Sheboygan’s Evergreen Park is usually closed to vehicular traffic from October 15th through May 15th each year while left open for other use – but this year is going to be different. Even walking, biking and other use in much of the popular park will have to wait for several weeks as crews work to remove a large number of felled trees. Those trees are among hundreds that were downed when severe winds blew through the area on June 15th of ‘22. Most of those remained either where they fell or were moved nearby, and now Department of Public Works crews will be undertaking the task of clearing them out.
In order to do that safely the east half of the Park, consisting of areas 2 and 4, will be closed to all public use between 7 a.m. and 3 p.m. Mondays through Fridays, leaving only the early morning, along with the late afternoon and evening available for visitors to those areas on weekdays – at least until early April. The remainder of the park can still be used between 4 a.m. and 10 p.m.
While those operations will restrict hours for now, it will allow for vehicular traffic to return to the entire park 2 weeks earlier this year, with the opening now planned for May 1st.
A Map of Evergreen Park from the Sheboygan DPW Parks & Forestry Division
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