Rennebohm Park is another City of Madison park. Its official location is 115 N Eau Claire Avenue. Its is sort of a long and narrow park that is bounded by N Eau Claire Avenue, N Segoe Road, Regent Street and a series of apartment buildings that face Sheboygan Avenue. The Sheboygan Community Garden is in the park, along with a shelter house that is accessible from N Eau Claire Avenue.

The park is named after Oscar Rennebohm who served as lieutenant governor and governor of Wisconsin and later served on the UW Board of Regents. He died in 1968.

I enjoy walking in Rennebohm Park – the paths are all paved and there are usually quite a few people out walking, or playing soccer or on the tennis courts. Here’s a map showing a typical walk.

Walking route in Rennebohm Park on 2021-02-25

I usually park along Eau Claire Avenue, near the intersection with Sheboygan Avenue. then I walk along Eau Claire Avenue to Regent Street and then head east along Regent to the second paved path. This loops back a bit and then heads east to Segoe Road behind some apartment buildings. Then up Segoe Road to Sheboygan Avenue and back to the car. On this walk I made a little diversion through the American Red Cross parking lot.

This walk was about 1.4 miles. It’s easy to lengthen the walk a little by walking on Door Drive and Buffalo Trail.

• City of Madison’s Rennebohm Park page
• Oscar Rennebohm from Wikipedia
• About Oscar from the Rennebohm Foundation