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11 jUN

Best Place To Take Your Kids

1. BEAVER CREEK RESERVE

2. IRVINE PARK AND ZOO

3. CHILDREN’S MUSEUM OF EAU CLAIRE

The remedy for your kids’ “I’m Bored” Syndrome is a bit of fun mixed with an educational experience. Readers say the best place to do this is Beaver Creek Reserve (S1 County Hwy. K, Fall Creek), a 400-acre playground flled with diverse habitats. From exploring nature to tracking animals to making ice cream or snowshoeing for the frst time, the opportunities are endless

Continue exploring nature and its inhabitants at the Irvine Park and Zoo (125 Bridgewater Ave., Chippewa Falls). And fnally, if you are looking for more of an indoor space to play, visit the Children’s Museum of Eau Claire (now at 40 S. Barstow St., and soon in a new building on North Barstow) and its interactive environment for kids that inspires imagination, creativity, discovery, and the love of learning.

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12 jun

Registration at 9am. Car Show at 10am. Voting at 1pm. Awards at 2:30pm. Contest features 1900-1980 Factory or Restored, Sports, Convertibles, Hot Rods & More. Vendors Welcome, 50s & 60s On-Site Concessions including Chicken in the Park from 11am to 3pm.

CRUISE-IN CAR SHOWS

Downtown • chippewa falls • chippewafallsmainst.org

Stop in Downtown Chippewa Falls and check out vintage cars, trucks, and motorcycles while enjoying music and shopping local antiques dealers.

VFW CAR SHOW

VFW Post 7232 • Eau Claire

Welcoming all kinds of vehicles to show off (with a $5 donation). Live music throughout, and judging begins at 3pm. Breakfast served (7-11:45am) and a grilled chicken lunch.

American canoeing as well as work by important contemporary builders.

NATURE & SCIENCE

Find a newy leafy friend

CRYSTAL CAVE W965 State Road 29, Spring Valley • (715) 778-4414 • acoolcave.com Knowledgeable guides will lead you on a one-hour tour through a maze of well-lighted passages where glistening cave formations such as stalactites, stalagmites, and rippling flowstone can be seen hanging from the ceiling or covering the ledges. The cave is accessed by a series of steps and ramps that allow you to descend 70 feet underground where your journey follows well-lit, graveled trails. The cave temperature hovers near 50 degrees, so a sweatshirt is recommended.

BEAVER CREEK RESERVE S1 County Highway K, Fall Creek • (715) 877-2212 • beavercreekreserve.org Enjoy a multitude of flora and fauna on more than 400 acres of diverse habitat. Beaver Creek Reserve offers a butterfly house, citizen science center, obstacle course, field research station, and much more.

CHIPPEWA MORAINE INTERPRE-

TIVE CENTER Tuesday through Sunday from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. • 13394 County Hwy M, New Auburn • (715) 967-2800 • dnr.wi.gov Exhibits and videos explain the glacial history of the region. Live and stuffed native animals are also on display. Visitors can also hold a snake, pet a turtle, dig for fossils, or snowshoe. Part of the Chippewa Moraine Ice Age State Recreation Area - FREE (but donations welcomed).

EAU CLAIRE PLANET WALK Starts at the Phoenix Park Farmers Market Pavilion and ends at the UWEC Haas Fine Arts Center, Eau Claire • The Eau Claire Planet Walk is a one-mile scale model of the Solar System stretching from the Phoenix Park Farmers Market Pavilion (the Sun) to the Haas Fine Arts Center at UWEC (Pluto).

HOBBS OBSERVATORY S1 County Road

K, Fall Creek • (715) 877-2212 • cvastro.org/ hobbs-observatory Hobbs Observatory consists of two domes with computer-operated telescopes, a large lecture room and a resource room. It features a digital camera that allows images from the telescopes to be stored on computer disks or

24 jun multiple dates

07 aug

THE GREAT RACE - VINTAGE CAR EVENT

Downtown Chippewa Falls

120 vintage cars roll into town on their cross country journey. Some cars are over 100+ years old.

CULVER’S CAR SHOW

Culver’s West of Eau Claire • Jun 14, Jun 28, Jul 12, Jul 26, Aug 9

Enjoy cars, custard, games, giveaways, music, and more.

INDIANHEAD CAR SHOW & SWAP MEET

N. WI State Fairground • chippewa falls transmitted to a video projector in the classroom. Available for private groups such as educational (k-12), college, scouts, church, family, etc.

Featuring over 700 show cars from clubs and private collectors. Expect to see Packard, Nash, Stanley Steamer, Hudson, among all other types as well. On-site camping and refreshments available.

IRVINE PARK ZOO AND NATURE AREA Bridgewater Avenue, Chippewa Falls • (715) 723-0051 • irvineparkzoo.org With over 300 acres of natural and scenic beauty, this FREE park offers a zoo with cougars, bear, bison, tigers and many other wildlife and a petting zoo, scenic dam, museum, picnic shelters, restrooms and historical displays. Take a tour of the Sunny Valley Schoolhouse or Pioneer Norwegian Log Home on the weekends from Memoral Day to Labor Day. Also take in a natural historical marker, the Irvine Park Cave, which is about 20 feet long with natural springs running through it.

LAKE WISSOTA STATE PARK 18127 Cty. Hwy. O, Chippewa Falls • (715) 382-4574 • dnr.wi.gov/topic/parks/name/lakewissota/ This 1,062 acre park combines pine and hardwood forests, lake, prairie, and marshland. Visitors to the park will enjoy the scenery, and if you’re a bird watcher, you can find up to 200 different avian species throughout the year.

ROSE & LILY GARDENS 1 Bridgewater Avenue, Chippewa Falls over 500 roses, teas, foribunda, grandiforas, miniatures and climbers.

JAMES NEWMAN CLARK BIRD

MUSEUM Phillips Hall UW-Eau Claire, 101 Roosevelt Ave., Eau Claire • (715) 836-3523 • uwec.edu The bird museum, circular in shape, contains four dioramas and surrounds the planetarium in Phillips Hall room 002. The 530 species hous ed in the museum were collected by James Newman Clark from the 1870s through the 1920s. Two popular exhibits are the bald eagle and golden eagle, which require the university to hold a license to have them.