Hartung Park (Menomonee River Parkway) *** Recommended Put-in ***

Park roadside along the Menomonee River Parkway just east (downstream) of Mayfair Road, near W.Keefe Avenue. The children's play area here means you need to mind your language and have some sort of cover up while changing.   It may be preferable to change (into and out of boating clothes) at your planned take-out, to be already dressed and ready to 'grab-and-go' when you arrive here. Leave a change of 'street clothes' in a take-out vehicle so you can change out of  boating gear before returning upstream to retrieve the shuttle vehicles.   Unfortunately, our listed take-out is also a high-visibility area. If your group is sufficiently experienced (and the water levels are appropriate for your group) you can continue down the next section of this river, the take-out for which generally has less traffic, thus is much more relaxed for changing into or out of boating gear. (See the "MenTosa" description for info on that.)   Another option is to shorten this run, taking at the Red Book parking lot which affords slightly more privacy. (See detail on that below.) However, while that site works well as a put-in, it may be a very difficult and awkward place for novice boaters to safely get out of the current to get ashore. (More about this follows in the description of the Red Book Lot.)