Parks and Open Spaces

The Village of Fox Crossing has a total of 21 parks and open space sites that total 261.47 acres.  There are a number of amenities provided by village parks.  Village recreational opportunities include baseball diamonds, basketball courts, a disc golf course, an ice rink, trails, natural areas, picnic facilities, playground equipment, sledding hills, tennis courts, and volleyball courts.

Interactive Park System Map

Park and Off-Road Bike/Pedestrian Facilities Map (PDF Form)

Woodland Prairie Park Master Plan

Woodland Prairie Park Mountain Bike Map

Comprehensive Outdoor Recreation Plan 2022-2026

Parks

Anunson Farm Park (Map)
Developed in 2020, Anunson Farm Park is a 3.5 acre park located on Big Bend Drive in the Winding Creek Subdivision.  The park consists of two playgrounds, an open air shelter, walking and nature trails, as well as an open space area.
Butte des Morts Park(Map)
Butte des Morts Park is a 1.6 acre park located on the east shore of Little Lake Buttes des Morts.  Facilities include a natural area and trail along with playground equipment.
Fritsch Park (Map)
Fritsch Park is an 18.5 acre park located on the eastern half of the village.  Existing facilities include an ice rink, a pavilion with a kitchen and picnic tables, playground equipment, restrooms, sledding hill, soccer fields, and ping pong table.
Fritse Park/Rydell Property (Map)
Fritse Park is a 15.26 acre park located on the western shore of Little Lake Butte des Morts.  Ten and a half acres of this property was acquired from the Natural Resource Damage Assessment and Restoration (NRDA) Fox River PCB Clean-up Settlement in 2003.  Existing facilities at this site include a boat launch, boat wash station, picnic tables, playground equipment, restrooms, and sledding hill.  The park also hosts the western trailhead for the Fox Cities Trestle/Friendship trail connecting the Village of Fox Crossing to the City of Menasha.  A year-round two-tiered comfort station with restrooms and an indoor pavilion exists in the park.
Gant Park
Gant Park was acquired through NRDA grant funds as a part of the Fox River PCB Clean-up Settlement.  It is a 1.13 acre park along Little Lake Butte des Morts.
Glenview Park 
Glenview Park is a 0.55 acre park located in the south central portion of the village.  It has playground equipment, and picnic tables.
Kippenhan Park (Map)
Kippenhan Park is a 0.33 acre park.  Like Glenview Park it has playground equipment, and picnic tables.
Meadow Heights Park (Map)
This is a 0.15 acre lot that was developed in the Meadow Heights Subdivision.  It contains a small tot-lot with climbers and slides.
O’Hauser Park (North/South) (Map)
O’Hauser Park is a 64.37 acre park located in the western portion of the village.  Existing facilities at this site include four baseball fields, disc golf course, wooded natural area with trails, two pavilions with kitchens, picnic tables, grills, restrooms, playground area, sledding hill, soccer field, tennis courts, and volleyball court.  Prairie restoration areas have also been designated.
Palisades Park (Map)
Palisades Park is a 14.85 acre park located on the east side of the village.  Existing facilities include a pavilion with a kitchen and picnic tables, baseball fields, batting cage, basketball court, natural area, trail, grills, restrooms, playground area, tennis courts, and volleyball court.
Roy Kuehn Park (Map)
Roy Kuehn Park is a 0.23 acre park in the south central portion of the village.  Existing facilities include playground equipment and picnic table.
Schildt Park (Map)
Schildt Park is a 10.02 acre park.  Existing facilities include basketball court, pavilion with kitchen, picnic tables, grills, playground equipment, restrooms, and volleyball court.  Schildt Park also hosts a 26-plot Community Garden.
Strohmeyer Park (Map)
Strohmeyer Park is a 1.42 acre park in the west central section of the village.  Existing facilities include playground equipment and a basketball court with a surfaced trail leading to both.
Westfield Park (Map)
Westfield Park is a 0.52 acre park located in the central portion of the village.  Existing facilities include playground equipment with spring toys and a paved path to the park.
Wittmann Park (Map)
Wittmann Park is a 25.03 acre park on the east side of the village.  Existing facilities at the park include a tennis/pickle ball court/2 half court basketball courts, pavilion, picnic tables, grills, playground equipment, restrooms and soccer fields.  In 2018 a Community Garden was put in place and currently hosts 19 garden plots.
Woodland Prairie Park
This site is an undeveloped 64 acre property, located just east of the Fox Crossing Municipal Complex (formerly CB Park).  It contains areas of forested land.  The Conceptual Master Plan was adopted by the Village Board of Trustees on June 24, 2019.  To view the plan in its entirety, please click here.

Open Spaces

Annex Lane
This open space is on Little Lake Buttes des Morts and is 0.58 acres.
Brighton Beach Open Space
The Brighton Beach Open Space was acquired through a settlement with Warehouse Specialists.  It is an 8.98 acre site that has a substantial acreage of wetlands, woodlands, and 100- and 500-year floodplain.
Gateway Meadows Open Space
The Gateway Meadows Open Space is an open space network in the Gateway Meadows Subdivision on the west side of Fox Crossing.  It is 13.56 acres of wetlands and woodlands.
Stroebe-Pearl-Cox Open Space
The Stroebe-Pearl-Cox Open Space is a 12.34 acre preserve on Stroebe Island in the north central section of Fox Crossing.  It encompasses wetlands, woodlands, 100-year flood plain, and marsh bottoms.
Wildlife Heights Open Space
The Wildlife Heights Open Space is a 4.06 acre preserve in the Wildlife Heights Subdivision in southwest Fox Crossing.  The site encompasses wetlands, woodlands, and intermittent navigable stream.