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Come be part of our citizen science team that is actively monitoring butterfly populations at Trail Lake Park. We’ll teach you how to identify these winged masterpieces on the fly.

This monthly program allows you to check off part of the Wild Hikes Challenge in the company of people that love hiking and nature as much as you do. Get one step closer to earning your medallion!

The Headwaters Trail has a crushed limestone surface.

Growing up can come with some big emotions! Join us to better understand our emotions, develop empathy and resilience, and learn effective coping skills from our NAMI partner! Designed for children in grades K-2. 

Immerse yourself in the sounds of nature to celebrate the solstice as an instructor leads you through a beginner friendly yoga routine.

Celebrate the summer solstice and nature’s beauty with an outdoor sound bath.  Bring a chair, mat, or blanket and enjoy a relaxing guided meditation and sounds of the forest along with crystal bowls and other instruments of healing.  No experience necessary, all are welcome.

How do you make an oak tree laugh? Tell it acorn-y joke. Walk and share your favorite family-friendly nature puns just in time for Father’s Day, because the only thing better than dad jokes are nature dad jokes – you better beleaf it.

This Happy Hour Hike with the Portage Park District Foundation is actually a Yappy Hour Hike! North Water Brewing is dog friendly, so bring your pup along! Meet at North Water Brewing for a hike on the PORTAGE Hike & Bike Trail, then back for a beverage.

How many of the 11 turtles found in Ohio have you encountered? Whether is all 11 or just 1, join us to learn all about these incredible creatures.

This is an indoor program. 

Learn how to read the landscape with Natural Areas Steward Chris Poling as he teaches how to do a plant survey with conservation in mind while sharing general field botany tips and tricks.

Join us for a generational hike to bring the Junior Rangers and Seniors together!

The Morgan Park meadow trail is a flat, crushed limestone path. 

HOO! Wants to learn more about Ohio’s incredible owls? Join friends at Dix Park to engage in nature play while discovering fun adaptations that owls use to survive.

Insects are abuzz at Morgan Park and our challenge this month is to capture their hard work in photographs. All skill levels welcome!

The Morgan Park meadow trail is a flat, crushed limestone path. 

The big migration wave is over but summer is a great time to learn about fledglings and molting. New to birding? Binoculars will be available to borrow.

Seneca Ponds has natural surface trails.

Portage County Health District will join us to give registrants new helmets so they can make the most of their summer adventures safely. Giveaway will be followed by a family friendly bike ride.

Pollinator Specialist and former Kent State Professor Bob Heath will guide us around Morgan Park to net, identify, and learn about all of the wonderful species that play a role in the health of the meadow.

As America celebrates its 250^th, we’ll shine a spotlight on our national symbol of freedom.