Contact Tim Astfalk at timastfalk@yahoo.com if you have any questions.
Civil engineer is decades-long friend to Near West Side conservation park
Each year the Friends of Hoyt Park hold a winter sledding event. We had a great turnout on February 6th for our 2022 Family Sledding Day. It was a beautiful winter afternoon with well over 100 attendees. The sledding hill by the Main Shelter was fast and in great condition for all sorts of “sleds”. There were old fashioned toboggans, blowup snow donuts, plastic saucers, snow boards and runner sleds. The Friends provided hot chocolate and cider as well as a warm fire in the Hoyt Park Main Shelter. A big thank you to Metcalfe’s Market for helping to provide the refreshments and to the neighborhoods adjacent to the park for spreading the word.
Sunday, July 31st, 10AM-3PM, Friends of Hoyt Park Annual business meeting in the Main Shelter. Please put it on your calendars. Details will be determined over the next couple of months
This program places motion activated cameras on public and private land throughout WI for wildlife monitoring. It is a volunteer-based project for and is a collaboration between the Wisconsin DNR and several partners
Did you realize that when you meet a bat face to face, it is really cute! Beautiful brown eyes, very attentive expression, cute wiggling ears . . .
Additional information: The Wisconsin Bat Program
This was the subject of the program at our annual meeting in April 2016 and the study is continuing in the Hoyt Park neighborhood.
If you have not done so yet, please renew your membership to FHP or become a member using our membership form. Your volunteer and financial support helps maintain the award winning activities of FHP so that you may enjoy a great neighborhood park. We encourage you to check the box for emailing newsletters so more of your donation goes to Park projects.
Make your generosity count this holiday season. Please give to The Friends of Hoyt Park. All donations are tax deductible. Mail to: FHP, Inc., P O Box 5542, Madison WI 53705-0542.
This is a social media site for biological observations. Record plants and animals you observe in the park to share with others or to ask for help with identification, and see what others have observed. The thumbnail photos are some of the recent observations.
The map will be available at the information kiosk in the park by the main parking lot, but you may also download a copy of the pdf file here (updated July 23, 2015)
Questions? Contact Tim Astfalk: timastfalk@yahoo.com
The FHP Board meets every month, except August and December, typically on the 2nd Thursday of the month
Contact FHP Chair Rich Jablonski, rwjesq@att.net, for invitation to Zoom meeting
Meetings have usually been held in one of the meeting rooms at Sequoya Library, 4340 Tokay Blvd., from 6:45 to 8:45 p.m. (unless otherwise noted).
All members and concerned citizens are welcome. There is a standing agenda item for public comments.
Meeting minutes and other documents will be posted on the web site.
Friends of Hoyt Park "archives" (older minutes and records) are maintained in binders at the Sequoya Branch of the Madison Public Library
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Hoyt Park Area Joint Neighborhood Plan
Historic Hoyt Park: A Future Plan (pdf 249kb) (does not include Appendix 1 and 2 at this time)
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