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Start: 2026-12-11
End: 2026-12-11

Chippewa Valley's famous homemade cheesecake, macarons, hot chocolate bombs, sticky rolls, and more. Josef's Cheesecakes has made over 450 flavors of cheesecake and counting. Perfect for all occasions including weddings, corporate events, dinner parties, baby showers, and so much more.

Josef's Cheesecakes

Spring Street Sports in Chippewa Falls, WI specializes in bicycle sales and repairs, ski & snowboard sales & waxing, snowshoe sales and repairs, outdoor apparel, bicycle and XC ski rentals, and bicycle and ski clinics.

Spring Street Sports

Bubbles BBQ smokes their own meats – including brisket, ribs, pulled pork, and pulled chicken – and they make their own sauces. Available for catering almost every event, large or small, from your backyard, business, sporting event or your wedding!

Bubbles BBQ Food Truck

Satisfy your sweet tooth with the best candies, chocolates, and soft-serve ice cream in the area with the Chippewa Candy Shop!

Chippewa Candy Shop

Heyde Center needs volunteers mainly to help with box office, ticket taking and concessions. Once in a while we have lunch and a show and dinner and a show so we need extra volunteers to help our caterers, seat our guests ect. Recruiting: Both Adults and Youth Desired Age Range: 18+ Physical Restrictions or Requirements? Yes, we do also take youth under age 18 but at our events we do require them to be with an adult. Length of Volunteer Opportunities: Event Volunteer Schedule: Weekdays, Weekends, Daytimes, Evenings Estimated Hours Per Week: About 3 hours per event. We do not always have plays, concerts, performances and meal with show going on in the building. No required orientation and/or training No required experience and/or skills

Heyde Center for the Arts

Monster Scoop Ice Cream offers high-quality homemade ice cream made mostly from scratch. The portions are monster-sized with competitive prices. Monster Scoop ICe Cream has a location in both Eau Claire and Chippewa Falls.

Monster Scoop Ice Cream Chippewa Falls

Hidden Acres is a Pick-Your-Own Blueberry Farm.

Hidden Acres Berry Farm

The Town of Union Conservancy is a large, wooded area featuring eight trails of various lengths and challenges along the Chippewa River. It is located off White Pine Drive just south of Crescent Avenue. While the Conservancy is a resource to locals and tourists, it's also a learning center to educate the public about the area's ecological, cultural and geologic history.

Town of Union Conservancy

Wheaton Park consists of 63 acres with a large portion being wooded and has many amenities to offer the outdoor enthusiast including: updated playground equipment, pickleball courts, tennis court, basketball court, gaga ball, ball fields, batting cages, and reservable pavilions!

For winter recreation, Wheaton Park has 1.5 miles of [snowshoe trails](https://www.visiteauclaire.com/things-to-do/outdoors/winter-recreation/snowshoe-trails/), a [sledding hill](https://www.visiteauclaire.com/things-to-do/outdoors/winter-recreation/sledding/), [ice skating](https://www.visiteauclaire.com/things-to-do/outdoors/winter-recreation/ice-skating/) rink and [snowmobile](https://www.visiteauclaire.com/things-to-do/outdoors/winter-recreation/snowmobiling-trails/) trailer parking with trail access.

Find a map of the park's trail system and directory [here](https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=15IcZ1M35NTuaOo8WQ5Umm-bbVIF-eCo&ll=44.89654130398708%2C-91.59251950000001&z=16).

Wheaton Park

This 63-acre park in the nearby town of Wheaton has 1.5 miles of snowshoe trails, a sledding hill, ice skating rink and snowmobile trailer parking with trail access. Sleds are also available for public use at the sliding hills, provided by a local Scout group.

Located in western Wisconsin, Eau Claire offers sports planners a destination that's easy to reach, easy to navigate, and ready to host. Just 90 minutes from the Minneapolis–St. Paul area and within driving distance of Chicago, Eau Claire is well positioned to welcome teams, athletes, and fans from across the Midwest.

A versatile mix of indoor and outdoor venues supports events across a wide range of sports and competition levels, with tournament-ready fields, courts, ice facilities, pools, trails, and large-scale indoor spaces. Hotels, restaurants, venues, and visitor amenities are conveniently located throughout the community, making it easy for teams to get where they need to be throughout the event.

Visit Eau Claire's sports team works alongside event organizers to help bring the details together, connecting planners with venues, accommodations, local resources, and destination support.

And there's plenty waiting beyond the competition. Eau Claire's walkable downtown, local restaurants and breweries, miles of trails, public art, live music, family attractions, and the Chippewa River give athletes and their families more to experience between games and after the final whistle.

Eau Claire has the facilities to host the event and the destination experience to make the trip worth it.**** Bring the competition, bring the crowd, and come as you are — Eau Claire is ready to host.

Visit Eau Claire

Come in from the cold and celebrate Christmas with Altoona Lutheran Ministry. Enjoy the lights and a variety of Nativity displays, beautiful and peaceful Christmas Music, Free Cookies, Cocoa and Crafts for the entire family. Live Music and Narration 5:30 to 7:30 PM.

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