Pick Your Favorite Park Contest

Whitefish Dunes State Park. Photo by Len Villano.

The 2018 Friends of Wisconsin State Parks Gold Seal Award contest is open.

The Friends of Wisconsin State Parks is the umbrella organization for the more than 80 local friends groups organizations organized to provide support for state park system properties. The organization’s mission is preserving, promoting, protecting, and enhancing Wisconsin state parks, forests, trails and recreation areas. The organization runs the Gold Seal Award program each year to highlight Wisconsin’s state parks, trails, forests and recreation areas.

The contest ends Sept. 7 and the winning parks, forests, trails or recreational areas will be honored with a Gold Seal Award at the Friends of Wisconsin State Parks Awards Banquet on Saturday, Nov. 10.

The 2018 categories are:

• Best state park system property for eagle watching.
• Best state park system property for single-track mountain biking.
• Best state park waterfall.
• Best state park system property for stand-up paddle boarding.
• Best state park system property for school trips and presentations.
• Best state park system beach.
• Best dog friendly state park system property.
• Best rock formations at a state park system property.
• Best state park system group camping area.
• Best rails- to- trails trail in the state park system.

More information and details on entering the contest and rules are available on the Friends of Wisconsin State Parks website friendswiparks.blogspot.com by clicking on the tab for “Gold Seal Contest.”