COMMUNITY COMMUNITY Guide to the Best Get to Know Located in the heart of central Wisconsin, the Stevens Point Area is a popular getaway spot for beer lovers, foodies and outdoor recreation enthusiasts. Whether you’re paddling the backwaters of the Wisconsin River, Your Campus Guide traversing the Green Circle Trail, strolling through shops Campus STEVIE POINTER #StePoor enjoying Craft Collective sips, fun is always on tap. Favorite Toy: Frisbee Favorite Sport: Fetch The Stevens Point Farmers Market has Favorite Movie: Marley & Me been in the same two-square-block area in (cue the waterworks!) Spots downtown Stevens Point since 1847. Favorite Colors: Purple & Gold Let’s go big, and start with a stop at this Conservatory, featuring a variety of biomes, @uwspcols massive mural titled ‘E Pluribus Unum’, on water features, and a green wall. @realdaneg the Trainer Natural Resource Building. More than half of the campus is devoted UW–Stevens Point is the 昀椀rst university in Made with more than 200,000 individual to the 280-acre Schmeeckle Reserve. There are actually two Portage County Fairs Wisconsin to have 100% of its electricity tiles, it is one of many public art installations It is a great spot to explore nature and hit the held every summer in the Stevens Point come from renewable sources. on campus. Then, head indoors to explore trail, including my favorite view on the Lake the Edna Carlsten Art Gallery within the Area—one in Amherst and one in Rosholt. Noel Fine Arts Center. When school is in Loop. The reserve offers 昀椀ve miles of trails, a visitor center, the Wisconsin Conservation session, stroll through rotating exhibits with Hall of Fame, and serves as the trailhead Stevens Point Brewery, founded in 1857, Heritage Park in Plover is 昀椀lled with work by students as well as other artists and for the Green Circle Trail. If you are looking is one of the oldest continually operating preserved historic buildings, including a designers. Keep enjoying the arts on campus, for more ways to explore the natural world, breweries in the country. working blacksmith shop. with events and performances, from music, don’t miss a stop at the Museum of Natural theater, and dance throughout the year held in History, in the Science Building. This Jenkins Theater, Michelson Hall, and others. family-friendly spot offers self-guided Broaden your horizons with the programs tours and events, along with a variety of Rising Star Mill offered at the Allen F. Blocher Planetarium rotating exhibits. and Arthur J. Pejsa Observatory. On clear The Rising Star Mill in Nelsonville, along the Visiting campus can work up an appetite. Dig nights throughout the year, the observatory into local food at the CPS Café, found in the banks of the Tomorrow River, is one of the offers a unique close-up view of the night College of Professional Studies building. oldest mills in Wisconsin. Today, it hosts sky. Regardless of weather and atmospheric an annual arts show and sale, in addition to Staffed primarily by Dietetic students, the conditions, the Planetarium offers a better several concerts throughout the year. menu features food sourced from local @markjamespics understanding of our universe, in addition to @natalie.glaze farms, open when school is in session (Mon.- their annual Laser Light Shows, set to music. Fri.). Or, check out the Basement Brewhaus Lake DuBay, a 6,800-acre impoundment of Downtown Stevens Point is a super-sized Venture to the Chemistry-Biology building which doubles as a coffee shop and bar with Cast a line in the Tomorrow River, a class A the Wisconsin River that’s a top 昀椀shing spot, is sel昀椀e spot, featuring murals like the new on campus for a tropical oasis, no matter an array of coffee drinks, beers, and wines in trout stream, as it winds through Amherst a man-made lake that was created in the 1940s the season. Here you’ll 昀椀nd the Tropical the Dreyfus University Center. Father Fats Mural as-well-as a dozen other and Nelsonville. with the installation of a hydroelectric dam. larger-than-life works of art. By the Numbers 70,718 1894 33,000+ 27 30,000 Stevens Point Area The year that the Teacher’s Number of acres Miles of trail on the Number of 昀氀owers on population (all of College was founded, that would available to explore in popular Green Circle the iconic 16th hole at Portage County) go on to become the University the Mead wildlife area. Trail connecting to SentryWorld. as of 2022. of Wisconsin – Stevens Point. 30 additional miles. 14 Stevens Point Area O昀케cial Visitors Guide | 2024 Stevens Point Area O昀케cial Visitors Guide | 2024 15