Urban Ecology Center locations
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Riverside Park
1500 E. Park Place
Milwaukee, WI 53211
414.964.8505
uec@urbanecologycenter.org
Hours: Open 7 seven days a week!
Monday - Thursday: 9 a.m. - 7 p.m.
Friday & Saturday: 9 am - 5 p.m.
Sunday: Noon - 5 p.m.
Directions
By Bus
Visit Milwaukee County Transit System's website and use the Google Trip Planner to get door to door directions to vour Riverside Park location by bus! We are located along the #15 bus route. Get off the bus at Park Place (2600 block of Oakland). Walk west on Park Place for two blocks. The Urban Ecology Center will be on the right.
Bicycle
The Urban Ecology Center is located on the Oak Leaf Recreational Trail. Take the trail from the south past North Avenue. You will see our Building on your right; it's the one with an observation tower. From the North take the trail past Locust Street and Riverside High School. Check out the following link for a map of the Oak Leaf Recreational Trail for options from your location.
Washington Park
1859 N. 40th Street
Milwaukee, WI 53208
(Mailing address: 4145 W. Lisbon Ave., Milwaukee, WI 53208)
414.344.5460
wkaridis@urbanecologycenter.org
Hours:
Tuesday - Friday, 4 - 7 p.m.
Saturdays, 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Directions
Bus
Visit Milwaukee County Transit System's website and use the Google Trip Planner to get door to door directions by bus! We are near routes 30 and 57.
If you take route 30 get off the bus on Roberts Street. If you take route 57 get off the bus on North 40th Street.
Biking
The Urban Ecology Center at Washington Park is not on the Oak Leaf Recreational Trail, but its bordering streets do have bike lanes. One route you may consider is taking Brady along Walnut, which turns into Lisbon. Turn left onto 40th Street, and then right a block later into the parking lot. Or a bike route from the downtown/Marquette area would be to take Highland. Shortly after Highland curves north, take a right on Vliet Street and a quick left onto 40th Street. Take 40th Street 5 blocks north and turn left into the parking lot. There are bike racks on the lagoon side of the building. Check out the following link for a map of the Oak Leaf Recreational Trail for options from your location.
Now that you made it to the park, here's how to find our Washington Park building:
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The entrance to our branch is a little tricky to find. We’re working on signage to help you find us easily, but in the meantime please follow these directions. Our branch is located in the Community Building/Washington Pavilion on the lagoon on the north east side of the park (Location address: 1859 N. 40th St.; our Lisbon address is for our mail) Our branch isn’t the whole building, just the north end of it.
The building can be accessed by car from 40th Street between Lisbon Avenue and Vliet Street. Enter from 40th Street into the parking lot adjacent to the County Parks Service Yard (north of the swimming pool). It’s best to park in this lot and walk along the driveway to the building with the Urban Ecology Center sign on it. There is limited parking available near the building as well.
There are several entrances to this building. Our primary entrance is on the west side of the building facing the lagoon. Don’t be confused by the first door you see from the driveway. Keep going around to the lagoon. You will find the double doors that open into our part of the building at the north end. The doors are painted dark blue with a picture of a night scene (a tree, owl and skunk). Don’t be fooled by the two other sets of painted double doors on this side of the building! Open the door during our visiting hours and ta-da, you found us! Woohoo!
Check out the map above for walking paths that lead to the building from your neighborhood too! Visit us soon!
