Since 2016, we’ve hosted Trek ’n Treat, a family-friendly nature hike sending kids through the Seven Bridges Ravine trail. We had 244 kids participate this year. They stopped at a dozen nature stations along the way and learned something about things like the habitat of animals, the wild flowers that grow there, and the birds, butterflies and critters that make Grant Park their home. To top that, they collected treats at each station as they went along!
Thank you all for making Trek ’n Treat a success. Each year, we ask for help and many local area businesses responded. A huge thank you to the following for their generous donations!
- Ace Hardware, SM
- Blaine’s Farm & Fleet
- Cousins Subs
- C3 Designs
- Greater Milwaukee Association of Realtors Youth Foundation
- Guardian Credit Union
- MJ Media, LLC
- Remy Battery
- Skyline Catering
- TiPrint Inc.
- Walgreens, SM
- Walmart, SM
Here are some photo highlights of the day that treated us with fantastic weather. Hope to see you all next October! Thanks to Violette Wood for snapping these photos.
Hello! Thank you for putting on such an awesome event, we are greatly looking forward to it this weekend! I think it will be our 5th time attending, although we have only been able to actually participate twice so far… It seems that the turnout is vastly underestimated every year somehow, as I’ve noticed that main ‘treat’ of this trek (the candy!) regularly runs out prematurely. Conversely (and curiously!) that doesn’t ever seem to be the case with the other treats though – or at least not the ones that we have to pay extra for, like cider/popcorn/etc – there’s always an abundance of those. Anyway, I was wondering if we went and bought a big bag of candy to bring along, if that would be able to be put to use so that the trek can continue in the inevitable event that the candy runs out. It is just hugely disappointing to have our children’s excitement building for so many weeks in advance and then get them costumed and head down there only to be met with unpreparedness I guess. So I’d love to help if that means the show will go on. Thanks!
Thank you for your comments. We plan for 300 children to attend, selling wristbands at the registration table for entry. Any child with a wristband receives a treat at each station. If we sell out of wristbands, we will inform those arriving later that we cannot guarantee treats. We have plenty of treats donated for this event and count them out carefully for each station. If you missed the registration table to start, you would not have known if we had exceeded our limit. We hope you will return in 2025 and find the registration table so that your children are not disappointed again. Perhaps try arriving earlier to be sure there are still wristbands available. Regrettably, we have no control over the number of families who attend from year to year.