The paved trail at at the Darboy Community Park in the town of Harrison, June 26, 2023. PC: Fox 11 Online
HARRISON, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) — A holiday trail in the Fox Valley is hoping to expand so that everyone can enjoy it.
The Fox Cities Festival of Lights is a free, wooded trail light display at Darboy Community Park in the town of Harrison.
This year, organizers are seeking donations from the public to support the decoration of a paved trail at the park. It will serve as a second, handicap accessible trail.
President of Fox Cities Festival of Lights, Shawn Forslund, says donations would help buy lights and other supplies to build displays for the second trail.
“People will be able to come and see the trail if they’re wheelchair or scooter or anything like that or if they just don’t want to walk on the wood chips on the other trail and it also gives everybody else a chance to see a second trail where we’ll have different displays and things like that,” he explained.
To make a monetary donation for the new accessible holiday display project, contact info@foxcitiesfestivaloflights.org.
Forslund says they could also use volunteers not only to help out during the event but to help build the displays and take them down.
The trails will open on Black Friday this year and operate every Friday, Saturday and Sunday night through New Year’s.
Since 2019, the Fox Cities Festival of Lights has served 44,000 visitors and donated more than $34,000 to local nonprofits.
While the trail is free, donations are welcome. Money raised goes back to the local nonprofit organizations that volunteer.
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