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Carson Park, Eau Claire, WI

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Carson Park

A large Eau Claire city park beside Half Moon Lake, with museums, a miniature train ride, playgrounds, trails, and summer baseball.

Eau Claire, WI

About Carson Park

Carson Park sits in Eau Claire and offers many activities for visitors. Two museums, the Chippewa Valley Museum and the Wisconsin Logging Museum, share the grounds and cover local history and logging. Families can ride the Chippewa Valley Railroad around Half Moon Lake in summer, visit playgrounds, and picnic at Braun's Bay. The park also hosts Eau Claire Express baseball games, UWEC Blugolds football, and fireworks on the Fourth of July. Anglers, geocachers, disc-style horseshoe players, and trail walkers and runners can all find something to do here.

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