisition History:

• 1958 Purchase from Addie Ellarson
Crosswaite – 54.5 acres
• 1958 Purchase from Arthur Ellarson –
54.5 acres
• 1958 Purchase from Cecelia Ellarson
Neiman – 50 acres
• 1987 Dedication from Scholbe Farms –
34 acres
Proposed Acquisition: Site Characteristics:
• None Located in Southeastern Waukesha County, in the
Town of Muskego, and formerly known as the Ellarson
Amenities:
• Archery Range farm, Muskego Park was one of the pioneer farms
• Beach occupied by members of the same family since 1836.
• Beach House The terrain in the park is a rolling landscape of dense
• Family Camping – 24 sites soils and wetland areas with small ponds. Within the
• Group Camping – 2 sites park is the State Natural Area known as the Muskego
• Legacy Forest Park Hardwoods. Muskego Park Hardwoods is an old-
• Modern Restrooms growth, southern, dry-mesic forest dominated by
• Picnic Shelters (5)
• Trail System white and red oaks on a gently sloping grade.
Occasional large sugar maples occur along with a
mixture of other trees such as bitternut hickory,
shagbark hickory, butternut, walnut, white ash,
basswood, black cherry, ironwood, and, of particular
interest, Kentucky coffee tree, and blue ash. The
southeast corner has a lowland forest with some elm
and hackberry. Spring flora is exceptionally rich and
contains wild leek, toothwort, bloodroot, declined
trillium, reflexed trillium, green dragon, and red
baneberry.

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