SUAMICO, Wis. — Many families are spending the Labor Day weekend outdoors, despite record-breaking heat across the state.
Temperatures at the Brown County Reforestation Camp were expected to climb into the mid-90s and even with Mother Nature cranking up humidity, camper John Bauer said the holiday heatwave didn’t derail his family’s plans.
“It doesn’t bother me, and it’ll bother some other people, but I like the heat,” Bauer said.
Bauer said his family planned to beat the heat by having an early breakfast when it’s cooler outside and stayed under their reflective shelter.
“You get the tents up here and everything else,” he said. “Keeps you out of the sun. Keeps you a little cooler.”
Pete Borchardt, Reforestation Camp host, said even with heat advisories they were booked this Labor Day weekend.
“We are busy. We have two sites available, and most people book about a month to two months in advance, sometimes even a year,” Borchardt said.
Borchardt said campers pack this site because there’s an abundance of lush green coverage and nearby lakes providing natural relief from scorching temperatures.
“We have plenty of trees. So, there’s plenty of shade. We get a breeze from Green Bay, but sometimes it does get stale here. With that, we have kayaking close by,” Borchardt said. “You can hit up the water park in Green Bay and people mostly can just walk into the trails go into the forest here and cool off. It’s about 10 degrees cooler once you get into the woods.”
That’s good news for Bauer and his family.
“We don’t have a beach here, but we’ll find other things to do,” Bauer said.
Although Bauer and his family were looking forward to the temperatures, he said if it gets too unbearable they have other plans to keep cool.
“We can have the kids spray us with water and screw around a little bit,” Bauer said. “We have air conditioning. So it really doesn’t bother us all that much.”
