Does Homestead Hollow have a dog park?

Yes, Homestead Hollow County Park has a dog park called Homestead Howl with separate areas for large and small dogs.

Do you need a pass for Homestead Hollow?

Yes, Homestead Hollow is a Washington County park and needs a county parks pass, which you can buy through the county's parks site.

Where can you play pickleball in Germantown?

Haupt Strasse Park at Main Street and Western Avenue has four permanent pickleball courts with windscreens, free to use.

Does Germantown have a splash pad?

Yes, Kinderberg Park has a 1,200-square-foot sprayground, the village's only aquatic facility.

Where is the skate park in Germantown?

Germantown's only skate park is in Haupt Strasse Park, at Main Street and Western Avenue.

Parks Germantown WI: Homestead Hollow, Kinderberg and More

Germantown's green space comes in two kinds: one big county park on the west side, and a set of village parks, each built around something specific. Between them, the parks Germantown runs and the county park on Freistadt Road cover a dog park, a skating pond, four pickleball courts, the village's only skate park, a sprayground and a historic settlement with an archery range.

The county park, Homestead Hollow, is about 2.3 miles west of Main Street. Here is what each park is for, so you can pick the right one for the day you have.

Homestead Hollow County Park

Homestead Hollow is Washington County's park in Germantown, about 105 acres of prairie, open grass fields and woods off Freistadt Road.

Homestead Hollow County Park

It opened in 1978 on an old farmstead, and the farm's red barns still stand, converted into four reservable shelters and an event barn. The dog park, called Homestead Howl, has separate areas for large and small dogs.

Trails come in two kinds: paved paths, and hillier wooded trails that The Park Next Door warns get muddy, so wear boots after rain. There is a fishing pond that turns into a skating pond in winter, a prairie, soccer fields, a playground and picnic spots.

Winter is a good time here: besides skating, the park is used for cross-country skiing and sledding. The Park Next Door lists it as open daily from 6am to 10pm, but that page is undated, so check the county's site for current hours. You need a Washington County parks pass to visit, which you can buy through the county's parks site before you go.

Dheinsville Park, history with an archery range

Dheinsville Park is the village's historic site, 9.5 acres at the six-way crossroads of Fond du Lac Avenue, Holy Hill Road and Maple Road, about 2.2 miles northwest of Main Street.

Dheinsville Historic Park

The village and the Germantown Historical Society bought the land in 1994, and the society has since restored the settlement's buildings, including the Bast Bell Museum, the 1862 Christ Church and the Wolf Haus. The hamlet itself dates from 1842, when the Philip Dhein family settled here.

As a park, it has an archery range, a community garden, a soccer field, picnic tables and restrooms, and the Muehl Family Festhalle can be rented for events.

Its big weekend is Oktoberfest, on the last weekend of September, which in 2026 was free and included entry to all three museums. Pair the park with the bell museum and the rest of Germantown's sights.

Haupt Strasse Park for pickleball and skating

Haupt Strasse Park, whose name means Main Street Park, is a 13-acre neighborhood park at Main Street and Western Avenue, about half a mile west of the Main Street core.

Haupt Strasse Pickleball Courts

The park holds the village's only pickleball courts, four permanent courts with windscreens, run by Parks and Recreation with no fees to play. It also has the village's only skate park.

A lighted softball field gets heavy use from adult and youth leagues, so expect games in season, and there is a playground and a shelter for the rest of the family.

From the courts, a cone at Robert's on Mequon Road is about 0.75 miles away.

Kinderberg Park for small kids

Kinderberg Park, which the village translates as Children's Hill, is the park to pick with young kids. It covers 23 acres and has a 1,200-square-foot sprayground, which the village describes as the community's only aquatic facility. There is also a sledding hill for winter, four tennis courts, two soccer fields, a baseball diamond, a playground, restrooms and an indoor and outdoor shelter you can rent.

The village's older parks inventory places it off Donges Bay Road.

Firemen's Park and the Fourth of July

Firemen's Park is a 17-acre park between Fond du Lac Avenue and Freistadt Road that the Germantown Volunteer Fire Company first bought and developed, and the village took it over in 1991. It hosts the annual Fourth of July celebration, and it has Gehl's Performing Arts Pavilion, a bocce court, a Veterans Memorial and the Germantown Senior Center. With paved paths and a playground in central Germantown, it also works as a quick stop on an ordinary afternoon.

In past years the village's Christmas festival has finished here, with hot chocolate, cookies and Santa after the parade, so check the village's calendar each winter.

Other village parks

The village lists about 20 parks and facilities in all, and a few more are worth knowing. Friedenfeld Park is the sports complex, with baseball and flag football fields. Alt Bauer Park on Wagon Trail has a basketball court and gravel and asphalt paths. Islands described Friedenfeld in 2026 as a smaller park with baseball diamonds and a play area, and put the village's park system at more than 300 acres.

For produce rather than playgrounds, Vibrant Gardens is an organic garden farm about 2 miles northeast of Main Street that grows peppers and tomatoes.

Quieter parks: river paths, disc golf and a fishing pier

The village's parks inventory, which carries photos from 2017, lists several smaller parks. Schoen Laufen Park, 39 acres along the Menomonee River at Maple Road and Lilac Lane, is an environmental park with gravel paths and a shelter. Spassland Park, 20 acres in the south of the village, has a 9-hole disc golf course, tennis and basketball courts and sand volleyball. Weidenbach Park, a 4-acre play lot in the southwest corner, has a small fishing pond with a pier.

The biggest piece of village land on the list is the Wilderness Area, about 200 acres at the headwaters of the Little Menomonee River in the northeast corner, left as open land with no facilities. Since that inventory is a few years old, check the village's facilities page before you go looking for a specific court or pier.

Which park for which day

With a dog, go to Homestead Hollow. With a toddler in summer, go to Kinderberg for the sprayground. With a teenager and a skateboard, or a paddle, go to Haupt Strasse. With visitors who like history, go to Dheinsville, and time it for the last weekend of September if you can. And for a long walk with no agenda, Homestead Hollow's wooded trails again, in boots.

Booking a shelter and nearby green space

Village park shelters, the Festhalle and other rentals go through the Park and Recreation office at (262) 250-4710, open weekdays from 8am to 4:30pm. Homestead Hollow's shelters and barn are booked through Washington County instead.

If you want more trails, Mequon is about 4 miles east, with an observation tower and four preserves among the parks and nature areas in Mequon.