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Parks

Both the City of Wauwatosa and Milwaukee County maintain exceptional park systems in the area, which provide residents ample opportunities to enjoy the urban outdoors.

The City of Wauwatosa’s Parks and Forestry Division oversees Webster and Hart Parks and several facilities in town, while also investing in the maintenance of public park benches and approximately 38,000 square feet of boulevard flowerbeds adorning the streets of the community. Recently renovated Hart Park, abutting picturesque Tosa Village, is the community’s gathering place, home of the Hart Park Senior Center and serving as a great place for band concerts, fireworks, sports and outdoor recreation.

Hart Park, along the Menomonee River, is in the midst of a major restoration and expansion project. After the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District completed a flood control project in 2007, Hart Park was expanded from 20 acres to 53 acres. The city immediately implemented a new design for the enlarged park. Residents have already seen the completion of a dozen lighted tennis courts, a softball diamond, sand volleyball and bocce ball courts, a playground, a picnic shelter and the first phase of the state-of-the-art Rotary Performance Stage. The latest addition to Hart Park occurred in early 2010 with the installation of upgraded athletic facilities, which includes a brand new multi-use athletic field and track with bleacher seating capable of accommodating 4,900 spectators. The entire complex features synthetic track and turf.

The wooded acres of Hoyt Park have historically served residents as the site of the “local swimming hole.” Whether it was the banks of the Menomonee River, the earth-bottomed swimming hole filled each year by the Wauwatosa Fire Department or, finally, the pool built in 1939 by the Civilian Conservation Corps, Hoyt Park was the place to be on hot summer days. Structural problems required closing of the pool in 2003, and in 2006, a group of community residents formed Friends of Hoyt Park & Pool to rebuild the pool and bring a 100-year swimming tradition back to Hoyt Park. After a successful capital campaign raised $7.7 million in public and private funds, FOHPP negotiated a 55-year lease with Milwaukee County, giving FOHPP control over the design/build process and the ongoing operations of the new pool at Hoyt Park. Construction began in spring 2010, with the goal of opening the new pool Memorial Day weekend, 2011.

Several other parks in Wauwatosa are a part of Milwaukee County’s award-winning park system, including Currie Park, Hansen Park, Madison Park and Jacobus Park. Both Currie Park and Hansen Park offer golf facilities in Wauwatosa, which draw golfers of all skill levels. The newest addition to the system is a park that developed after neighborhood residents worked together to preserve a 16-acre parcel along the Menomonee River Parkway. The parcel, straddling both Wauwatosa and Milwaukee on the site of a former limestone quarry, had reached capacity as a City of Milwaukee landfill. The result of that community action is Hartung Park, an environmentally-conscious neighborhood park that incorporates environmental education, a children’s playground and outdoor recreation space.

Running throughout the Tosa park system is the Oak Leaf Trail—a 100-plus-mile multi-use trail popular among bicyclists, runners, walkers and rollerbladers. The scenic urban trail encircles the Milwaukee County area and offers off-road paved trails, park drives and municipal thoroughfares.