New Adventures, New Moments
New Adventures, New Moments: An Easier Walking Series with Spanish Interpretation begins April 27!
Conserving Carolina is pleased to announce a series of four easy walks led by guides who can speak Spanish and English. New Adventures, New Moments was created with the objective of appreciating nature among community. This series is designed to offer short, easy to moderate walks on relatively level trails.
These walks will take place across the Conservancy’s service area, in Henderson, Transylvania, and Polk Counties. Join us on public lands that Conserving Carolina has helped to protect and create, including DuPont State Recreational Forest, the Park at Flat Rock, Vaughn Creek Greenway, and the Brevard Greenway.
For the first walk, on Saturday April 27, we will explore bird activity on the Brevard Greenway from 9AM-11AM. At this time of year, many migratory songbirds from Central and South America are returning to the area to breed and raise their young. This walk offers a great opportunity to see some of these beautiful neotropical species. The Brevard Greenway runs 4.8 miles from the Davidson River Campground in Pisgah National Forest to McLean Street in Brevard, but for this walk, the group will be exploring a total of about 1-2 miles of the level, paved trail.
On Saturday, May 25, 9AM-11AM, the second walk will take place at Vaughn Creek Greenway in Polk County. This easy 1.6-mile round-trip trail follows Vaughn Creek along a level trail that leads walkers through a beautiful, wooded area, with a small waterfall visible mid-trip.
The third walk will take place on Saturday, June 29, at The Park at Flat Rock, in Henderson County, from 9AM-11AM. Participants will explore 1-2 miles of the local park and learn about non-native and invasive plant species, the reason we care about them, how to identify them, and some of the ways we can control them. The trails at The Park at Flat Rock are flat and wide throughout the park.
Lastly, on July 27, participants will head to DuPont State Recreational Forest, in Henderson County but near Brevard, for a 3-mile round-trip walk to Wintergreen Falls, from 9AM-12PM. The easy to moderate trail leaves from the Guion Falls Access Area and meanders through a shaded forest. The relatively level trail descends slightly for about 1.5-miles to the 25-foot waterfall, Wintergreen Falls. Then participants will return the same way, ascending back, 1.5-miles to the trailhead for a 3-mile round trip.
Registration is required. For more information or to register, visit Conserving Carolina’s calendar of events at conservingcarolina.org/calendar.
Conserving Carolina, your local land trust, is dedicated to protecting and stewarding land and water resources vital to our natural heritage and quality of life and to fostering appreciation and understanding of the natural world. For more info visit, www.conservingcarolina.org.