Your Guide to Fox Point’s Beer-Garden Season (2025)

New Barons Brewing Cooperative teamed up with the Village of Fox Point to bring a beer garden to Longacre Pavilion

The Fox Point Beer Garden at Longacre Pavilion (7343 N. Longacre Rd.) is starting the party a month early this year on Saturday, April 26, 2–7 pm. Below is everything you need to plan the opening weekend—and the rest of your beer-garden summer on Milwaukee’s North Shore:

• Date & Time: Saturday, April 26, 2 – 7 pm

• Location: Longacre Pavilion, 7343 N. Longacre Rd., Fox Point

• What’s Happening:

  • Live music from Mitch Bell

  • Tacos and more from Romero’s Taco Truck

  • Fresh taps from New Barons Brewing Cooperative

  • Pick up the full summer schedule and snag a member mug for discounted refills all season

Bring a lawn chair or blanket—the pavilion seating fills up fast—and let the kids roam the adjacent green space while you ease into summer.

How Fox Point’s Beer Garden Took Root

New Baron Coop’s Taps

Fox Point teamed up with community-owned New Barons Brewing Cooperative in 2022, transforming Longacre Pavilion—the winter ice-skating warming house—into a lakeside beer garden on select weekends each summer. The village program quickly became a Friday-night tradition, pairing local craft beer with rotating food trucks and family-friendly live music. In 2024, most sessions ran 5–9 pm on alternating Fridays, with a handful of Saturday festivals—expect a similar cadence this year. Seating is limited; regulars bring lawn chairs or picnic blankets and let kids roam the adjacent green space.

Good to know

• Longacre has restrooms inside the pavilion

• Last call is 30 minutes before closing; carry-in alcohol is prohibited

• Dogs on leash are welcome, and there’s usually water bowls for four-legged friends

Looking Ahead: Traveling Beer Garden Rolls into Fox Point

Craft beer also comes to Fox Point when the Milwaukee County Traveling Beer Garden comes to Fox Point and parks its restored fire-truck bar at Doctors Park from August 6–17, 2025 (weeknights 5–9 pm; weekends & holidays 11 am–9 pm). Expect Sprecher brews, root-beer floats, and evening live music—plus lake-view sunsets from the bluff.

With an early April start and beer gardens in the North Shore all summer long, summer 2025 is shaping up to be the best beer-garden season yet on Milwaukee’s North Shore. Prosit!