{"id":1480,"date":"2020-12-07T13:50:33","date_gmt":"2020-12-07T19:50:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.building38.org\/wp\/?p=1480"},"modified":"2020-12-07T13:50:33","modified_gmt":"2020-12-07T19:50:33","slug":"esther-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.building38.org\/wp\/2020\/12\/07\/esther-beach\/","title":{"rendered":"Esther Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Esther Beach Park is located on the south shore of Lake Monona in Madison. It has a nice beach and a new shelter house (constructed in 2018) and a pretty amazing view of downtown Madison across the lake. The official address of the park is 2802 Waunona Way.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s not much to say about the park itself; it&#8217;s really a pretty small park and it&#8217;s all about the beach. It&#8217;s kind of like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cityofmadison.com\/parks\/find-a-park\/park.cfm?id=1344\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Spring Harbor Beach Park<\/a> on Lake Mendota.<\/p>\n<p>Here is my usual walking route:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1481\" style=\"width: 554px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.building38.org\/wp\/2020\/12\/07\/esther-beach\/2020-12-07-walk\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1481\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1481\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1481\" src=\"https:\/\/www.building38.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/2020-12-07-walk.jpg\" alt=\"Route map of Esther Beach PArk and the surrounding area\" width=\"544\" height=\"218\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.building38.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/2020-12-07-walk.jpg 544w, https:\/\/www.building38.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/2020-12-07-walk-300x120.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 544px) 100vw, 544px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1481\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Walking route in the Esther Beach area on 2020-12-07<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I park in the small lot at Esther Beach when possible, but sometimes it&#8217;s just easier to park on Esther Beach Road. I head up Esther Beach Road towards the Beltline and then turn right onto Nana Lane. I continue on Nana Lane past Ethelwyn Road, and which point Nana Lane magically becomes Harriman Lane. I have no idea why the name changes at this point. I follow Harriman Lane to the intersection with Waunona Way. I usually will turn left and walk to the end of Waunona Way and then onto the Capital City Bike Path for a bit. Then I turn around and head back to Esther Beach on Waunona Way.<\/p>\n<p>The total walk is about 1.2 or 1.3 miles. It is uphill on Esther Beach Road and the first part of Nana Lane, but otherwise it&#8217;s mostly rolling hills along Waunona Way.<\/p>\n<p>Note that Thut Park is located close to this route; it&#8217;s along Nana Lane and east of Esther Beach Road.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cityofmadison.com\/parks\/find-a-park\/park.cfm?id=1173\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Esther Beach Park<\/a> (City of Madison web site)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cityofmadison.com\/parks\/facilities\/beach.cfm?id=4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Esther Beach<\/a> (City of Madison)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cityofmadison.com\/parks\/find-a-park\/park.cfm?id=1358\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Thut Park<\/a> (City of Madison)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Esther Beach Park is located on the south shore of Lake Monona in Madison. It has a nice beach and a new shelter house (constructed in 2018) and a pretty amazing view of downtown Madison across the lake. The official address of the park is 2802 Waunona Way. There&#8217;s not much to say about the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-walking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2XYJm-nS","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.building38.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.building38.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.building38.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.building38.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.building38.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1480"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.building38.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1487,"href":"https:\/\/www.building38.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1480\/revisions\/1487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.building38.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.building38.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.building38.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}