Who it's for
International students, students from warm-climate states, and anyone for whom a $200 winter coat is a real barrier in October. Gear is borrowed for the whole season, not by the day, and cleaned between borrowers.
How it's stocked
A mix of a small annual budget, a coat drive each fall, and good-condition items left behind at residence-hall move-out and reclaimed rather than landfilled — which is why it sits under the sustainability office.
In and around Porter Falls
Porter Falls sits on the Porter River, and the university's sustainability commitments are mostly about water and heat: the Millrace restoration, rain gardens, and fourteen buildings surviving a Wesconsin winter as efficiently as possible.
The practical details
Where: Outdoor Adventures desk, Ironhouse Athletic Center. Cost: Free; return by the end of the spring semester. Stock: Coats, insulated boots, snow pants, hats, gloves, in a full size range. Anything time-sensitive — an accommodation, a booking, a deadline — is worth confirming directly before you rely on it, because the specifics here can change from term to term.
If you have a question
The office behind this is Office of Sustainability (Founders Union, Room 015). Call (715) 555–0240 or email sustainability@uwporterfalls.edu during the fall and spring terms, or sign in to MyPorter to send a message or book a time. If it turns out another office owns the question, they will route it rather than send you back to the start.
Fictional information
UW–Porter Falls is a work of parody. Every office, person, building, phone number and statistic on this page is invented; nothing here describes a real institution or a service you can actually contact.