The votes are in and Newport State Park has won a 2020 Gold Seal Award in the category Best State Park System to Snowshoe! Annual Gold Seal Awards are conferred by the Friends of Wisconsin State Parks (FWSP). Members of the public vote for their favorite state park in a […]
Monthly Archives: October 2020
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Text adapted from report prepared for IDA by Beth Bartoli, NSP Naturalist What strange and trying times we live in. Due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, this annual report from Newport State Park for the International Dark Sky Association contains vastly different information than our reports from previous years. In […]
On Saturday, October 10, which happened to be one of those iconically beautiful Door County fall mornings, several Newport Wilderness Society volunteers met at the park to give the outside of the Visitors Center a much needed sprucing-up. Walls and windows were scrubbed, weeds were pulled, storm gutters cleaned out, […]