Gathering Waters presents Wisconsin Land Trust Days, featuring events hosted by Wisconsin land trusts in July, August, and September!
In 2025, we’re excited to promote a total of 49 events hosted by 22 land trusts.
We hope you join the land trust community for this 8th annual celebration of the land trust community. Land trusts do important work protecting Wisconsin’s land, water, and wildlife.
Attending an event is a great way to spend time outside, connect with your local land trust, or discover a new spot in a different part of the state.
Here are some highlights of what you can experience during Wisconsin Land Trust Days:
- Hike Wisconsin’s prairies, forests, and bluffs
- Cycle through beautiful countryside
- Help build part of the historic Ice Age National Scenic Trail
- Experience raptors up close
- Search for plants and pollinators
- Capture nature with your sketchbook
- Explore bogs and waterfalls
- Learn about Ho-Chunk traditions
- Visit a working farm that grows organic produce
- Paddle the Milwaukee River, the Chippewa River, and Lake Katherine
- Soothe your soul with outdoor yoga, nature journaling, and more
Find a list of 2025 Land Trust Days here.
If you’re not able to attend an event, you can make your own adventure or visit one of our favorite protected properties.
Request a Calendar or Nature Guide
Request a printed calendar of events or a Wisconsin Nature Guide to help you explore. We’ll send these materials to you in the mail for free! The calendar also features some additional information about land conservation news and activities around the state. The nature guide is a weatherproof, laminated pocket guide that will help you identify many common plants, animals, and other wildlife as you explore Wisconsin’s natural places.
Ask Your Legislators to Be Champions for Nature
Wisconsin’s Knowles-Nelson Stewardship Program is how we protect our land and water. Many of the places you can visit during Land Trust Days were funded by Knowles-Nelson grants. But funding for the program is about to run out unless legislators renew the program in the next state budget.
Speak up and ask your legislators to champion renewed funding for Knowles-Nelson. It only takes a minute and every voice counts! Visit Action.KnowlesNelson.org.
Enter to Win YETI Prizes
We love hearing from you and seeing your photos from your adventures! If you attended a Land Trust Days event or visited a land trust property, you can share your feedback and photos with us to be entered into a prize drawing for YETI prizes! You’ll have a chance to win a grand prize of a YETI cooler or one of four YETI tumblers this year.
Enter the drawing by September 30, 2025. Drawing winners will be notified in early October.
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We hope you have a great time during Wisconsin Land Trust Days!
