Friends of Willow River and Kinnickinnic State Parks
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The Friends of Willow River and Kinnickinnic State Parks is a 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation organized for the purpose of supporting, assisting, and promoting the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources with nature interpretive, scientific, historical, recreational, educational and related visitor services at its Willow River and Kinnickinnic State Parks.
Learn about our campaign for a new nature center at Willow River State Park:
Given the chance, a child will bring the confusion of the world to the woods, wash it in the creek, and turn it over to see what lives on the unseen side of that confusion...
In nature a child finds freedom, fantasy, and privacy; a place distant
from the adult world, a separate peace.