Sun 8/24-Sat 8/30
Access to clean water is essential for life and health, as the Cleveland Metroparks will be reminding us during World Water Week. Sunday August 20-Saturday August 30. It’s an essential park of protecting our environment.
To celebrate and educate, the Metroparks is offering a bunch of activities for all ages, including hikes, educational programs and even a rubber ducky race.
It starts on Sunday August 24 with a hike at Tinker’s Creek at the Bedford Reservation and a program called “The Cuyahoga River’s Journey from Flaming to Free-Flowing,” with Jeff Opperman at West Creek Reservation’s Watershed Stewardship Center (4pm). On Monday August 25, hike the High Point Trail at Euclid Creek Reservation or take a walking tour of the former Haydite Mine site with West Creek Conservancy from 6-7:30pm.
The West Creek Wednesdays program on August 27 @ 5-8pm will look at the fisheries of the Cuyahoga River and Lake Erie. There’s a drop-in science program on Friday August 29, and the Rubber Ducky Race wraps things up on Saturday August 30. Visitors can paint rubber ducks to look like native duck species, and a naturalist will lead the proceedings to share how to measure water speed using the rubber ducks. That takes place at the Watershed Stewardship Center from 2-3pm. Closed-toe shoes are essential. All programs are free.