Warner Park Duck Pond Entrance - panoramio

Warner Park is a community

park A park is an area of natural, semi-natural or planted space set aside for human enjoyment and recreation or for the protection of wildlife or natural habitats. Urban parks are urban green space, green spaces set aside for recreation inside t ...

on the northeast side of

Madison, Wisconsin Madison is the county seat of Dane County and the capital city of the U.S. state of Wisconsin. As of the 2020 census the population was 269,840, making it the second-largest city in Wisconsin by population, after Milwaukee, and the 80th-lar ...

near

Lake Mendota Lake Mendota is a freshwater eutrophic lake that is the northernmost and largest of the four lakes in Madison, Wisconsin. The lake borders Madison on the north, east, and south, Middleton on the west, Shorewood Hills on the southwest, Maple Blu ...

. Warner Park is also the home to the

Madison Mallards The Madison Mallards are a collegiate summer baseball team based in Madison, Wisconsin that plays in the Northwoods League. Warner Park on Madison’s North side is the team's home field. History The history of minor league baseball in Madison b ...

baseball Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each, taking turns batting and fielding. The game occurs over the course of several plays, with each play generally beginning when a player on the fielding tea ...

team, a member of the

Northwoods League The Northwoods League is a collegiate summer baseball wooden bat league. All players in the league must have NCAA eligibility remaining in order to participate. The league is amateur, and players are not paid, so as to maintain their college el ...

. Its stadium, nicknamed the "Duck Pond", was built in 1982 and has a capacity of 6,750. It also hosts the

Madison East High School Madison East High School is one of four comprehensive four-year high schools in Madison, Wisconsin. It was established in 1922, making it the oldest public high school still operating in Madison. The school mascot is "Peppy Purgolder", an animal ...

and Madison La Follette High School baseball teams. The adjacent football field was formerly the home of the Madison Mustangs, a

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team that played in the Central States Football League in the 1960s and 1970s. Warner Park contains a multi-purpose facility for community activities. It has a gymnasium, a fully equipped exercise room, a game room and dry and wet craft rooms. Meeting rooms and community rooms are available for rent. The park contains a 9-foot-tall metal replica of the

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(''Liberty Enlightening the World''), built in 1950.

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Parks in Wisconsin Geography of Madison, Wisconsin Sports venues in Madison, Wisconsin Protected areas of Dane County, Wisconsin Tourist attractions in Madison, Wisconsin Defunct National Premier Soccer League stadiums Sports venues completed in 1982 1982 establishments in Wisconsin Defunct Midwest League ballparks {{Wisconsin-sports-venue-stub

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