Welcoming Spring
January 30, 2026
Let us go on a brisk hike to welcome in spring! Approximately 1-mile hike, hiking shoes recommended.
Let us go on a brisk hike to welcome in spring! Approximately 1-mile hike, hiking shoes recommended.
Learn about the coyote, their persecution, and how they manage to be one of America’s most successful carnivores.
Join us for our annual Sugaring off Party!! We will have pancakes and other delectable goodies along with our homemade maple syrup. There will be live tapping demonstrations, and the sugar house will be open to show you how we boil down the sap we have collected to make syrup.
It is that time of year when our amphibians have migrated to their vernal pools and begin to sing their chorus in celebration of warmer weather! Let us check in on this phenomenon.
Join us at Michigan Road to take a guided hike to the Leatherman’s cave and learn about one of Westchester’s most mysterious figures. **Note: Meet at the Michigan Road Lot.
Have you ever seen an animal print and wondered who it could have come from? Come learn all about wildlife tracks!
Find out what foraged edibles are available around the Trailside Nature Museum during this time of year.
Come join us at the Trailside Nature Museum to learn about the Reservation’s lye stone and how it was used in the process of soap making.
by Robyn Graygor Finding a Pink Lady Slipper may spark a yearning for cozier shoes than your rigid hiking boots. It does, after all, resemble a tiny magenta moccasin. The Lady Slipper (Cypripedium acaule) is one of 58 wild orchids found in the northern hemisphere. Standing six to fifteen inches
by Patrick Harmon Spring finally makes its debut with flowers blooming and trees growing their leaves, the landscape transforms into an emerald wonderland as plants come back to life. With the return of such greenery we also see the re-emergence of countless mammals, amphibi-ans, insects, and reptiles. One of these