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Milwaukee's best bubbler
I give this bubbler a 9 on the Public Hydration Scale.  
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Tags: bubbler, drinking fountain, back bay park

I've slurped water from hundreds, maybe thousands, of Milwaukee bubblers, but every time I take a drink from the one in Back Bay Park I think to myself, "This is a damn fine bubbler. Perhaps the city's finest." (Or something like that.)

So, if you, like me, are a connoisseur of the bubbler, this is worth noting.

Back Bay Park, on on Terrace Avenue on Milwaukee's East Side, has a small-but-mighty bubbler that's a popular stopping place for runners, rollerbladers and playground kids and their parents. In my experience, it is always cold -- but not too cold -- and just the right amount of pressure. (I hate wimpy bubbler dribble or when it arcs too high and blasts you in the face.)

This town has other bubblers worth bending over for, and perhaps you know of one. If so, enlighten us via the Talkback feature.

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*LD*runner once, we were on a class trip in DC, and we were all like WHERES THE BUBBLER? ...
Arose Another great one is located in Lake Park inside the community room underneath ...
Molly Disappointing to hear the water was too warm. I am usually there in the early ...
alba I tried the Back Bay Park bubbler on Sunday. Great water pressure but way too ...
llpierce jakkalope - there's a valid reason why we call them bubblers - there used to ...


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