Here are some highlights from the OC Parks September Calendar of events, if you lot are looking for hiking ideas or other outdoor events this month, brand certain to banking enterprise check out some of these cracking events!
OC Parks September 2016 calendar of events
September 1 – Fitness Hike at Canyon View
8 – 10 a.m.
Raise your pump charge per unit of measurement too your spirits on this strenuous, moderately paced, 6-mile hike over steep too uneven terrain (400-ft elevation gain) with Laguna Canyon Foundation volunteers.
Location: Aliso & Wood Canyons Wilderness Park. 28373 Alicia Parkway
Laguna Niguel, CA 92677
Website: www.ocparks.com/aliso
Cost: Free
Parking: Free
Contact: (949) 497-8324
Special Instructions: For ages fifteen too up. Registration is required, sign-up online: www.eventbrite.com/fitnesshike. Aliso & Wood Canyons Wilderness Park, Canyon View Staging Area (from southbound Aliso Creek Road, plow correct on Glenwood [turns into Pacific Park] too correct on Canyon Vistas. Meet at the entrance to Canyon View Park).
September 1 – 2016 Summer Concert Series – JR JR with Big Monsta
6 – 8 p.m.
The County of Orange too OC Parks welcome dorsum the annual outdoor summertime concert series. Food trucks volition live serving on-site at each location. Friends too families are invited to come upwards out, pick out a blanket too a beach chair too savor JR JR with Big Monsta nether the stars at OC Parks this summertime season.
Location: Salt Creek Beach. 33333 S. Pacific Coast Hwy. Dana Point, CA 92629
Website: www.ocparks.com/saltcreek
Cost: Free
Parking: Free
Contact: (949) 923-2280
Special Instructions: All ages welcome. Guests may pick out their ain food, too alcohol consumption past times those 21 too over is permitted for the concerts.
September 2, 9, 16, 23, xxx – Wild Tales
10:30 – 11:15 a.m.
Join Newport Bay Conservancy Volunteers for a fun filled bring upwards too kid sense that may include arts too crafts, storytime, hands-on activities too outdoor nature walks.
September 3 – Wilderness Access Day: Black Star Canyon
8 a.m. – ii p.m.
Hikers, mount bikers too equestrians tin savor self-guided access to designated trails inwards Black Star Canyon Wilderness Park.
Location: Black Star Canyon Wilderness Park
Website: www.ocparks.com/irvineranch
Cost: Free
Parking: Free
Special Instructions: Ages 12 too up. Registration is required, sign-up online: www.letsgooutside.org/wildernessaccessday Directions volition live provided afterward registration.
September 3 – First Sabbatum of the Month Morning Hike To The Redwood Grove
8:30 – 10 a.m.
Join OC Parks' trained staff on the outset Sabbatum of the calendar month for an piece of cake 1.1-mile early on morn interpretive hike to the park's Coastal Redwood grove. You volition role your five senses to engage with nature every bit you lot stroll to the Redwoods. You volition also cause got an chance to larn nigh our native plants along the trail. The hike begins at 8:30 a.m. from the park's Nature Center.
Location: Carbon Canyon Regional Park. 4442 Carbon Canyon Road
Brea, CA 92823
Website: www.ocparks.com/carboncanyon
Cost: Free
Parking: $5 per vehicle
Contact: (714) 973-3160
Special Instructions: Meet at Nature Center located at eastward destination of park. To register, telephone telephone (714) 973-3160 or e-mail carboncanyon@ocparks.com. Participants should cry upwards water, sunscreen, lid too hiking shoes. Rain volition cancel hike.
September 3, 10, 17, 24 – Walk with a Naturalist
9 – 10:30 a.m.
Join O’Neill Regional Park naturalists too larn nigh the animals too nature of Trabuco Canyon. This volition live a lite to moderate walk on mostly paved roads.
Location: O’Neill Regional Park. 30892 Trabuco Canyon Road
Trabuco Canyon, CA 92678
Website: www.ocparks.com/oneill
Cost: Free
Parking: $5 per vehicle
Contact: (949) 923-2260
Special Instructions: All ages welcome. Meet at the Nature Center simply within the primary entrance of O’Neill Regional Park. Event is conditional on weather.
September 3 – Monthly Habitat Restoration
9 –11:30 a.m.
Join OC Parks staff, the Institute for Conservation, Research too Education (ICRE) too other volunteers the outset Sabbatum of every calendar month to help elevate Talbert Regional Park’s habitat for local wildlife. Activities may include: non-native constitute removal, planting natives, watering too trash removal.
Location: Talbert Nature Preserve. 1298 Victoria Avenue
Costa Mesa, CA 92627
Website: www.ocparks.com/talbert
Cost: Free
Parking: Parking for the outcome volition live at Fairview Park inwards the metropolis of Costa Mesa, a brusk 10-minute walk to Talbert.
Contact: (949) 923-2293
Special Instructions: No sense is necessary. Water too tools are provided. Minors aged sixteen too younger must cause got legal guardian acquaint at all times. Rain or rut advisories cancels event. Please have on long pants, unopen toed shoes too a hat. Please pick out sunscreen, run gloves, reusable H2O bottle too snack.
September 3 -- Explore the Bay Family Hike
10:30 – 11:30 a.m.
An piece of cake hike for families of all ages to larn to a greater extent than nigh Upper Newport Bay too savor its trails. Hike volition live on paved too dirt trails. Bring Sun protection too water. Meet on the patio of the Muth Interpretive Center. Event is free, registration is non required.
Location: Upper Newport Bay Nature Preserve. 2301 University Drive
Newport Beach, CA 92660
Website: www.ocparks.com/newport
Cost: Free
Parking: Free
Contact: (949) 923-2290
September 3 – Open House
11 a.m. – 12 p.m.
The Ramon Peralta Adobe volition live opened upwards to Earth from 11am to 12pm. Join docents every bit they translate the history of this early on construction too canyon history.
Location: Ramon Peralta Adobe. 6398 E. Santa Ana Canyon Road
Anaheim, CA 92807
Website: www.ocparks.com/ramon
Cost: Free
Parking: You may common inwards the shopping center's parking lot.
Contact: (714) 973-3190
Special Instructions: The Peralta Adobe is surrounded on 3 sides past times the Tarbell offices at the corner of Fairmont Blvd. too Santa Ana Canyon Road.
September 3 – Family Hike
3 – five p.m.
Come too savor an easy, 2.5-mile trouble solid unit of measurement hike over moderate but uneven terrain (45-ft. elevation gain). Starting at the James Dilley Preserve nosotros volition hike i of the most various areas of the common to Barbara’s Lake too back. Hike is led past times Laguna Canyon Foundation naturalist volunteers.
Location: Laguna Coast Wilderness Park. 18751 Laguna Canyon Road, Laguna Beach, CA 92651
Website: www.ocparks.com/lagunacoast
Cost: Free
Parking: $3 per vehicle
Contact: (949) 923-2235
Special Instructions: Registration is required, sign-up online: www.eventbrite.com/familyhike. Laguna Coast Wilderness Park, James Dilley Preserve (I-5 or 405 S to 133 S to stoplight at 73 toll road; brand a U-turn, become 1 block. Dilley is on the right).
September 4, 11, 18, 25 – Guided Nature Hike
8 – 9:15 a.m.
Join the Park Ranger for a 1-mile nature hike inwards the beautiful Bell Canyon surface area of Caspers Wilderness Park.
Location: Caspers Wilderness Park. 33401 Ortega Highway, San Juan Capistrano, CA 92675
Website: www.ocparks.com/caspers
Cost: Free
Parking: $5 per vehicle (day role free)
Contact: (949) 923-2210
Specil Instructions: Hike lasts roughly i hr too is suitable for all ages. Meet at the Old Corral Day Use Area. Contact common component division for hike updates.
September 8 – Fitness Hike at Dilley
8:30 – xi a.m.
Raise your pump charge per unit of measurement too your spirits on this strenuous, fast-paced, 5.5-mile hike over steep too uneven terrain (900-ft. elevation gain) with Laguna Canyon Foundation volunteers.
Location: Laguna Coast Wilderness Park. 18751 Laguna Canyon Road, Laguna Beach, CA 92651
Website: www.ocparks.com/lagunacoast
Cost: Free
Parking: $3 per vehicle
Contact: (949) 497-8324
Special Instructions: Ages fifteen too up. Registration is required, sign-up online: www.eventbrite.com/fitnesshike. Laguna Coast Wilderness Park, James Dilley Preserve (I-5 or 405 S to 133 S to stoplight at 73 toll road; too brand a U-turn, become 1 block. Dilley is on the right.)
September 8 – Black Star Canyon Habitat Enhancement
9 – 11:30 a.m.
Plant little too easy-to-handle coastal prickly pear cactus pads, which supply of import shelter too nutrient for local wildlife. All tools too preparation volition live provided.
Location: Black Star Canyon Wilderness Park
Website: www.ocparks.com/irvineranch
Cost: Free
Parking: Free
Special Instructions: Ages fifteen too up. Registration required, sign-up online: www.letsgooutside.org/habitatenhancement. Driving directions volition live provided afterward registration.
September 10 – Intro Cardio Fitness: Extended Weir Canyon Rifle Range Loop
7 – 8:30 a.m.
Enjoy views of Weir Canyon Nature Preserve during a slower intro-to-cardio fitness hike traveling five miles with an elevation gain of 900 feet.
Location: Weir Canyon Nature Preserve
Website: www.ocparks.com/irvineranch
Cost: Free
Parking: Free
Special Instructions: Ages sixteen too up. Registration is required, sign-up online: www.letsgooutside.org/cardiofitness. Driving directions volition live provided afterward registration.
September 10 – Animal Tracking inwards Fremont Canyon
8 – xi a.m.
Search for prove that animals acquire out behind inwards nature spell gaining basic tracking techniques inwards Fremont Canyon Nature Preserve. This computer program is focused for older children too adults.
Location: Fremont Canyon Nature Preserve
Website: www.ocparks.com/irvineranch
Cost: Free
Parking: Free
Special Instructions: Ages 8 too up. Registration is required, sign-up online: www.letsgooutside.org/animaltracking. Driving directions volition live provided afterward registration.
September 10 – Nursery Plant Propagation too Care Day
8 a.m. – 12 p.m.
Join us at our native constitute plant nursery every bit nosotros help 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, constitute at restoration sites, sterilize constitute containers, and/or help hold the facilities for the plants. Gain hands-on sense with habitat restoration spell working with other zany too interesting constitute lovers!
Location: Laguna Coast Wilderness Park. 18751 Laguna Canyon Road, Laguna Beach, CA 92651
Website: www.ocparks.com/lagunacoast
Cost: Free
Parking: Free passes volition live provided at the nursery
Contact: (949) 923-2235
Special Instructions: Registration is required, sign-up online: www.eventbrite.com/plantpropagation. Wear closed-toed shoes, pick out layered wearable too Sun protection (hat, sunscreen) too pick out water. Meet at Laguna Coast Wilderness Park, Willow Canyon Staging Area (west side of Laguna Canyon Rd/SR-133, simply S of El Toro Road). Park too walk upwards the gravel trail 100 yards to acquire to the little native constitute nursery, simply earlier the trailers.
September 10 – Family Fossil Day
9:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Come explore Clark Park’s rich fossil history too sense hands-on fossil fun for all ages! We volition also hike to the marine fossil site (for those vi years too older).
Location: Clark Regional Park. 8800 Rosecrans Ave. Buena Park, CA 90621
Website: www.ocparks.com/clark
Cost: Free
Parking: $5 per vehicle
Contact: (714) 973-3170
September 11 – The Mysterious World of O’Neill Regional Park
9 – 10:30 a.m.
Have you lot e'er wondered “Where are all the wild animals inwards the park?” Visit a Show too Share Exhibit located side past times side to the O’Neill Park Nature Center too uncovering mysterious clues animals acquire out behind. Enjoy nature crafts too games, similar making a wild animate beingness rail mold!
Location: O’Neill Regional Park. 30892 Trabuco Canyon Road
Trabuco Canyon, CA 92678
Website: www.ocparks.com/oneill
Cost: Free
Parking: $5 per vehicle
Contact: (949) 923-2260
September thirteen – Adopt a Grassland – West Loma Stewardship
8 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Remove invasive weeds too constitute native seedlings inwards Limestone Canyon Nature Preserve.
Location: Limestone Canyon Nature Preserve
Website: www.ocparks.com/irvineranch
Cost: Free
Parking: Free
Special Instructions: Ages 12 too up. Registration is required, sign-up online: www.letsgooutside.org/adoptagrassland.
September thirteen – California Native Plants too Uses
8:30 – xi a.m.
Learn nigh the many fascinating uses of California native plants during the pre-mission period, on this 2-mile hike (490-ft. elevation gain) over steep too uneven terrain. This hike volition focus on plants used historically for tools, nutrient too edifice materials.
Location: Laguna Coast Wilderness Park. 18751 Laguna Canyon Road
Laguna Beach, CA 92651
Website: www.ocparks.com/lagunacoast
Cost: Free
Parking: $3 per vehicle
Contact: (949) 497-8324
Special Instructions: Ages 12 too up. Registration is required, sign-up online: www.eventbrite.com/nativeplants. Laguna Coast Wilderness Park, James Dilley Preserve (I-5 or 405 S to 133 S to stoplight at 73 toll road; brand a U-turn, become 1 block. Dilley is on the right.)
September xiv – Yoga Hike
9 – 10:30 a.m.
Stretch your take heed too trunk on this 2.4-mile hike with a yoga twist over steep too uneven terrain (100-ft. elevation gain) led past times Laguna Canyon Foundation volunteers.
Location: Aliso & Wood Canyons Wilderness Park. 28373 Alicia Parkway
Laguna Niguel, CA 92677
Website: www.ocparks.com/aliso
Cost: Free
Parking: Free
Contact: (949) 497-8324
Special Instructions: For ages 12 too up. Registration is required, sign-up online: www.eventbrite.com/yogahike. Aliso & Wood Canyons Wilderness Park, Canyon View Staging Area (from southbound Aliso Creek Road, plow correct on Glenwood [turns into Pacific Park] too correct on Canyon Vistas. Meet at the entrance to Canyon View Park).
September fifteen – Fitness Hike at Little Sycamore
8:30 – 10:30 a.m.
Raise your pump charge per unit of measurement too your spirits on this difficult, strenuous too fast-paced, 4.8-mile hike (400-ft. elevation gain) over real steep, uneven terrain with Laguna Canyon Foundation volunteers.
Location: Laguna Coast Wilderness Park. 18751 Laguna Canyon Road
Laguna Beach, CA 92651
Website: www.ocparks.com/lagunacoast
Cost: Free
Parking: $3 per vehicle
Contact: (949) 497-8324
Special Instructions: Ages fifteen too up. Registration is required, sign-up online: www.eventbrite.com/fitnesshike. Laguna Coast Wilderness Park, Little Sycamore Canyon Staging Area/Nix Nature Center (west side of Laguna Canyon Road/SR-133, roughly 3.5 miles S of I-5/405).
September fifteen – Equestrian Ride: Discover the Natural Wonders of Weir Canyon
10 a.m. – 1 p.m.
Explore historic Weir Canyon Nature Preserve from the dorsum of your horse. All riders must cause got trail riding sense too pick out their ain check too able horse.
Location: Weir Canyon Nature Preserve
Website: www.ocparks.com/irvineranch
Cost: Free
Parking: Free
Special Instructions: For ages eighteen too up. Registration is required, sign-up online: www.letsgooutside.org/equestrianride. Driving directions volition live provided afterward registration.
September 15 – Shhh… Hike, Look too Listen
5:30 – 7:30 p.m.
End your twenty-four hr menstruum with a tranquility walk through the calming canyons of Black Star Canyon Wilderness Park. Bring a flashlight too live prepared for the canyon's cooler eve temperatures during this slow-paced walk.
Location: Black Star Canyon Wilderness Park
Website: www.ocparks.com/irvineranch
Cost: Free
Parking: Free
Special Instructions: Ages eighteen too up. Registration is required, sign-up online: www.letsgooutside.org/shhhhike. Driving directions volition live provided afterward registration.
September 16 – Tot Walk
9 – xi a.m.
Join Ranger Zak along with Laguna Canyon Foundation volunteers too pick out your immature ones (infant to historic menstruum three) to explore Aliso's wild backyard. We volition regard bugs, animate beingness tracks, plants, birds too cause got all kinds of outdoor fun!
Location: Aliso & Wood Canyons Wilderness Park. 28373 Alicia Parkway
Laguna Niguel, CA 92677
Website: www.ocparks.com/aliso
Cost: Free
Parking: $3 per vehicle
Special Instructions: Ages: infant to historic menstruum 3. Please sign-up online: www.eventbrite.com/totwalk. Aliso & Wood Canyons Wilderness Park, Ranger Headquarters, 28373 Alicia Pkwy (from southbound Aliso Creek Rd, plow correct on Alicia Parkway, outset correct on Awma Road, therefore left into parking lot).
September 16 – Full Moon Hike
6 – 8:30 p.m.
Hike with common staff too Laguna Canyon Foundation volunteers every bit the Sun sets too the Moon rises over Laurel too Willow Canyons. This is a leisurely hike. Observe the changes every bit twenty-four hr menstruum turns to nighttime too larn nigh nighttime wildlife. Hear the terminal plane songs too role the bat detector to take heed for their ultrasonic communication. The terrain on this 3.5 mile hike (600-ft. elevation gain) tin live steep, rocky too uneven.
Location: Laguna Coast Wilderness Park. 18751 Laguna Canyon Road
Laguna Beach, CA 92651
Website: www.ocparks.com/lagunacoast
Cost: Free
Parking: $3 per vehicle
Contact: (949) 497-8324
Special Instructions: Ages 12 too up. Participants should pick out water, a snack, a flashlight, a sweater or jacket, too have on long pants too proper closed-toed hiking shoes. Registration is required, sign-up online: www.eventbrite.com/fullmoonhike. Meet at Willow Canyon Staging Area (20101 Laguna Canyon Road, simply S of El Toro Road intersection).
September 17– The Birds of Limestone Canyon
8 – xi a.m.
Learn nigh plane species too how to position them during this birding walk inwards Limestone Canyon Nature Preserve.
Location: Limestone Canyon Nature Preserve
Website: www.ocparks.com/irvineranch
Cost: Free
Parking: Free
Special Instructions: Ages 12 too up. Registration is required, sign-up online: www.letsgooutside.org/birds. Driving directions volition live provided afterward registering.
September 17 – The Story of Irvine Ranch
8 – xi a.m.
Join a moderately challenging 5-mile hike inwards Weir Canyon Nature Preserve spell learning nigh the history of Irvine Ranch.
Location: Weir Canyon Nature Preserve
Website: www.ocparks.com/irvineranch
Cost: Free
Parking: Free
Special Instructions: For ages 12 too up. Registration is required, sign-up online: www.letsgooutside.org/storyofirvineranch. Driving directions volition live provided afterward registration.
September 17 – Geology Hike at Willow
8:30 – 11:30 a.m.
Step dorsum 25 1000000 years inwards Orange County's history to a fourth dimension when the seas receded too the San Andreas Fault was simply starting to form. With a Laguna Canyon Foundation volunteer naturalist, uncovering the geologic processes going on today too how they demeanour upon the natural landscape. This moderate 3-mile hike is over uneven, steep too sometimes rocky terrain with a 300-ft elevation gain.
Location: Laguna Coast Wilderness Park. 18751 Laguna Canyon Road
Laguna Beach, CA 92651
Website: www.ocparks.com/lagunacoast
Cost: Free
Parking: $3 per vehicle
Contact: (949) 923-2235
Special Instructions: For ages 10 too up. Registration is required, sign-up online: www.eventbrite.com/geologyhike. Laguna Coast Wilderness Park, James Dilley Preserve (I-5 or 405 S to 133 S to stoplight at 73 toll road; too brand a U-turn, become 1 block. Dilley is on the right.)
September 17 – Morning on the Mesa Loop Family Hike
9 – 11:30 a.m.
Start your morn off past times warming upwards along the Mesa Loop trail during a family-friendly, leisurely paced hike inwards Black Star Canyon Wilderness Park.
Location: Black Star Canyon Wilderness Park
Website: www.ocparks.com/irvineranch
Cost: Free
Parking: Free
Special Instructions: For ages 8 too up. Registration is required, sign-up online: www.letsgooutside.org/morningmesa. Driving directions volition live provided afterward registration.
September 17 – Coastal Cleanup Day 2016
9 a.m. – 12 p.m.
Every twelvemonth people bring together together at sites all over California to accept component division inwards the State's largest volunteer event. California Coastal Cleanup Day has removed over 750,000 pounds of trash too recyclables from beaches, lakes, too waterways. Join us inwards cleaning upwards the Bay!
Location: Upper Newport Bay Nature Preserve. 2301 University Drive
Newport Beach, CA 92660
Website: www.ocparks.com/newport
Cost: Free
Parking: Free
Contact: (949) 923-2269
Special Instructions: For to a greater extent than data delight see www.newportbay.org/cleanupday.
September 17 – Coastal Cleanup Day 2016
9 a.m. – 12 p.m.
Every twelvemonth people bring together together at sites all over California to accept component division inwards the State's largest volunteer event. California Coastal Cleanup Day has removed over 750,000 pounds of trash too recyclables from beaches, lakes, too waterways. Join us inwards cleaning upwards Capistrano Beach!
Location: Capistrano Beach Park. 35005 Beach Road
Capo Beach, CA 92675
Website: www.ocparks.com/capistrano
Cost: Free
Parking: Free
Contact: (949) 923-2280
Special Instructions: Please run into nigh the basketball game courts.
September 17 – Coastal Cleanup Day 2016
9 a.m. – 12 p.m.
Every twelvemonth people bring together together at sites all over California to accept component division inwards the State's largest volunteer event. California Coastal Cleanup Day has removed over 750,000 pounds of trash too recyclables from beaches, lakes, too waterways. Join us inwards cleaning upwards Salt Creek Beach!
Location: Salt Creek Beach Park. 33333 S. Pacific Coast Hwy.
Dana Point, CA 92629
Website: www.ocparks.com/saltcreekbeach
Cost: Free
Parking: Free
Contact: (949) 923-2280
Special Instructions: Please run into nigh the picnic shelters at Bluff Park.
September 17 – Coastal Cleanup Day 2016
9 a.m. – 12 p.m.
Every twelvemonth people bring together together at sites all over California to accept component division inwards the State's largest volunteer event. California Coastal Cleanup Day has removed over 750,000 pounds of trash too recyclables from beaches, lakes, too waterways. Join us inwards cleaning upwards Dana Point Harbor!
Location: Dana Point Harbor. 34551 Puerto Place Dana Point, CA 92629
Website: www.ocparks.com/danapointharbor
Cost: Free
Parking: Free
Contact: (949) 923-2280
Special Instructions: Please run into nigh Harbor Drive too Island Way at the harbor.
September 17 – Community Digitizing Day too Presentation
11 a.m. – 3 p.m.
Join us for a twenty-four hr menstruum of events celebrating Orange County’s leisure civilization – pick out your memories too memorabilia too brand your story a component division of OC history! We welcome too encourage you lot to pick out whatsoever too all items related to the history of electrical current OC Parks, every bit good every bit other items relating to a greater extent than to a greater extent ofttimes than non to leisure inwards Orange County. OC Parks staff too volunteers volition digitize your items too relieve them for you lot onto a costless flash drive.
Location: Old Orange County Courthouse. 211 W. Santa Ana Blvd.
Santa Ana, CA 92701
Website: www.ocparks.com/oldcourthouse
Cost: Free
Parking: Free
Contact: Justin Sikora at 714-973-6607
Special Instructions: For to a greater extent than data see www.ocparks.com/digitizingday.
September eighteen – Nursery Plant Propagation too Care Day
8 a.m. – 12 p.m.
Join us at our native constitute plant nursery every bit nosotros help 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, constitute at restoration sites, sterilize constitute containers, and/or help hold the facilities for the plants. Gain hands-on sense with habitat restoration spell working with other zany too interesting constitute lovers!
Location: Laguna Coast Wilderness Park. 18751 Laguna Canyon Road, Laguna Beach, CA 92651
Website: www.ocparks.com/lagunacoast
Cost: Free
Parking: Free passes volition live provided at the nursery
Contact: (949) 923-2235
Special Instructions: Registration is required, sign-up online: www.eventbrite.com/plantpropagation. Wear closed-toed shoes, pick out layered wearable too Sun protection (hat, sunscreen) too pick out water. Meet at Laguna Coast Wilderness Park, Willow Canyon Staging Area (west side of Laguna Canyon Rd/SR-133, simply S of El Toro Road). Park too walk upwards the gravel trail 100 yards to acquire to the little native constitute nursery, simply earlier the trailers.
September 18 – Evening Beginner Mountain Bike Ride: Limestone Canyon to The Sinks
4 – 6:30 p.m.
Adults tin savor a slow-paced guided mount cycle ride for beginners through the sycamores too oaks of Limestone Canyon Nature Preserve. Riders volition halt along the agency to utter nigh the native habitat too see The Sinks.
Location: Limestone Canyon Nature Preserve
Website: www.ocparks.com/irvineranch
Cost: Free
Parking: Free
Special Instructions: Ages eighteen too up. Registration is required, sign-up online: www.letsgooutside.org/bikeride. Driving directions volition live provided afterward registration.
September 19 – Tecate Cypress Stewardship
9:30 – 11:30 a.m.
Water too weed about immature Tecate cypress trees planted nigh the Fremont Staging Area to help this rare species thrive inwards Fremont Canyon Nature Preserve.
Location: Fremont Canyon Nature Preserve
Website: www.ocparks.com/irvineranch
Cost: Free
Parking: Free
Special Instructions: Ages 10 too up. Registration is required, sign-up online: www.letsgooutside.org/tecate. Driving directions volition live provided afterward registration.
September 21 – Wild North America – Preschool Program
10:15 – 11:15 a.m.
Come uncovering out what kinds of animals nosotros uncovering on our ain continent! Class includes hands-on learning, fun crafts, too coming together zoo animals upwards close! Location: OC Zoo. 1 Irvine Park Road Orange, CA 92869
Website: www.ocparks.com/zoo
Cost: $5 per kid (includes i adult)
Parking: $3 per vehicle
Contact: Marcy Crede-Booth at (714) 973-6846
Special Instructions: Ages 3-4 years onetime only. Parent must accompany kid for duration of program. Registration is required! Call (714) 973-6846 to register.
September 22 – Fitness Hike at Ridge Park
8:30 – xi a.m.
Raise your pump charge per unit of measurement too your spirits on this moderate, fast-paced, 6.5-mile hike (700-ft. elevation gain) over real steep, uneven terrain with Laguna Canyon Foundation volunteers.
Location: Laguna Coast Wilderness Park. 18751 Laguna Canyon Road
Laguna Beach, CA 92651
Website: www.ocparks.com/lagunacoast
Cost: Free
Parking: Free
Contact: (949) 497-8324
Special Instructions: Ages fifteen too up. Hike is non for beginners. Registration is required, sign-up online: www.eventbrite.com/ridgepark. Meet at Ridge Park Staging Area (Newport Coast Drive to Ridge Park Rd. eastward to end; run into at the gate.)
September 23 – Hike to East Sinks Viewing Deck
7 – xi a.m.
Come along an early on morn hike through Limestone Canyon Nature Preserve to the East Sinks Viewing Deck.
Location: Limestone Canyon Nature Preserve
Website: www.ocparks.com/irvineranch
Cost: Free
Parking: Free
Special Instructions: Ages eighteen too up. Registration is required, sign-up online: www.letsgooutside.org/viewingdeck. Driving directions volition live provided afterward registration.
September 23 – Animal Art I – Preschool Program
10:15 – 11:15 a.m.
Join us for an hr of inventiveness too fun with an animate beingness theme! Come prepare to acquire a fiddling messy! Class includes hands-on learning, fun crafts, too coming together zoo animals upwards close!
Location: Orange County Zoo. 1 Irvine Park Road Orange, CA 92869
Website: www.ocparks.com/zoo
Cost: $5 per kid (includes i adult)
Parking: $3 per vehicle
Contact: Marcy Crede-Booth at (714) 973-6846
Special Instructions: Ages 3-4 years onetime only. Parent must accompany kid for duration of program. Registration is required, telephone telephone (714) 973-6846 to register.
September 24 – Kids inwards Carriers Walk: Baker Meadow
10 – xi a.m.
Enjoy a morn stroll through Baker Meadow inwards Black Star Canyon Wilderness Park with your fiddling ones. This easy-to-travel 2-mile trail is suitable for off-road strollers, carrying packs too tiny feet.
Location: Black Star Canyon Wilderness Park
Website: www.ocparks.com/irvineranch
Cost: Free
Parking: Free
Special Instructions: All ages welcome. Registration required, sign-up online: letsgooutside.org/kidsincarriers. Driving directions volition live provided afterward registration.
September 24 – Family Hike: Round Canyon
4:30 – 6:30 p.m.
Hike along a fairly apartment trail spell watching for red-tailed hawks too mule deer inwards Limestone Canyon Nature Preserve.
Location: Limestone Canyon Nature Preserve
Website: www.ocparks.com/irvineranch
Cost: Free
Parking: Free
Special Instructions: Ages 6 too up. Registration is required, sign-up online: www.letsgooutside.org/familyhike. Driving directions volition live provided afterward registration.
September 25 – Bird Walk
8 – 10:30 a.m.
Spot year-round too summertime resident birds, with Laguna Canyon Foundation volunteer naturalists on this moderate 2-mile, degree hike over uneven terrain through i of the most various constitute communities inwards the United States.
Location: Aliso & Wood Canyons Wilderness Park. 28373 Alicia Parkway
Laguna Niguel, CA 92677
Website: www.ocparks.com/aliso
Cost: Free
Parking: $3 per vehicle
Contact: (949) 923-2200
Special Instructions: Ages 12 too upwards (minors must live accompanied past times an adult.) Please sign-up online: www.eventbrite.com/birdwalk. Wear hiking or walking shoes too pick out your binoculars! Aliso & Wood Canyons Wilderness Park, Ranger Headquarters, 28373 Alicia Pkwy (from southbound Aliso Creek Rd, plow correct on Alicia Parkway, outset correct on Awma Road, therefore left into parking lot).
September 25 – Yeeha! Agua Chinon Equestrian Ride
9 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Experience Agua Chinon Canyon from the dorsum of your Equus caballus during an equestrian ride inwards Limestone Canyon Nature Preserve. Equestrians must cause got their ain check too able horse.
Location: Limestone Canyon Nature Preserve
Website: www.ocparks.com/irvineranch
Cost: Free
Parking: Free
Special Instructions: Ages sixteen too up. Registration is required, sign-up online: www.letsgooutside.org/yeeha. Driving directions volition live provided afterward registration.
September 25– Family Science Sunday
10 a.m. – 3 p.m.
Free activities inwards the Muth Interpretive Center classroom i time a month, each i with a unlike educational subject to explore.
Location: Upper Newport Bay Nature Preserve. 2301 University Drive
Newport Beach, CA 92660
Website: www.ocparks.com/newport
Cost: Free
Parking: Free
Contact: (949) 923-2290
Special Instructions: Recommended for ages ii to 10. All activities are self guided. May include crafts, hand-on exhibits, hikes or more!
September 25 – Then too Now: An Interactive Discovery of Animals Living inwards OC's Past too Present
1 – 3 p.m.
Come out to Clark Regional Park on the terminal Dominicus of every calendar month to larn nigh the animals that ruled the province 10,000 years agone too the animals living inwards Orange County today. Visit the Show too Share activeness tabular array for hands-on exhibits too uncovering the similarities too differences betwixt past times too acquaint animals.
Location: Clark Regional Park. 8800 Rosecrans Ave. Buena Park, CA 90621
Cost: Free
Parking: $5 per vehicle
Contact: (714) 973-3170
Special Instructions: This is a free, family-friendly event. Meet at the interpretive center, pelting or shine. Pack a tiffin too remain for the twenty-four hr menstruum at the common next the program.
September 28 – Feathery Friends – Preschool Program
10:15 – 11:15 a.m.
Come larn nigh birds that tin wing too fifty-fifty those that can’t fly! Class includes hands-on learning, fun crafts, too coming together zoo animals upwards close!
Location: Orange County Zoo. 1 Irvine Park Road Orange, CA 92869
Website: www.ocparks.com/zoo
Cost: $5 per kid (includes i adult)
Parking: $3 per vehicle
Contact: Marcy Crede-Booth at (714) 973-6846
Special Instructions: Ages 3-4 years onetime only. Parent must accompany kid for duration of program. Registration is required, telephone telephone (714) 973-6846 to register.
September 29 – Fitness Hike at Willow
8:30 – 10:30 a.m.
Raise your pump charge per unit of measurement too your spirits on this strenuous, fast-paced, 5.5-mile hike over steep too uneven terrain (571-ft. elevation gain) with Laguna Canyon Foundation volunteers.
Location: Laguna Coast Wilderness Park. 18751 Laguna Canyon Road, Laguna Beach, CA 92651
Website: www.ocparks.com/lagunacoast
Cost: Free
Parking: $3 per vehicle
Contact: (949) 497-8324
Special Instructions: Ages fifteen too up. Registration is required, sign-up online: www.eventbrite.com/fitnesshikeatwillow. Laguna Coast Wilderness Park, Willow Canyon Staging Area (20101 Laguna Canyon Road, simply S of El Toro Road intersection).
