Tri-County Foray 2025 🔺

Registration is open! Scroll to the bottom of the page to sign up.

August 28 to August 31 (Thursday to Sunday)
With 8/29 Friday & 8/30 Saturday Day Passes available

We will visit trails in Burnett + Washburn + Barron Counties
... based at the American Legion Cumberland, WI !
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Join us for one of the largest fungi forays in the Midwest!  Sign up is at the end of this page.

Tri-County foray is located in the home-region of mycologist, mushroom farmer, NorthWestern MycoEnthusiasts organizer, WMS board member, author and Russula guy, Tavis Lynch. What began as a privately-run event created by him and Melissa Klotka is now organized with the Wisconsin Mycological Society.  At this very family-friendly event you will learn find experts in mycology, foraging and a focus on wild foods!

While you are welcome to make your own accommodations, tickets include an option to camp at our booked camping and RV sites that will be shared among our group. 

(actual picture from our camp site)

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At the foray there will be: 

A VIP Plant Hike with Sam Thayer you can sign up for (at a small extra fee)

Sam will take the group into the wilderness for about 2 hours to discuss wild plants that you can find all around you.  

You never know where you are going to end up when Sam gets going.  He might end up jumping into a marsh with the cattails and show you how to find wapato, or he might even go to the edge of a lawn to show you what lies there waiting to be discovered, but no matter WHAT it will be an adventure! 

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Cooking Wild Foods 
 
Chris Gavin will lead us through a cooking demonstration that tells us about his favorite wild foods. Chris is an avid outdoorsman and forager, and he creates the most incredible meals that were gathered and hunted by his own hands. 

At the end, we will get to taste them! 
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Last year we were lucky enough to even get to take some of them home! 
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Join us for our Wild Foods pot luck lunch and try some of the most amazing wild foods from your fellow foray attendees! 
What else do we offer? 
More 2025 programming is still being worked out, but you can count on:
- Fungi-fabulous forays led by Wisconsin's foremost experts
- Tables of collected fungi to be identified and examined
- Cultivation demos
- Lectures
- Two catered sit-down dinners by the Hilltop Resort included
- A UV Night Hike to look at UV-fluorescent fungi (including lichen!)
- Great conversation with long-time mycology enthusiasts and new learners alike
Ticket prices for Tri-County Foray 2025

For all tickets, camping is included. There is no extra cost for tent campers.

To bring a camper/van, add $35 if the camper/van is under 20ft long or $55 for over 20ft long camper/van.

For adults (18+)

- Thursday to Sunday - $ 165

- Friday day pass - $ 85

- Saturday day pass - $ 85

For children ages 12 to 17

- Thursday to Sunday - $ 50

-  Friday day pass - $ 30

- Saturday day pass - $ 30

For children under the age of 12

These attendees still need to register separately, but there is no cost!

Just fill in the form with the name and other info for the child and it will "charge" you $0 to register at the end.

VIP Plant Walk with Sam Thayer
this is an add-on event
 
- Adults 18 years or over - adds $ 50

- Kids 17 and under - Free + must be accompanied by at least 1 adult guardian who has registered for the Plant Walk. Still please mark "yes" for Sam Thayer's plant walk when registering a child.

All other events are free with registration and don't require separate sign-up