Waupaca County Post

Top Menu

  • Contact Us
  • Advertise
  • Advertiser Index
  • Subscribe
  • E-Editions
    • Clintonville Shoppers Guide
    • Clintonville Tribune Gazette
    • New London Buyers Guide
    • New London Press Star
    • Waupaca Buyers Guide
    • Waupaca County Post

Main Menu

  • Home
  • News
    • Video
    • Clintonville News
    • Hortonville News
    • Iola-Scandi News
    • Manawa News
    • New London News
    • Waupaca News
    • Wega-Fremont News
    • Business
  • Covid 19
  • Sports
    • Clintonville Sports
    • Iola-Scandy Sports
    • Manawa Sports
    • New London Sports
      • Leagues
      • Sports
      • Park & Rec Activities
    • Waupaca Sports
    • Wega-Fremont Sports
    • Hortonville Sports
    • Outdoor
    • High School Sports Scores
  • Courts
  • Opinion
  • Obits
  • Classifieds
    • View Ads
    • Place Ads
  • Legal Ads
    • Our Legals
    • Statewide
  • E-Editions
    • Clintonville Shoppers Guide
    • New London Buyers Guide
    • Waupaca Buyers Guide
  • Contact Us
  • Advertise
  • Advertiser Index
  • Subscribe
  • E-Editions
    • Clintonville Shoppers Guide
    • Clintonville Tribune Gazette
    • New London Buyers Guide
    • New London Press Star
    • Waupaca Buyers Guide
    • Waupaca County Post

logo

Waupaca County Post

  • Home
  • News
    • Video
    • Clintonville News
    • Hortonville News
    • Iola-Scandi News
    • Manawa News
    • New London News
    • Waupaca News
    • Wega-Fremont News
    • Business
  • Covid 19
  • Sports
    • Clintonville Sports
    • Iola-Scandy Sports
    • Manawa Sports
    • New London Sports
      • Leagues
      • Sports
      • Park & Rec Activities
    • Waupaca Sports
    • Wega-Fremont Sports
    • Hortonville Sports
    • Outdoor
    • High School Sports Scores
  • Courts
  • Opinion
  • Obits
  • Classifieds
    • View Ads
    • Place Ads
  • Legal Ads
    • Our Legals
    • Statewide
  • E-Editions
    • Clintonville Shoppers Guide
    • New London Buyers Guide
    • Waupaca Buyers Guide
Waupaca News
Home›News›Waupaca News›Library boxes big hit at park

Library boxes big hit at park

By WaupacaNow
October 17, 2016
1513
0

Friends group looking for sponsors

Julie Bahr has been coming to Hartman Creek State Park for many years and grew up in a camping family.

“When Dad got home Friday night, we hit the road for the weekend,” she recalled.

As an adult, Bahr tent-camped on her own and then invested in a teardrop camper. She retired in 2011 and now spends months camping in various places. She was recruited to be a campground host at Hartman Creek a few years ago and devotes many hours to the park with cleaning, maintenance and trail work and helping campers.

Bahr loved the idea of a free library at the park after seeing them pop up all over. She enlisted the help of Blake Johnston at RetroRide Teardrops to build a little library shaped like her camper. Johnston realized the teardrop would not work as a library, but did build two boxes that have been installed at the park. One lives at campsite 23, a camp host site, and the other box is located outside of the park office. Anyone can take a book or leave a book.

While Bahr was a host in August, she saw a dad and his kids reading at the campfire and other evidence the books were a real hit. She moved on to host at other campgrounds after leaving Hartman Creek, but the libraries remain.

The library box in the campground is closed until next spring, but the box outside the park office is open year-round.

Adult, young adult or children’s books – not too many at a time – can be dropped at the park office for future stocking.

The Friends of Hartman Creek State Park sponsor and maintain the boxes, which are registered with “Little Free Libraries,” so should show up on their map of all LFLs in the world.

The Friends group is looking for an individual, family or class to adopt the boxes. Contact the park office at 715-258-2372 if interested.

TagsHartman Creek State Park
Previous Article

State 110 to be closed

Next Article

Waupaca teen faces drug charges

Related articles More from author

  • Outdoors

    Ice Age Trail needs volunteers

    October 9, 2015
    By WaupacaNow
  • Waupaca NewszHideFeatured

    Ice Age Trail gets facelift

    October 22, 2015
    By WaupacaNow
  • Outdoors

    Hartman Creek turns 50

    May 17, 2016
    By WaupacaNow
  • Outdoors

    A home away from home

    May 27, 2016
    By WaupacaNow
  • VideosWaupaca NewszHideFeatured

    Hartman Creek turns 50

    June 8, 2016
    By WaupacaNow
  • VideosWaupaca NewszHideFeatured

    Students get back to nature

    October 12, 2016
    By WaupacaNow

Leave a reply Cancel reply

Free WaupacaNow Newsletter

About Us


Waupaca County Post, New London Press Star and Clintonville Tribune-Gazette are published every Thursday by Multi Media Channels. The papers are locally owned, locally operated and locally written. Subscriptions are $59 annually, delivered via U.S. Postal Service.

To subscribe, go www.shopmmclocal.com/product-category/waupacanow-portal or call 715-258-4360

Timeline

  • February 1, 2023

    Boucher, Michael Robert

  • February 1, 2023

    Hotvedt, Marjorie

  • February 1, 2023

    Amherst Marine moves to Waupaca

  • February 1, 2023

    City council discusses Public Works employees

  • February 1, 2023

    Community bank announces promotions

Find us on Facebook

Copyright © 2022 Multi Media Channels LLC.
All Rights Reserved. No part of this publication or any of its contents may be reproduced, copied, modified or adapted without the prior written consent of Multi Media Channels LLC.
×