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Sign Up Now, Folks!
Happy Camper Annie Petka with CAWS the Camp Mascot
Click Here to Print Your Registration Form
Call 608-698-0104 or email Paul_Noeldner@hotmail.com for more info
Who Can Come?
Expert birders, teachers, and mentors - this is a birding and nature education camp, we need you to help lead walks and share your knowledge!
Birding novices, nature lovers, solitude seekers, and familes with kids are all welcome, and all enjoy the weekend. You don't have to be an Audubon member.
You'll meet some of the wonderful people who make this camp special, they can help you enjoy Camp Lake Lucerne and learn about it's history with Madison Audubon.
This is an informal gathering. Madison Audubon volunteers help coordinate the registrations. All activities are optional and your time is truly your own!
What's Included?
- Saturday, Sunday, and Monday including 2 Nights and 6 Meals
The cost for Adults is Only $152 (down from last year!)
Children are welcome, age 6-12 $138, 3-5 $131, and Under 3 Free
- Make it a 4 Day Weekend! Friday Night is $52 per person
- Day Guests are Welcome. The fee is $5 plus meal charge if joining for meals
- Meals are provided Saturday evening through Monday noon. Vegetarian meals can be requested
- Prior to Saturday evening, meals are on your own or nearby restaurants.
If you want to use cabin kitchenettes bring your own plates/pans/utinsels
- The group cabins are simple but quite comfortable. Bedrooms have two single beds, blankets, sheets and towels are provided. Cabin kitchenettes and bathrooms are shared. Cabins have large common rooms, some with fireplaces. The two main cabins have showers and other cabins have showers next door.
- Rooms may need to be shared depending on attendance. Requests for a single room, cabins with showers, 'the quieter cabin', and special diets will be honored to the extent possible
but cannot be guaranteed.
What Do I Need to Bring?
- Meals will be served to you
in the dining hall Sat eve thru Mon noon. You may want to bring snacks and drinks (no alcohol in buildings please).
- The cabin kitchenettes, microwaves and refrigerators can be used for beverages and snacks.
- One cabin has a larger kitchen that can be used for making meals if arriving on Friday or before the first evening meal on Saturday. Bring along a few plates, a cook pan, and utinsels if you want to cook a meal in the cabin.
- Bring casual clothing, something warm for evenings, hiking shoes, and rain gear.
- Swimming is on your own, check with a camp coordinator about swimming areas and rules. Canoes and kayaks are available on request and you can swim
from canoes. It's a beautiful place to paddle and watch nature.
- Blankets, sheets and towels are provided, just bring your toothbrush.
You may want to bring an extra pillow, snuggle blanket, towel and snacks.
- Folks really enjoy bringing bikes to ride the camp trails and quiet roads!
Some canoes and kayaks are provided, bring your own canoe or kayak if you have one and wish to also paddle nearby streams and lakes. It's always fun to bring along a few
indoor and outdoor games to share and there are games in the rec hall. And for all the great birding don't forget to
bring your binoculars, and a spotting scope if you have one! There will also be a shared Birding Kit with bird guides, binoculars and a scope to use during the weekend. (sorry, no pets or grumpy people :)
- Contact Paul_Noeldner@hotmail.com or call 608-698-0104 to reserve your spot!
See http://www.wisconsinumc/lakelucerne
for More about Camp Lake Lucerne
Scroll down for a map showing the location
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A Relaxing Time - and
Opportunties for Great Birding!
Taking a Stroll Around the Lake
View a Slideshow About the Camp
Join Audubon members, birders, friends, and families at this annual relaxing and
memorable weekend retreat. Just over an hour north of Madison, Camp
Lake Lucerne provides comfortable group cabins with several bedrooms,
large indoor common rooms with fireplaces, a rec hall with a library and games, large outdoor play areas, and campfire pits.
Enjoy being served hot cooked meals in the modern dining hall while looking out at
the beautiful spring-fed lake. Take one of the easy hiking and biking trails through the
acres of woodlands - can you spot the orchids? - past the restored prairie -
watch for bluebirds! - and down to the quiet lake
and beach to enjoy turtles, herons, hawks, and orioles, take a camp canoe for a paddle,
or just kick back and relax.
You may want to bring your own bike, canoe or kayak, snacks, and a good book (sorry, no pets and no alchohol), and don’t forget your binoculars! All activities are voluntary so there is no strict schedule (other than mealtimes) and plenty of opportunities for fun, exercise, and a bit of education! Each day features group bird walks 'out the door' and carpools to nearby wildlife areas where the more expert birders share their tips, scopes and birdcall recognition skills with novices. Enjoy evening campfires with S'moors, and games, a computer projected birding DVD and other activities indoors. Volunteers will lead nature walks to identify trees and find ladyslippers, listen for the evening Whip-Poor-Will and other bird calls, and - if lucky - you might spot the resident Pileated Woodpecker and Red Shouldered Hawk!
We make our own fun! Here are some of the activities folk usually enjoy...
- Lake Lucerne Bird Walks - to see Hawks, Orioles, Bluebirds, Towhees, Poccoons, Lady Slippers
- Birding Carpools - to Germania Marsh and other nearby natural areas to see Herons, Black Terns, and many other species
- Buena Vista Marsh - see prairie and farmland birds, and maybe a Badger or an elusive Prairie Chicken if lucky!
- Canoing for Turtles - anytime, self-guided, camp canoes and kayaks are available at the beach for morning, daytime, and moonlight paddles
- Raptor Presentation - some years Chip the camp manager shows his falcon and other raptors
- Nature Walks for Kids, Plant and Tree Identification (bring field guides if you have em)
- Evening Space Astronomy (bring a scope if you have one)
- Learn Mexican Railroad. Mah Jong and other games
- Evening Bonfires with Smores - bring fixin's and share campfire chats
- Shared Songs and Stories - for 'kids' of all ages
- Travel Pictures, Nature DVD's and Evening Movies
- Introduction to Tai Chi - great meditative exercise in the outdoors
- Photography/Digiscoping - share the days pix on the digital projector
- Birding Education - learn birding by sound and how to use eBird for Citizen Science
- Help With the Total Weekend Bird Count - Everyone can contribute!
"Join us for a bird walk?" - right out the door!
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