Sun 9/19 @10AM-1PM
The Nature Center at Shaker Lakes is celebrating the 55th anniversary of its founding, which was driven in large part by the determination of neighborhood residents to save the Shaker Lakes area from being ripped apart by a freeway. They successfully preserved this natural area, with the Nature Center recently adding a new and renovated trails and other enhancements for people to enjoy the outdoors.
Its Fall Festival this weekend will give people of all ages the chance to explore some of those new additions and find out what the Nature Center has to offer. There’ll be several guided hikes (or you can take your own) to kick off the fall hiking series.
There’ll also be food and a “libation station,” kids’ activities and crafts, live and DJ music, an art show, a story walk, pumpkin painting, a scavenger hunt and a mini-edition of the Nature Center’s Spring Plant Sale, featuring a limited selection of native perennials, including ones they don’t usually have at the spring sale. Among other things, they’ll have milkweed which people are being urged to plant to help restore the Monarch butterfly population.