Elm Park (aka, Library Park)
900 Block of West Main Street
Elm Park (Library Park to the locals) is right on the shore along the walking trail that runs 26 miles around the entire lake. Hills and forests provide the backdrop, and in October, the scenery will be be breathtaking!
While there will be no food vendors for 2023, there are many local eateries within a block or two. Parking is plentiful and near. The library features modern restroom facilities, and there are modern restrooms at the wharf end of the park.
Portable toilets will be stationed throughout the rest of the park as well.
link to event schedule
Event: Dragon Days™ Dedication / Opening Ceremony
Friday: 5 pm to 6 pm
The Gygax Memorial Fund cordially invites you to the Dedication / Opening Ceremony of the Dragon Days™ Fantasy Festival!
Invitees include Gygax family members, friends, former TSR employees, The City of Lake Geneva Mayor and other officials, press, fans, and the general public.
Potions & Dragons will be served (refreshments and dragon-shaped cookies).
Event: Dragon Days™ Fantasy Faire
Saturday: 10 am to 5 pm, Sunday: 10 am to 5 pm
Hear ye! Hear ye! The Dragon Days™ Fantasy Faire will sweep you into a land of fantasy and imagination! Explore the fine handcrafted wares of our costumed merchants. Delight in the medieval street characters, musicians, and other performers! Wear your own costume or buy one and enter the costume contest. Play games, have your face painted as a fairy or goblin, and trick or treat in our bazaar of merchants!
Event: Dragon Days™ Castle Maze
Saturday: 10 am to 5 pm, Sunday: 10 am to 5 pm
Come explore our maze at the Dragon Days™ Castle! Adventurers of all ages are called to seek treasure in the depths of our labyrinthine dungeons. Will you encounter a monster while lost in the maze? Will you find gold? Or perhaps a magic sword or magic wand? Or even a legendary dragon egg? Adventurers beware of delving too deep, for those treasures will have little value if you cannot escape the Dragon Days™ Castle Maze!
History:
As a boy, looking off across the lake, Elm Park was one of Gary Gygax's favorite spots to daydream. He read books from the Lake Geneva Public Library and imagined worlds beyond Wisconsin. The Gygax Park Bench was dedicated here by the Gygax Memorial Fund on July 27, 2023, the first ever Gary Gygax Day in Lake Geneva. The bench may be found to the south, along the Shore Path in the spot where Gygax once sat, dreaming of one day living in Stone Manor and writing fantasy novels of his own. He realized this dream in the mid–1980s, living in the actual Lake Geneva mansion and writing the fantasy books that made him a New York Times Best-Selling Author several times over. Gygax was a visionary whose passion to share his love of games, science fiction, and fantasy would lead him to create the game that changed the world: Dungeons & Dragons®. The Gygax Memorial Fund has plans that this historic location in Elm Park will be the site of Gary Gygax's memorial: a stone table with a bronze likeness of Gygax seated at one end, where fans may gather around to play a game of D&D®.
Photo by Kevin Maurice