Thanks to all of you who voted and helped Newport win a 2021 Gold Seal Award for the Best State Park System to Learn about Astronomy! We are so proud of our Dark Sky Park and everyone who helps us protect it. Here is Park Naturalist Beth Bartoli with the award and an iconic image of the Newport dark sky by Denny Moutray.
Gold Seal Awards are presented annually by the Friends of Wisconsin State Parks.
Text and photos by Beth Bartoli, Naturalist, Newport SP Although the recent snow and sleet tells us otherwise, spring is slowly showing […]
A Special Announcement sent via email, newsletter, and Facebook post to friends of Newport. NWS members and friends: You may or may […]
We wanted to share this great video filmed by Jiaojiao Tian. She drove 15 hours from Oklahoma to solo camp and welcome […]
The cloudy-plus-chance-of-rain forecast for the solar eclipse viewing event at Newport was SO wrong! We ended up with cloudless blue sky…and no […]
