Fun & Learning in the Park...
Left, a Girl Scout campfire program at the Kearney House. Right, having paddled across the river, some of our staff pay a visit to Beczak Environmental Education Center in Yonkers for an end-of-the-season river seining foray...
Above: at a “Dinosaur Egg Hunt” led by our Trail Crew. Below: Emory Davis leads a “Sea Glass Hunt.” Bottom: Eric Nelsen gives a lecture during a public sail on A. J. Meerwald, New Jersey’s official tall ship; upon Meerwald’s arrival back at Alpine Boat Basin, participants are treated to the sight of a “sun dog.”
Children and their parents explore the Park with “Rachel’s Rangers,” a summer hiking series with the staff of the Kearney House. On the first hike, they go to “Cape Fly Away”...
The next hike takes them to “Who Rock” from State Line Lookout (including a glimpse of some unusual “graffiti” at Ruckman Point)...
The third hike (after starting out with an unusual visitor in the parking area) takes the group along the shore to explore old bathing beaches and a 19th-century cemetery hidden in the Park...
Bill Boesenberg of “Snakes-N-Scales and Turtle Tales” presents a program at State Line Lookout with Blue, an American alligator, Daisy, an albino Burmese python, and Ainu, a Nile crocodile.
A fundraiser at the Alpine Pavilion for the NAACP, including jazz legend Max Lucas on tenor sax.
“Mad about Hawks”…Jonathan Wood and the Raptor Project visit State Line Lookout for a program…
07/12/2010
2010 Area Information & Fee Schedule (.pdf file, 4 pages)
