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Riverside Park is a public park located on the riverfront of downtown La Crosse, Wisconsin. It hosts events such as Riverfest, Fourth of July fireworks, Oktoberfest, Moon Tunes, and the Rotary Lights. The steamboats American Queen, La Crosse Queen, and Julia Belle Swain make stops along the river in the park. The park has walking/running trails.
The park is located across the Mississippi River from the city's downtown riverfront. Its facilities include walking trails, fishing docks, a beach, and a disc golf course. The park is named after Albert Wells Pettibone (1827–1915), a former mayor of the city of La Crosse who privately funded the creation of the park.
Remnant of the commercial downtown of the village of North La Crosse, [31] including the 1883 Italianate-style Apsey Block, [32] the 1888 Italianate Wannebo Grocery, [33] the 1891 Italianate Willing Dry Goods store, [34] the 1895 Queen Anne-style Horner Block (later used by an undertaker), [35] and the 1920 Neoclassical-style Riviera Theatre.
Both the city and county of La Crosse have voted Democratic in every presidential election since 1988. [73] In the 2016 Presidential Election, Hillary Clinton won the City of La Crosse with 58% of the vote. [74] In the 2012 presidential election, Barack Obama won 65% of the vote in the City of La Crosse [75] and 58% of La Crosse County. [76]
The bluff was to be sold for large-scale quarrying, however the La Crosse residents were outraged by the plans. To save the bluff from ruin, Ellen Hixon and her son Joseph, a prominent La Crosse family, purchased the land in 1909. The family held the property in trust until 1912 when the land was donated as a park to the city of La Crosse.
Copeland Park, also referred to as "The Lumber Yard", is a stadium in La Crosse, Wisconsin, US. It is primarily used for baseball and is the home field of the La Crosse Loggers baseball team. The current stadium was built in 2003, although a substantially smaller baseball diamond existed at the site before the construction of the new ballpark.
It is 6 miles (10 km) northwest of the center of the city of Onalaska and 11 miles (18 km) north of La Crosse, the county seat. Brice Prairie borders the Mississippi's Lake Onalaska to the southwest and the Black River to the northwest. Halfway Creek empties into Lake Onalaska at the southeastern corner of Brice Prairie.
City of La Crosse: Capacity: 7,500: Surface: Multi-surface: Opened: 1980: Tenants; La Crosse Catbirds (1985–1994) La Crosse Bobcats (1996–2001) La Crosse River Rats (2000) La Crosse Night Train (2002–2003) La Crosse Skating Sirens (2009–2012) La Crosse Spartans (2010–2011) La Crosse Showtime (2017–2018) Website