OC PARKS SEPTEMBER 2018 CALENDAR OF EVENTS
September 1 – Free Fishing Days
If yous are novel to the sport of fishing, together with non certain if yous volition taste it, a dandy chance awaits you. California Department of Fish together with Wildlife offering 2 Free Fishing Days each year. On these days, yous tin lavatory fish without a sport line-fishing license. Free Fishing Days render a great, low-cost means to give line-fishing a try.
Location: Mile Square Park. 16801 Euclid St., Fountain Valley, CA 92708
Cost: Free
Parking: $5 per vehicle
Contact: (714)973-3197
September 1 – Wilderness Access Day: Black Star Canyon
8 a.m. – 2 p.m.
Black Star Canyon offers pleasant introductory trails for beginner hikers together with families, together with challenging experiences for seasoned trail users. Designated trails are available for self-guided access for hiking, biking together with equestrian utilisation past times connecting diverse loops to offering extended exploration throughout the canyons. Take fourth dimension to explore the local flora communities together with beautiful scenery inwards piece of cake 30-minute walks or take hold inwards vii miles inwards a potent cardio trek.
Location: Black Star Canyon Wilderness Park, Baker Staging Area
Cost: Free
Parking: Free
Contact: (714) 973-6607
Special Instructions: Parking is express on Black Star Canyon Road together with carpooling is strongly encouraged. Participants are required to rest on designated trails at all times. Registration is required, sign upwardly online at www.letsgooutside.org/wad.
September 1 – Wilderness Access Day: Black Star Canyon, Equestrian
8 a.m. – 2 p.m.
Discover the history institute along the trails inwards beautiful Black Star together with Baker Canyons from the dorsum of your horse. Designated trails volition live opened upwardly for self-guided hiking, biking together with equestrian use, where yous tin lavatory arrive at several peaks to persuasion the local canyon terrain or meander along unmarried tracks through the thick chaparral brush. Riders who take hold trail riding sense with a gibe together with able Equus caballus volition taste choosing routes from piece of cake 30-minute walks to strenuous vii mile loops.
Location: Black Star Canyon Wilderness Park, Baker Staging Area
Cost: Free
Parking: Free
Special Instructions: There is express infinite for equestrian parking along Black Star Canyon Road, carpooling is strongly encouraged. Riders must also take hold the powerfulness to carry their Equus caballus to the staging area. It is initiative off come, initiative off served for trailer parking together with thence pre-registration together with early on arrival is HIGHLY recommended. Registration is required, sign upwardly online at www.letsgooutside.org/wadequestrian.
September 1 – Caspers Park Foundation Monthly Meeting
9:30 a.m. – 12 p.m.
The Caspers Park Foundation hosts its monthly coming together inwards the Caspers Wilderness Park Nature Center. Please bring together for an interactive verbalize with a special guest.
Location: Ronald W. Caspers Wilderness Park. 33401 Ortega Highway, San Juan Capistrano, CA 92675
Cost: Free
Parking: $5 per vehicle
Contact: (949) 923-2210
Special Instructions: Please contact the common role for to a greater extent than data at (949) 923-2210.
September 1 – Volunteer Led Hike
12 – 1 p.m.
Join Caspers Park Foundation volunteers for a 1-mile guided nature hike inwards the beautiful Bell Canyon expanse of Caspers Wilderness Park. The hike volition terminal about 1 hr together with is suitable for all ages.
Location: Ronald W. Caspers Wilderness Park. 33401 Ortega Highway, San Juan Capistrano, CA 92675. Meet at the Old Corral Day Use Area.
Cost: Free
Parking: $5 per vehicle
Contact: (949) 923-2210
Special Instructions: Please contact common role for hike updates together with cancellations.
September 1 – Snakes of Orange County
7:15 – 8:45 p.m.
OC Parks invites yous to bring together local herpetologist Steve Bledsoe at O’Neill Regional Park to larn all most snakes that tin lavatory live institute inwards Orange County. This family-friendly outcome volition characteristic a alive reptile display with local serpent species. Come larn how to position snakes, where they alive together with what to produce when yous encounter 1 on common trails. There volition also live an informative presentation on rattlesnakes institute inwards Orange County.
Location: O’Neill Regional Park. 30892 Trabuco Canyon Road, Trabuco Canyon, CA 92678
Cost: Free
Parking: Free
Contact: (949) 923-2260
Special Instructions: Meet at the Nature Center at 7:15 p.m. For to a greater extent than data visit: www.ocparks.com/snakesofoc.
September 2, 9, 16, 23, thirty – Ranger Led Hike
8 – 9:15 a.m.
Join OC Parks rangers for a 1-mile nature hike inwards the beautiful Bell Canyon expanse of Caspers Wilderness Park. The hike volition terminal about 1 hr together with is suitable for all ages.
Location: Ronald W. Caspers Wilderness Park. 33401 Ortega Highway, San Juan Capistrano, CA 92675. Meet at the Old Corral Day Use Area.
Cost: Free
Parking: $5 per vehicle
Contact: (949) 923-2235
Special Instructions: Contact common role for hike updates.
September 4, 11, 18, 25 – Tuesday Morning Fitness Hike on Paved Hicks Haul Road
7:30 – 10 a.m.
Ready for a workout? Forget the gym for the hateful solar daytime together with caput outside! Join us for an exhilarating morning time fitness walk on the paved Hicks Haul Road. This hike allows yous to select betwixt a 3, 6 or 8 mile route, all of which are conducted at the speed of most 3 to 3.5 miles per hour.
Location: Limestone Canyon Wilderness Park, Hicks Haul Road, Jeffrey Staging Area
Cost: Free
Parking: Free
Special Instructions: The route is paved together with the terrain is smooth, so this is a dandy walk for anyone who wants a “wilderness experience” without getting dirty! We volition take hold 2 fairly steep colina ascents together with descents. Along the way, yous volition take hold sweeping views of much of Orange County together with the Santa Ana Mountains. Various animals, similar hawks, deer together with lizards are also oftentimes seen inwards this area. Walkers should live confident inwards their powerfulness to hike 3, 6 or 8 miles at a steady pace. Ages sixteen together with up. Low interpretation. Registration is required, sign upwardly online at www.letsgooutside.org/tuesdaymorninghike.
September iv – Waterworks Trail Restoration: Fremont Canyon
9 – xi a.m.
Please bring together Irvine Ranch Conservancy staff together with volunteers equally nosotros operate to restore together with maintain the dry reason along the novel Waterworks Trail inwards Fremont Canyon! This is a stewardship activity together with duties may include removing invasive plants, watering together with weeding around existing native plants that were planted before inwards the twelvemonth or other similar duties.
Location: Fremont Canyon Nature Preserve, Lot 15. Irvine Regional Park. 1 Irvine Park Rd., Orange, CA 92869
Cost: Free
Parking: Free
Special Instructions: Ages 12 together with up. Participants must have on sturdy, closed-toe shoes together with preferably have on a long-sleeved shirt together with long pants. Participants must also convey their ain H2O equally good equally have on sunscreen together with hats. Registration is required, sign upwardly online at www.letsgooutside.org/waterworks.
September 5, 10, 12, 17, 19, 24, 26 – After Work Fitness Hike on Paved Hicks Haul Road
6 – 7:30 p.m.
Join us every Mon together with Midweek nights for a fitness-focused hike on the paved Hicks Haul Road. During the spring, summertime together with fall, hikers volition taste wonderful sunset views together with a panoramic overview of Orange County.
Location: Limestone Canyon Wilderness Park, Hicks Haul Road, Jeffrey Staging Area
Cost: Free
Parking: Free
Special Instructions: This hike travels most 3.5 miles, upwardly to the top of Loma Ridge together with dorsum down. The hike is conducted at most 3-3.5 miles per hour, but yous may move a chip faster or slower, at a walk, run or jog depending on your comfort level. Most participants complete the route inwards most 1 hour. Because of the paved surface of the road, yous may have on regular running or walking shoes. Trail shoes are fine, but non required. Please convey adequate water! Registration is required, sign upwardly online at www.letsgooutside.org/afterwork.
September 6 – Thursday Morning Trek: Limestone Canyon together with Dripping Springs
7 – 10:30 a.m.
This calendar week inwards the Irvine Ranch Open Space, we’ll hike inwards Limestone Canyon to Dripping Springs. The hike is 7-mile loop hike which includes some hills together with descents. In improver to the springs, nosotros volition taste panoramic views of the wildlands from East Loma.
Location: Limestone Canyon Nature Preserve, Augustine Staging Area
Cost: Free
Parking: Free
Special Instructions: Ages 12 together with up. Please convey water, a trail snack, sunscreen, a hat, together with whatever other necessary equipment to maintain yous prophylactic on the trail, together with have on sturdy, closed-toe hiking boots. Registration is required, sign upwardly online at www.letsgooutside.org/thursdaytrek.
September 6 – Fitness Hike at Ridge Park
8:30 – xi a.m.
Raise your view charge per unit of measurement together with your spirits on this moderate, fast-paced, 6.5 mile hike over steep together with uneven terrain (700 ft. elevation gain) with Laguna Canyon Foundation volunteers.
Location: Laguna Coast Wilderness Park. 18751 Laguna Canyon Road, Laguna Beach, CA 92651. Ridge Park Staging Area (Newport Coast Drive to Ridge Park Rd. eastward to end; run into at the gate.)
Cost: Free
Parking: Free
Contact: (949) 923-2235
Special Instructions: Ages xv together with up. Not for beginners, measuring is about a 19-minute mile. Registration is required, sign upwardly online at www.eventbrite.com/fitnesshike. Please have on hiking shoes together with convey enough of water.
September 6 – Cardio Hike: Mesa Loop
6 – 7:30 p.m.
Join us for a strenuous, extremely challenging, fast-paced, afternoon cardio hike starting inwards Limestone Canyon. Along the means we’ll live rewarded with panoramic views of Orange County together with possible wild fauna sightings.
Location: Black Star Canyon Wilderness Park. Canyons Staging Area
Cost: Free
Parking: Free
Special Instructions: Ages xviii together with up. Please convey a minimum of seventy oz. H2O together with trail snacks. Come prepared with a pack, sturdy closed toed hiking shoes or boots, sunscreen, initiative off aid, together with all other supplies to maintain yous prophylactic together with good for yous on the trail for the extreme fast-paced hike inwards a wilderness area. Registration is required, sign upwardly online at www.letsgooutside.org/cardiohike.
September vii – Baker Canyon Equestrian Ride inwards Black Star Wilderness Area
10 a.m. – 1 p.m.
Take a leisurely double loop equestrian ride through beautiful Baker Canyon inwards the Black Star Wilderness Area, habitation of oak woodlands, grasslands, together with coastal sage scrub.
Location: Black Star Canyon Wilderness Park, Baker Staging Area
Cost: Free
Parking: Free
Special Instructions: Ages sixteen together with up. Riders should take hold trail riding sense together with a gibe together with able horse. They must take hold the powerfulness to carry their Equus caballus to the staging area. Registration is required, sign upwardly online at www.letsgooutside.org/bakercanyonequstrianride.
September 7 – Moana: 2018 OC Parks Sunset Cinema
6 – 10 p.m.
The County of Orange together with OC Parks are pleased to acquaint the annual Sunset Cinema cinema series, featuring xiv gratuitous movies at OC parks across the county. The 2018 OC Parks Sunset Cinema serial continues with Moana at Buff Park at Salt Creek Beach.
Cost: Free
Parking: Free
Contact: (949) 923-2280
Special Instructions: Pack a picnic, blankets, together with beach chairs together with caput to OC Parks Sunset Cinema together with taste recent pop flicks together with innovate the immature ones inwards your life to love classics. All movies are gratuitous to attend, with gratuitous parking get-go at 6 p.m. together with exhibit times starting around 8 p.m. later the Sun has set. Food trucks volition live serving on-site. For the entire Sunset Cinema calendar visit: http://www.ocparks.com/sunsetcinema
September 8 – Native Plant Nursery
8 – xi a.m.
Join Laguna Canyon Foundation volunteers inwards beautiful Laguna Coast Wilderness Park at our native flora plant nursery equally nosotros attention for native plants from their seed phase to their mature, ready-to-be planted stage. Volunteers may collect seeds, sow seeds inwards flats, bump plants up, flora at restoration sites, sterilize flora containers, and/or aid maintain the facilities for the plants. Gain hands-on sense with habitat restoration piece working amongst other zany together with interesting flora lovers!
Location: Laguna Coast Wilderness Park. 18751 Laguna Canyon Rd, Laguna Beach, CA 92651. Willow Canyon Staging Area (west side of Laguna Canyon Rd/SR-133, merely S of El Toro Road).
Cost: Free
Parking: Free parking passes volition live provided at nursery
Contact: (949) 923-2235
Special Instructions: Wear closed toe shoes, layered wearable together with Sun protection. Bring water. Youth ages sixteen together with 17 are eligible to volunteer with parent permission. H5N1 cast is required to live signed past times their parent or guardian prior to starting the volunteer activities. Youth nether the historic flow of sixteen are non eligible to volunteer unless accompanied past times an adult or guardian. For questions, telephone telephone (949) 497-8324 Mon to Fri or (949) 923-2200 Sabbatum together with Sunday. Registration is required, sign upwardly online at www.eventbrite.com/nativeplant.
September 8, 15, 29– It’s Harvest Time! Collect Wildflower Seeds at the Native Seed Farm
8:30 – 11:30 a.m.
Want to stand upwardly human knee deep inwards rows of blooming color? Want to refresh your senses piece giving dorsum to nature? Then sign upwardly to aid behind-the-scenes at the Irvine Ranch Conservancy’s one-of-a-kind Native Seed Farm inwards Irvine! You volition live harvesting seeds from quirky native summertime wildflowers, similar Yellow Pincushion together with California Wishbone Bush. Absolutely no sense or special equipment required! The seeds yous volition pick has a direct impact on our local wildlife. It volition live used out inwards the wild to re-grow animate beingness habitat inside the Irvine Ranch Natural Landmarks. The types you’ll aid harvest were peculiarly selected past times our ecologists to render animals with nutrient together with shelter, together with also to buffer the negative impacts of floods together with wildfires, which deport upon people too. Come aid us harness the special traits of these plants to heal the wildland inside the Landmarks!
Location: Native Seed Farm
Cost: Free
Parking: Free
Special Instructions: Registration is required, sign upwardly online at www.letsgooutside.org/harvesttime. Please greenback our Minors Policy equally noted on the letsgooutside.org website: All minors (under xviii years of age) must live accompanied past times their parent or legal guardian. They must also (both parent together with minor) live registered for the Irvine Ranch Conservancy led programme they wishing to attend.
September 8, 15, 22, 29 – Walk with a Naturalist
9 – 10:30 a.m.
Join O'Neill Regional Park naturalists together with larn most the animals together with nature of Trabuco Canyon. This volition live a lite to moderate walk on by together with large paved roads.
Location: O’Neill Regional Park. 30892 Trabuco Canyon Road, Trabuco Canyon, CA 92678. Meet at Nature Center Patio
Cost: Free
Parking: Free
Contact: (949) 923-2260
Special Instructions: Event is conditional on weather.
September 8 – Family Fossil Day
9:30 – 11:30 a.m.
Family Fossil hateful solar daytime is a hands-on sense for all ages with existent fossils The three-hour programme volition innovate yous to the fossil history of Orange County. Participants historic flow 6 together with older volition also live able to see Clark Regional Park's marine fossil site.
Location: Clark Regional Park. 8800 Rosecrans Ave. Buena Park, CA 90621. Meet at interpretive center.
Cost: Free
Parking: Free
Contact: (714) 973-3170
Special Instructions: Event is pelting or shine. Pack a picninc luncheon together with rest for the hateful solar daytime at the common next the program. For to a greater extent than data visit: www.ocparks.com/familyfossilday.
September 8 – Geology Hike at Dilley
1:30 – 4:30 p.m.
Step dorsum 25 1000000 years inwards Orange County's history to a fourth dimension when the seas receded together with the San Andreas Fault was merely starting to form. With a Laguna Canyon Foundation volunteer naturalist, regain the geologic processes going on today together with how they deport upon the natural landscape. This moderate 3-mile hike is over uneven, steep together with sometimes rocky terrain with a 300 ft elevation gain.
Location: Laguna Coast Wilderness Park, James Dilley Preserve (I-5 or 405 S to 133 S to stoplight at 73 toll road; together with brand a U-turn, expire 1 block. Dilley is on the right).
Cost: Free
Parking: $3 per vehicle
Contact: (949) 923-2240
Special Instructions: For ages xv together with up. Bring water, hiking shoes (hiking poles suggested), snacks, the plain guides of your choice, together with a sense of adventure! Registration is required, sign upwardly online at www.eventbrite.com/geologyhike.
September nine – Second Sundays Restoration Program
9 – 11:30 a.m.
Join save staff together with other volunteers inwards enhancing Upper Newport Bay's habitat for local wildlife. Activities may include non-native flora removal, planting natives, watering, trash removal together with garden maintenance.
Location: Upper Newport Bay Nature Preserve. 2301 University Drive, Newport Beach, CA 92660
Cost: Free
Parking: Free
Contact: (949) 497-8324
Special Instructions: Ages 12 together with up. No sense is necessary. Water together with tools are provided. Minors ages sixteen together with younger must take hold a legal guardian acquaint at all times. Rain cancels event. Registration is required, sign upwardly online at www.letsgooutside.org/secondsunday.
September 9, 30– Beginning Archery Class
9 – 10:30 a.m.
Join Mile Square Park Staff for a get-go archery class for initiative off fourth dimension archers. This class volition include a security instruction together with render yous with an introduction to the sport of archery. All archery equipment volition live provided. Park inwards the overflow parking lot close the archery range.
Location: Mile Square Regional Park. 16801 Euclid St. Fountain Valley, CA 92708
Cost: Free
Parking: Free
Contact: (714) 973-6600
Special Instructions: Event together with parking are both free. Rain volition cancel event. Ages 12 together with up. Children nether xviii years of historic flow must live accompanied past times an adult. Registration is required, sign upwardly online at https://letsgooutside.org/beginningarchery.
September nine – The Mysterious World of O’Neill Park
9 – 10:30 a.m.
Have yous e'er wondered, "Where are all the wild animals inwards the park?" Visit a Show together with Share exhibit adjacent to the Nature Center at O'Neill Regional Park together with regain mysterious clues animals acquire out behind. Make a wild animate beingness rail mold. Enjoy nature, crafts together with games. Show together with Share exhibit activities from 9:00 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. Scavenger Hunt 9:00 a.m. to 10:30 a.m.
Location: O’Neill Regional Park. 30892 Trabuco Canyon Road, Trabuco Canyon, CA 92678
Cost: Free
Parking: Free
Contact: (949) 923-2260
Special Instructions: Meet at the Nature Center Patio. For to a greater extent than data visit: www.ocparks.com/mysteriousworld.
September 10 – Discover Hidden Canyons of OC: Baker Canyon Meadow
8:30 – xi a.m.
Discover the hidden canyons together with trails institute on the Irvine Ranch Natural Landmarks. These seldom hiked trails offering fantastic vista views, secluded oasis of oaks or rising rocky outcrops. Come take hold a stroll along the trails to regain the hidden gems of Orange County. We volition hear to tales most how the geology was formed underfoot to tales of the plants together with animals that telephone telephone these protected habitats home.
Location: Black Star Canyon Wilderness Park, Baker Staging Area
Cost: Free
Parking: Free
Special Instructions: Ages xiii together with up. Please have on comfortable wearing clothing together with shoes for our hike equally good equally convey proper Sun protection together with water. Registration is required, sign upwardly online at www.letsgooutside.org/discoverhiddencanyons.
September 10, 17, 24 – Tai Chi inwards the Canyon
9 – xi a.m.
Tai Chi is an ancient Chinese exercise renowned for the benefits of its slow, non-stressful physical exercises equally good equally its meditative qualities. Baker Canyon offers a natural setting equally a perfect place for deep breathing of the fresh air, energizing our internal liberate energy (Qi) together with using it to root ourselves to the land. The degree volition perform gentle warm upwardly exercises direct associated with many of the moves together with nosotros volition so larn together with do the Yang style.
Location: Black Star Canyon Wilderness Park, Baker Staging Area
Cost: Free
Parking: Free
Special Instructions: The initiative off hr volition live dedicated to get-go students learning the initiative off laid together with the 2nd hr focuses on the advanced students to report the 2nd together with tertiary sets. All participants are welcome to either participate or regain both sessions equally the gate volition live closed for the 2 hr duration. Registration is required, sign upwardly online at www.letsgooutside.org/taichi.
September xi – California Native Plants together with Uses
8:30 – xi a.m.
Learn most the many fascinating uses of California native plants during the pre-mission flow on this 2-mile hike (490-ft. elevation gain) over steep together with uneven terrain. This hike volition focus on plants used historically for tools, nutrient together with edifice materials.
Location: Laguna Coast Wilderness Park. 18751 Laguna Canyon Road, Laguna Beach, CA 92651. James Dilley Preserve (I-5 or 405 S to 133 S to stoplight at 73 toll road, brand U-turn, expire 1 block. Dilley is on the right).
Cost: Free
Parking: $3 per vehicle
Contact: (949) 923-2235
Special Instructions: Ages 12 together with up. Online reservations required at www.eventbrite.com/canativeplants. For questions, telephone telephone (949) 497-8324 Mon to Fri or (949) 923-2200 Sabbatum together with Sunday
September 11, xviii – Evening Hike inwards the Canyons
6:30 – 8:30 p.m.
Come bring together us for some after-work exercise on the Mesa Loop. The hike volition shroud unopen to 3 miles circular trip at a moderate measuring together with volition offering us beautiful panoramic views of the surrounding canyons. Also, maintain your eyes opened upwardly for whatever animals starting their nightly routines.
Location: Black Star Canyon Wilderness Park, Canyons Staging Area
Cost: Free
Parking: Free
Special Instructions: Please convey H2O together with have on sturdy shoes. H5N1 flashlight with a cerise tinted lite is non required but mightiness live dainty to take hold equally it volition live dark out when nosotros complete our hike. Registration is required, sign upwardly online at www.letsgooutside.org/evninghike.
September 12 – Restoration Stewardship Day
8 – xi a.m.
Join OC Parks together with Laguna Canyon Foundation for a morning time of habitat restoration operate inwards the Pecten Reef expanse of Aliso together with Wood Canyons Wilderness Park. Help us create a healthier habitat for the native plants together with wild fauna that telephone telephone the common their home. Depending on the fourth dimension of year, volunteers volition assist with diverse restoration activities including removal of non-native plants, seed collection, and/or planting of native plants.
Location: Aliso together with Wood Canyons Wilderness Park. 28373 Alicia Parkway, Laguna Niguel, CA 92677
Cost: Free
Parking: Free
Contact: (949) 497-8324
Special Instructions: Ages 17 together with upwardly (must take hold waiver signed past times parent). Lunch together with refreshments served. Trail to live determined closer to outcome together with notification volition live sent to those signed up. We volition live coming together at the Aliso Viejo Community Park on the reverse halt of the middle school. Registration is required, sign upwardly online at www.eventbrite.com/trailstewardship.
September 12, 26 – Discovery Hike
8:30 – xi a.m.
Explore beautiful Wood Canyon together with regain its native flora together with fauna with Laguna Canyon Foundation volunteer naturalists on this steep, uneven together with rocky, 5-mile hike (depending on trail choice, upwardly to a 500 ft. elevation gain). We volition halt from fourth dimension to time, spending moments to discover.
Location: Aliso together with Wood Canyons Wilderness Park. 28373 Alicia Parkway, Laguna Niguel, CA 92677. Begin at Wood Canyon Trail off Canyon Vistas inwards Aliso Viejo. From Pacific Park/Canyon Vistas intersection, expire northwest on Canyon Vistas. Park legally (note street signs) on or close Canyon Vistas, preferably betwixt Coastal Oak together with Madia (22100 share of Canyon Vistas).
Cost: Free
Parking: Free
Contact: (949) 923-2200
Special Instructions: Registration is required, sign upwardly online at www.eventbrite.com/discoveryhike. This hike isn't for beginners.
Please have on closed toe hiking shoes, Sun protection together with convey enough of water.
September 12 – Yoga Hike
9 – 10:30 a.m.
Stretch your hear together with trunk on this 2.4-mile hike with a yoga twist over steep together with uneven terrain (100-ft. elevation gain) led past times Laguna Canyon Foundation volunteers.
Location: Aliso together with Wood Canyons Wilderness Park. 28373 Alicia Parkway, Laguna Niguel, CA 92677. Begin at Wood Canyon Trail off Canyon Vistas inwards Aliso Viejo. From Pacific Park/Canyon Vistas intersection, expire northwest on Canyon Vistas. Park legally (note street signs) on or close Canyon Vistas, preferably betwixt Coastal Oak together with Madia (22100 share of Canyon Vistas). Wood Canyon Trail starts equally a paved sidewalk betwixt a neighborhood common together with tree-lined easement, so becomes dirt trail into the canyon. Hike leaders together with participants volition run into at the halt of the paved sidewalk, entering the canyon.
Cost: Free
Parking: Free
Contact: (949) 923-220
Special Instructions: For ages 12 together with up. Please convey a towel together with water, yoga mat optional. For questions, telephone telephone (949) 497-8324 Mon to Fri or (949) 923-2200 Sabbatum together with Sunday. Registration is required, sign upwardly online at www.eventbrite.com/yogahike.
September xiii – Fitness Hike at Willow
8:30 – 10:30 a.m.
Raise your view charge per unit of measurement together with your spirits on this strenuous, fast-paced, 5.5 mile hike over steep together with uneven terrain (571-ft elevation gain) with Laguna Canyon Foundation volunteers.
Location: Laguna Coast Wilderness Park. 18751 Laguna Canyon Road, Laguna Beach, CA 92651. Willow Canyon Staging Area (west side of Laguna Canyon Rd/SR-133, merely S of El Toro Road). Park together with walk upwardly the gravel trail 100 yards to acquire to the little native flora nursery, merely before the trailers.
Cost: Free
Parking: $3 per vehicle
Contact: (949) 497-8324
Special Instructions: Ages xv together with up. Registration is required, sign upwardly online at www.eventbrite.com/fitnesshike. Please have on hiking shoes together with convey enough of water. Remember: This hike is stenuous together with fast-paced. Please live certain yous tin lavatory maintain a 19-minute mile. Please brand it xv minutes early
September xiii – Give Back together with Enjoy the Beauty: Dripping Springs
9 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Connect with nature together with give dorsum to the dry reason equally nosotros assist native plants together with wild fauna flourish inwards an extremely sensitive expanse of Limestone Canyon Preserve. You volition ride through the canyon inwards a safari-type vehicle to the Dripping Springs Trail where yous may H2O or add together native plants. In improver nosotros volition give existing native plants room to thrive equally nosotros weed out invasive plants. As a bonus nosotros volition hike about 2 miles round-trip to Dripping Springs; a fern-covered stone human face upwardly dripping with life-giving H2O creating an essential watering hole for wild fauna inwards the canyon. Your operate along this trail volition non alone produce goodness the plants together with animals, but yous volition live supporting its continued beautification together with protection.
Location: Limestone Canyon Nature Preserve, Augustine Staging Area
Cost: Free
Parking: Free
Special Instructions: It is essential that yous have on long pants, closed toe shoes together with long sleeves for this activity, equally at that spot are inherent dangers on the trails such equally poisonous substance oak, a variety of bugs together with plants that could live abrasive. We take hold some gloves, but yous may live to a greater extent than comfortable with your own. Please come upwardly prepared. No special skills are needed. Tools volition live provided. Registration is required, sign upwardly online at www.letsgooutside.org/giveback.
September xiii – Wild North America Preschool Program
10:15 – 11:15 a.m.
Come regain out what kinds of animals nosotros regain on our ain continent! Class includes hands-on learning, fun crafts, together with coming together zoo animals upwardly close!
Location: OC Zoo. 1 Irvine Park Rd, Orange, CA 92869
Cost: $5 per tike (includes 1 adult)
Parking: $3 per vehicle
Contact: (714) 973-6846
Special Instructions: Ages 3 to iv years sometime only. Parent must accompany tike for duration of program. Registration is required! Call (714) 973-6846 to register.
September xiii – Shhh…Hike, Look together with Listen
6 – 8 p.m.
Come halt your hateful solar daytime with a tranquility walk through the calming canyons on the Irvine Ranch Natural Landmarks. We volition lookout for soaring red-tailed hawks, hear to birds quietly sing, together with inhale the fragrance of fresh sage. Shed away the day’s repetitions together with bring together us equally nosotros take hold a “slow walk” into Baker Canyon, mindful of all that is happening around us.
Location: Black Star Canyon Wilderness Park, Baker Staging Area
Cost: Free
Parking: Free
Special Instructions: Registration is required, sign upwardly online at www.letsgooutside.org/hikelooklisten.
September xiv – Weekday Slow-Paced Mountain Bike Ride – Limestone Canyon
8 – 11:30 a.m.
Enjoy the relaxation of riding inwards the wilderness on empty trails together with bring together us on this docent led mount wheel ride through Limestone Canyon. We volition see Dripping Springs which is a fern covered, year-round source of H2O for the local wildlife. The ride volition also halt at the westward viewing deck for the Sinks together with volition expire on on Limestone Canyon Road for a to a greater extent than panoramic persuasion of the Sinks.
Location: Limestone Canyon Nature Preserve, Augustine Staging Area
Cost: Free
Parking: Free
Special Instructions: This is a slow-paced ride designed for the beginner that has sense riding burn downwards roads such equally Limestone Canyon or Telegraph Canyon, but wants to prepare their climbing together with riding abilities. The ride tin lavatory also live enjoyed past times to a greater extent than advanced riders looking for a relaxed ride inwards a beautiful setting. Registration is required, sign upwardly online at www.letsgooutside.org/weekday.
September 14 – Jaws: 2018 OC Parks Sunset Cinema
6 – 10 p.m.
The County of Orange together with OC Parks are pleased to acquaint the annual Sunset Cinema cinema series, featuring xiv gratuitous movies at OC parks across the county. The 2018 OC Parks Sunset Cinema serial concludes with Jaws at Buff Park at Salt Creek Beach.
Cost: Free
Parking: Free
Contact: (949) 923-2280
Special Instructions: Pack a picnic, blankets, together with beach chairs together with caput to OC Parks Sunset Cinema together with taste recent pop flicks together with innovate the immature ones inwards your life to love classics. All movies are gratuitous to attend, with gratuitous parking get-go at 6 p.m. together with exhibit times starting around 8 p.m. later the Sun has set. Food trucks volition live serving on-site. For the entire Sunset Cinema calendar visit: http://www.ocparks.com/sunsetcinema
September xv – Coastal Cleanup Day
9 a.m. – 12 p.m.
Lend a helping manus together with bring together volunteers around the basis for Coastal Cleanup Day. Make an impact on our coastlines equally nosotros operate together to take away trash together with recyclables from the marsh, waterway, together with beaches.
Location: Upper Newport Bay Nature Preserve. 2301 University Drive, Newport Beach, CA 92660. Meet at the Peter together with Mary Muth Interpretive Center.
Cost: Free
Parking: Free
Contact: (949) 923-2290
Special Instructions: Get create to acquire dirty! Please have on sometime wearing clothing together with closed toed shoes or pelting boots as most locations are muddy. Help trim down plastic utilisation by bringing gloves together with a bucket if yous take hold them. You tin lavatory also convey a reusable H2O bottle. Registration is required, sign upwardly online at www.coastkeeper.com/uppernewportbay.
September xv – Wolves, Coyotes together with Wildlife
8 – 8:45 p.m.
Wolf Haven International, a nonprofit sanctuary for captive-born wolves, presents Wolves, Coyotes together with Wildlife, a solid unit of measurement friendly educational programme most wolf behavior, biological scientific discipline together with social structure. This teaching programme takes a unopen hold back at the differences together with similarities betwixt wolf together with coyote biology, behavior, social structure, historical together with electrical current ranges, together with ecosystem roles. As wild wolves are at 1 time naturally recolonizing dorsum into California, the programme focuses on hiking together with backpacking inwards wolf country. We’ll also hold back at how our domesticated dogs compare together with contrast with these wild canids. The mission of the programme is to shroud biodiversity together with facilitate peaceful coexistence of all species.
Location: O’Neill Regional Park. 30892 Trabuco Canyon Road, Trabuco Canyon, CA 92678
Cost: Free
Parking: Free
Contact: (949) 923-2260
Special Instructions: For to a greater extent than data visit: www.ocparks.com/wolvedcoyotesandwildlife.
September sixteen – 3rd Lord's Day Restoration Day
7:30 – 10:30 a.m.
Help common rangers inwards Peters Canyon Regional Park take away invasive together with non-native plants to maintain native habitat healthy, inwards plow helping the wild fauna thrive.
Location: Peters Canyon Regional Park. 8548 E. Canyon View Ave., Orange, CA 92869
Cost: Free
Parking: Free
Contact: (949) 923-2235
Special Instructions: Please convey water, sunscreen, hat, snacks, gloves together with closed toe shoes. Ages 12 together with up. Registration is required, sign upwardly online at www.letsgooutside.org/3rdsunday.
September nineteen – Journey to Black Star’s Red Rocks- Photography Hike
7:30 – 10:30 a.m.
Capture the beauty of Black Star’s Red Rocks inwards the early on morning time light. Many of us take hold enjoyed looking at the color together with geometry of this stone formation from Black Star road. However, due to the distance, the texture together with especial of the stone surfaces is missing. In addition, nosotros take hold missed the full painting that includes the surrounding wilderness with its trees, creek together with animals.
Location: Black Star Canyon Wilderness Park, Black Star Staging Area
Cost: Free
Parking: Free
Special Instructions: Bring your photographic television camera equipment or merely yourself together with taste this iconic stone formation. We volition taste several viewing/photo stops at picturesque locations. Registration is required, sign upwardly online at www.letsgooutside.org/photo.
September xx – Fitness Hike at Canyon View
8:30 – xi a.m.
Raise your view charge per unit of measurement together with your spirits on this strenuous, fast-paced, 6-mile hike over steep together with uneven terrain (400-ft elevation gain) with Laguna Canyon Foundation volunteers.
Location: Aliso together with Wood Canyons Wilderness Park. 28373 Alicia Parkway, Laguna Niguel, CA 92677. Begin at Wood Canyon Trail off Canyon Vistas inwards Aliso Viejo. From Pacific Park/Canyon Vistas intersection, expire northwest on Canyon Vistas. Park legally (note street signs) on or close Canyon Vistas, preferably betwixt Coastal Oak together with Madia (22100 share of Canyon Vistas).
Cost: Free
Parking: Free
Contact: (949) 923-2200
Special Instructions: Ages xv together with up. Registration is required, sign upwardly online at www.eventbrite.com/fitnesshike. This is a strenuous, fast-paced hike. Please live certain yous tin lavatory maintain a 19-minute mile pace.
September xx – Advanced Cardio Hike: Limestone Ridge, Dripping Springs together with Sandtrap
5:30 – 8 p.m.
Join us for a strenuous, extremely challenging, fast-paced, afternoon cardio hike starting inwards Limestone Canyon. Along the means we’ll live rewarded with panoramic views of Orange County together with possible wild fauna sightings.
Location: Limestone Canyon Nature Preserve, Augustine Staging Area
Cost: Free
Parking: Free
Special Instructions: Please convey a minimum of seventy oz. H2O together with trail snacks. Come prepared with a pack, sturdy closed toed hiking shoes or boots, sunscreen, initiative off aid, together with all other supplies to maintain yous prophylactic together with good for yous on the trail for the extreme fast-paced hike inwards a wilderness area. Each player must carry his or her ain pack together with water. Under-prepared participants may live denied access to this program. Registration is required, sign upwardly online at www.letsgooutside.org/cardiohike.
September 21 – Better Birding Basics: Fall Bird Migration
8 – xi a.m.
In September, some of the birds that breed inwards the due north render to their wintertime feeding grounds inwards the warmer south. Many of them halt along the means at sites similar Agua Chinon. Join other birders equally nosotros search for migrating equally good equally resident birds past times both ear together with optic inwards this beautiful arroyo canyon.
Location: Limestone Canyon Nature Preserve, Portola-Agua Chinon Staging Area
Cost: Free
Parking: Free
Special Instructions: Registration is required, sign upwardly online at www.letsgooutside.org/birding.
September 21 – The Lure together with Lull of Limestone Canyon together with The Sinks Equestrian Ride or Dripping Springs
10 a.m. – 2 p.m.
Take a leisurely equestrian ride through beautiful Limestone Canyon, habitation of oak woodlands, grasslands, together with coastal sage scrub. View evidence of the sometime ranch days when cattle 1 time roamed the area, together with consider some of the wild flowers that are native to our area. You volition also consider some of the designated natural landmarks of the area.
Location: Limestone Canyon Nature Preserve.
Cost: Free
Parking: Free
Special Instructions: Registration is required, sign upwardly online at www.letsgooutside.org/lureandlull.
September 21 - Animal Art I – Preschool Program
10:15 – 11:15 a.m.
Join us for an hr of inventiveness together with fun with an animate beingness theme! Class includes hands-on learning, fun crafts together with coming together zoo animals upwardly close!
Location: OC Zoo. 1 Irvine Park Rd, Orange, CA 92869
Cost: $5 per tike (includes 1 adult)
Parking: $3 per vehicle
Contact: (714) 973-6846
Special Instructions: Ages 3 to iv years sometime only. Parent must accompany tike for duration of program. Registration is required! Call (714) 973-6846 to register.
September 27 – Fitness Hike at Dilley
8:30 – xi a.m.
This is a stenuous, fast-paced hike. Please live certain yous tin lavatory maintain a nineteen infinitesimal mile pace. Please brand it xv minutes early. Raise your view charge per unit of measurement together with your spirits on this strenuous, fast-paced 5.5-mile hike over steep together with uneven terrain (900 ft. elevation gain) with Laguna Canyon Foundation volunteers.
Location: Laguna Coast Wilderness Park. 18751 Laguna Canyon Road, Laguna Beach, CA 92651. James Dilley Preserve (I-5 or 405 S to 133 S to stoplight at 73 toll road; together with brand a U-turn, expire 1 block. Dilley is on the right.
Cost: Free
Parking: Free
Contact: (949) 923-2235
Special Instructions: Ages xv together with up. Registration is required, sign upwardly online at www.eventbrite.com/fitnesshike. Please have on hiking shoes together with convey enough of water.
September 27 – Feathery Friends Preschool Program
10:15 – 11:15 a.m.
Come larn most birds that tin lavatory wing together with fifty-fifty those that can’t fly! Class includes hands-on learning, fun crafts, together with coming together zoo animals upwardly close!
Location: OC Zoo. 1 Irvine Park Rd, Orange, CA 92869
Cost: $5 per tike (includes 1 adult)
Parking: $3 per vehicle
Contact: (714) 973-6846
Special Instructions: Ages 3 to iv years sometime only. Parent must accompany tike for duration of program. Registration is required! Call (714) 973-6846 to register.
September 28 –Hike to East Sinks Viewing Deck: Limestone Canyon
7 – xi a.m.
Come along with us on this fast-paced morning time hike through beautiful Limestone Canyon Nature Preserve to the East Sinks Viewing Deck. You’ll live rewarded with a spectacular persuasion of The Sinks equally good equally sweeping views of Orange County together with the Santa Ana Mountains. This hike involves steep climbs together with descents on both double together with single-track trails.
Location: Limestone Canyon Nature Preserve, Augustine Staging Area
Cost: Free
Parking: Free
Special Instructions: Ages xviii together with up. Each player must carry their ain hateful solar daytime pack together with H2O together with live comfortable hiking an average moving measuring of 3.5-4 miles per hour. Please brand certain yous convey a minimum of seventy oz. (2 quarts) of H2O together with trail snacks. Under-prepared participants may live denied access to this program. Please come upwardly prepared. Registration is required, sign upwardly online at www.letsgooutside.org/eastsinks.
September 29 – The Hummingbird Nest Story
8 – 8:45 p.m.
Come bring together wild fauna lensman Kim Michaels, Certified Interpretive Guide, together with taste a rare hold back into the lives of hummingbirds. Michaels has captured the entire six-week nesting process, including detailed images of a chick’s birth, growth, initiative off flight, together with fledge. Enjoy a revealing hold back at woman individual hummingbirds, nature’s hard-working unmarried moms. Learn most the hummingbird circle of life. See how a woman parent hummingbird builds her nest together with raises her chicks.
Location: O’Neill Regional Park. 30892 Trabuco Canyon Road, Trabuco Canyon, CA 92678
Cost: Free
Parking: Free
Contact: (949) 923-2260
September thirty – Bird Walk
8 – xi a.m.
Spot local native together with seasonal resident birds with Laguna Canyon Foundation volunteer naturalists on this irksome together with piece of cake 2-mile walk through a landscaped suburban parkland setting at Mason Regional Park. No sense necessary!
Location: William R. Mason Regional Park. 18712 University Drive, Irvine, CA 92612. Turn correct at the halt sign later the common entrance together with common inwards Parking Lot A. We volition run into at the Butterfly Habitat at nine a.m.
Cost: Free
Parking: $5 per vehicle.
Contact: (949) 923-2220
Special Instructions: Wear hiking or walking shoes; convey binoculars! Ages 12 together with upwardly (minors must live accompanied past times adult). Registration is required, sign upwardly online at www.eventbrite.com/birdwalk.
September thirty – Crafty Kids Sundays
10 a.m. – 3 p.m.
Come bring together us for a fun themed arts and crafts projection anytime betwixt 10 a.m. together with 3 p.m.! Crafty Kids Lord's Day features FREE arts and crafts activities inwards the Muth Interpretive Center’s Discovery Classroom.
Location: Upper Newport Bay Nature Preserve. 2301 University Drive, Newport Beach, CA 92660
Cost: Free
Parking: Free
Contact: (949) 923-2290
Special Instructions: All ages are welcome, recommended for ages 2 to 10 years old. No registration is required. Children must live accompanied past times an adult.
September thirty – Then together with Now Public Program
1 – 3 p.m.
Come out to Clark Regional Park on the terminal Lord's Day of every calendar month to larn most the animals that ruled the dry reason 10,000 years agone together with the animals living inwards Orange County today. Visit the Show together with Share activity tabular array for hands-on exhibits together with regain the similarities together with differences betwixt past times together with acquaint animals.
Location: Clark Regional Park. 8800 Rosecrans Ave. Buena Park, CA 90621. Meet at interpretive center.
Cost: Free
Parking: $5 per vehicle
Contact: (714) 973-3170