This park, which technically now has the official name of “Museum Center Park,” sits at the eastern edge of downtown at the end of E Wisconsin Avenue. It’s a beautiful site with great vistas: to the east, you see the futuristic white form of the Milwaukee Art Museum set before the blue background of Lake Michigan; to the west you look straight down a street lined with both modern and historic buildings in a vibrant urban fabric. This park is probably more pleasant in warmer weather than in colder. I appreciated the breezes that swept off the lake, but I can definitely see that adding a tough wind chill to already-cold temperatures in winter. Anyway, you can access the art museum via a footbridge that leads from O’Donnell Park directly to the entrance; you can also descend staircases on either side of the footbridge to reach Lincoln Memorial Drive and the lakeshore down below.

This is a two block long green space in which you could either walk through or sit and have your lunch. On the end of downtown, you can see Lake Michigan, the Milwaukee Art Museum, and the War Memorial You will also see the O'Donnell Sculpture, variously called the asterisk and the orange thing.