OC Parks APRIL 2015 calendar of events
April 1, 4, 8, 11, 15, 18, 22, 25, 29 – Modjeska House Tour
10 a.m. – 12 p.m.
Docent-led tour of the historic solid too grounds.
Location: 25151 Serrano Road, Lake Forest, CA 92630-2534
Contact: (949) 923–2230
Cost: $5 per person
Special Instructions: Advance reservations required, telephone telephone (949) 923-2230. Directions provided alongside reservations.
April 1 - iv – Easter Eggstravaganza at Irvine Regional Park
10 a.m. – v p.m. Weekdays
10 a.m. – six p.m. Weekends
Now through Saturday, Apr 4, the Easter bunny volition live on at Irvine Park Railroad for the annual Easter Eggstravaganza. The Easter Eggstravaganza volition live on opened upwards from 10 a.m. to v p.m. on weekdays too 10 a.m. to six p.m. on weekends.
Children ages ii through 12 tin participate inwards an Easter egg hunt, where each egg volition live on filled alongside candy or a prize. The Easter egg hunts get down daily at 10 a.m. Tickets must live on purchased on the hateful solar daytime of the upshot inwards club to have a wristband for the Easter egg hunt. Please visithttp://www.irvineparkrailroad.com/ for consummate details on the Easter egg hunts including times too costs.
There volition also live on a Luna bounce, hay ride, Easter cookie decorating, icon stands, carnival games, icon stands too human face upwards painting.
Now through Saturday, Apr 4, the Easter bunny volition live on at Irvine Park Railroad for the annual Easter Eggstravaganza. The Easter Eggstravaganza volition live on opened upwards from 10 a.m. to v p.m. on weekdays too 10 a.m. to six p.m. on weekends.
Children ages ii through 12 tin participate inwards an Easter egg hunt, where each egg volition live on filled alongside candy or a prize. The Easter egg hunts get down daily at 10 a.m. Tickets must live on purchased on the hateful solar daytime of the upshot inwards club to have a wristband for the Easter egg hunt. Please visithttp://www.irvineparkrailroad.com/ for consummate details on the Easter egg hunts including times too costs.
There volition also live on a Luna bounce, hay ride, Easter cookie decorating, icon stands, carnival games, icon stands too human face upwards painting.
Location: Irvine Regional Park. 1 Irvine Park Road, Orange, CA 92869 Website: www.ocparks.com/irvinepark/
Parking: $3 per vehicle weekdays, $5 per vehicle weekends
Contact: (714) 973–6835
Special Instructions: For to a greater extent than information, delight visit: http://www.irvineparkrailroad.com/content/easter-eggstravaganza.
April 2 – Fitness Hike at Dilley
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 (900-ft. superlative gain) alongside Laguna Canyon Foundation volunteers.
Location: Laguna Coast Wilderness Park. 18751 Laguna Canyon Road, Laguna Beach, CA 92651
Website: www.ocparks.com/lagunacoast/
Parking: $3 per vehicle
Contact: (949) 923-2235
Special Instructions: Ages fifteen too up. Reservations required, sign-up online: www.lagunacanyon.org/activities. James Dilley Preserve (405 South to 133 South to stoplight at 73 turn-off; brand a U-turn, acquire 1 block. Dilley is on the right). For questions, telephone telephone (949) 497-8324 M-F or (949) 923-2235 Sat - Sun.
April ii – Bonkers for Bunnies – Preschool Program
10:15 – 11:15 a.m.
Come larn all virtually bunnies too run into some upwards close! Class includes hands-on learning too fun crafts.
Location: Orange County Zoo. 1 Irvine Park Road, Orange, CA 92869
Website: http://www.ocparks.com/oczoo/
Cost: $5 per kid (one rear included) Parking: $3 per vehicle
Contact: (714) 973-6846
Special Instructions: PHONE REGISTRATION REQUIRED. Call Marcy Crede-Booth, Education Coordinator at (714) 973-6846. Please banking venture annotation the Easter-themed classes fill upwards up quickly! For ages 3 to iv years old. Parent must accompany kid for duration of program. Additional parents/siblings/family/friends must pay admission fee to move inwards zoo.
April 3 – Wild Tales
10:30 – 11:30 a.m.
Visit alongside Preserve staff for story-telling fun! After a story, larn to a greater extent than virtually the natural history of the Bay through crafts too nature walks. Come prepared for an exciting outdoor experience!
Location: Upper Newport Bay. 2301 University Drive, Newport Beach, CA 92660
Cost: $5 per pupil Parking: Free
Contact: (949) 923-2290
Special Instructions: Ages ii to v years. Space is express too pre-registration is required. Please telephone telephone (949) 923-2275, or electronic mail unbic@ocparks.com to register.
April iv – CPF Monthly Meeting
9:30 – eleven a.m.
Interested inwards volunteering at Caspers Wilderness Park? Join our monthly volunteer coming together held inwards the Caspers Wilderness Park Nature Center. This is a swell chance to larn but what volunteers do, equally good equally run into others who dearest nature, the outdoors too preserving the common for all.
General concern coming together starts at 9:30 a.m., followed yesteryear an informative lecture presented yesteryear invitee speakers at 10 a.m. April Guest Speaker – to live on announced.
General concern coming together starts at 9:30 a.m., followed yesteryear an informative lecture presented yesteryear invitee speakers at 10 a.m. April Guest Speaker – to live on announced.
Location: Caspers Wilderness Park. 33401 Ortega Highway, San Juan Capistrano, CA 92675
Cost: Free Parking: Free
Contact: (949) 923-2210
Special Instructions: Ages xvi years too up. For to a greater extent than information, telephone telephone the common component at (949) 923-2210.
April 4 – Redwood Hike
9:30 – eleven a.m.
Join OC Parks' trained staff on the firstly Sabbatum of the calendar month for an slow 1.1-mile interpretive hike to the park's Coastal Redwood grove. You will use your v senses to engage alongside nature equally yous stroll to the Redwoods. You volition also get got an chance to learn virtually our native plants along the way. The hike begins at 9:30 a.m. from the park's Nature Center. Don't forget to see our Nature Center when yous are there, too!
Location: Carbon Canyon Regional Park. 4442 Carbon Canyon Road, Brea, CA 92823
Cost: Free Parking: $5 per vehicle
Contact: (714) 973-3160
Special Instructions: All ages. Participants should recall water, sunscreen, hat, hiking shoes. Meet at Nature Center located at eastward halt of the park. Reservations preferred, delight telephone telephone (714) 973-3160 or electronic mail carboncanyon@ocparks.com.
April 4, 11, 18, 25 – Guided Interpretive Hike
10 – eleven a.m.
Join our naturalists on a nature walk too larn virtually the local plants, animals too history of Irvine Regional Park. Light to moderate walking on both paved paths too trails.
Location: Irvine Regional Park. 1 Irvine Park Road, Orange, CA 92869 Website: www.ocparks.com/irvinepark/
Cost: Free Parking: $5 per vehicle
Contact: (714) 973–6835
Special Instructions: All ages welcome. Meet at the Nature Center close the OC Zoo inwards parking lot #19.
April iv – Family Hike
3 – v p.m.
Come too relish an easy, 2.5-mile household unit of measurement hike over moderate but uneven terrain (45-ft. superlative gain) through i of the most various areas of the common to Barbara’s Lake too back. Hike is led yesteryear Laguna Canyon Foundation volunteer naturalists.
Location: Laguna Coast Wilderness Park. 18751 Laguna Canyon Road, Laguna Beach, CA 92651
Website: www.ocparks.com/lagunacoast/
Parking: $3 per vehicle
Contact: (949) 923-2235
Special Instructions: Reservations required, sign-up online: www.lagunacanyon.org/activities. James Dilley Preserve (405 South to 133 South to stoplight at 73 turn-off; brand a U-turn, acquire 1 block. Dilley is on the right). For questions, telephone telephone (949) 497-8324 M-F or (949) 923-2235 Sat - Sun.
April 4, 11, 18, 25 – Campfire Program
8 – ix p.m.
Every Sabbatum night, bring together us for a campfire computer program that may include a slide presentation, wilderness safety, games too activities for children, creature adaptations, skins too skulls, a alive creature demonstration too a run a hazard to see the Nature Center. Topics may vary weekly.
Location: Caspers Wilderness Park. 33401 Ortega Highway, San Juan Capistrano, CA 92675
Cost: Free Parking: $5 per vehicle
Contact: (949) 923-2210
Special Instructions: All ages welcome!
April 5, 12, 19, 26 – Ranger Led Nature Hike
8 – ix a.m.
Join our Park Rangers Dominicus mornings for an slow 1-mile hike on the Nature Trail. The trail takes visitors through grassland, oak woodland, riparian too sandy cactus scrub communities.
Location: Caspers Wilderness Park. 33401 Ortega Highway, San Juan Capistrano, CA 92675
Cost: Free Parking: $5 per vehicle
Contact: (949) 923-2210
Special Instructions: Meet at Old Corral Day Use area. Wear comfortable vesture too hiking shoes. Sunscreen, H2O too insect repellent are recommended. Rain volition cancel hike.
April 8 – Yoga Hike
9 – 10:30 a.m.
Stretch your hear too trunk on this 2.4-mile hike alongside a yoga twist over steep too uneven terrain (100-ft. superlative gain) led yesteryear Laguna Canyon Foundation volunteers.
Location: Aliso too Wood Canyons Wilderness Park. 28373 Alicia Parkway, Laguna Niguel, CA 92677
Parking: Free
Contact: (949) 923-2235
Special Instructions: Ages 12 too up. Reservations required, sign-up online: www.lagunacanyon.org/activities. Aliso & Wood Canyons Wilderness Park, Canyon View Staging Area (from southbound Aliso Creek Rd, plough correct on Glenwood [turns into Pacific Park] too correct on Canyon Vistas. Meet at the entrance to Canyon View Park). For questions, telephone telephone (949) 497-8324 M-F or (949) 923-2200 Sat - Sun.
April 8 – Birds of Mason Regional Park
9 – 10:30 a.m.
Led yesteryear an OC Parks volunteer too experienced birdwatcher, this is a beginner-friendly computer program virtually the birds of William R. Mason Regional Park. On an slow walk of 1/2 mile about Mason, nosotros volition persuasion too hash out a diversity of birds that role the park. We'll banking venture check for dissimilar types of ducks, geese, too grebes inwards the ponds. We’ll await too hear for songbirds on the trees too bushes. We may also location shorebirds too hawks.
Location: Mason Regional Park. 18712 University Drive, Irvine, CA 92612
Website: www.ocparks.com/masonpark
Cost: Free Parking: $3 per vehicle
Contact: (949) 923-2220
Special Instructions: Water, sunscreen, a lid too comfortable shoes are recommended. Bring your binoculars to acquire a improve persuasion of the birds! Turn left at the halt sign afterward the entrance gate too common inwards Parking Lot B. We volition run into at the picnic tabular array close the Ranger Office yesteryear the common entrance. Rain volition cancel event.
April ix – 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. superlative gain) over really steep, uneven terrain alongside Laguna Canyon Foundation volunteers
Location: Laguna Coast Wilderness Park. 18751 Laguna Canyon Road, Laguna Beach, CA 92651
Website: www.ocparks.com/lagunacoast/
Parking: $3 per vehicle
Contact: (949) 923-2235
Special Instructions: Ages fifteen too up. Online reservations required, sign-up online: www.lagunacanyon.org/activities. Laguna Coast Wilderness Park, Little Sycamore Canyon Staging Area/Nix Nature Center (west side of Laguna Canyon Rd/SR-133, some 3.5 miles southward of I-5/405). For questions, telephone telephone (949) 497-8324 Monday – Friday or (949) 923-2235 Sat - Sun.
April 9, 16, 23 – Tideland Tykes
10:30 – 11:30 a.m.
Join our save staff for a fun-filled rear too kid sense that may include arts too crafts, storytelling, hands-on activities or outdoor nature walks. Come prepared for an exciting outdoor experience!
Location: Upper Newport Bay. 2301 University Drive, Newport Beach, CA 92660
Cost: $5 per pupil Parking: Free
Contact: (949) 923-2290
Special Instructions: Ages ii to v years recommended. Space is express too registration is required. Please telephone telephone (949) 923-2275, or electronic mail unbic@ocparks.com to register.
April 10 – Down on the Farm – Preschool Program
10:15 – 11:15 a.m.
Come larn all virtually farm animals including chickens, pigs, goats, sheep, too more! Class includes hands-on learning, fun crafts, too coming together zoo animals upwards close!
Come larn all virtually farm animals including chickens, pigs, goats, sheep, too more! 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: http://www.ocparks.com/oczoo/
Cost: $5 per kid (one rear included) Parking: $3 per vehicle
Contact: (714) 973-6846
Special Instructions: For ages 3 to iv years old. PHONE REGISTRATION REQUIRED. Call Marcy Crede-Booth, Education Coordinator at (714) 973-6846. Parent must accompany kid for duration of program. Additional parents/siblings/family/friends must pay admission fee to move inwards zoo.
April eleven – 2nd Sabbatum Trail Work Day
8:30 – eleven a.m.
Come bring together common staff too our trail leaders yesteryear volunteering to assist alongside habitat restoration, non-native constitute removal too trail move throughout Irvine Regional Park. Please have on jeans too durable shoes or boots. Park provides tools too gloves. Bring sunscreen, hat, snacks too water.
Location: Irvine Regional Park. 1 Irvine Park Road, Orange, CA 92869 Website: www.ocparks.com/irvinepark/
Cost: Free Parking: Free for volunteers
Contact: (714) 973–6835
Special Instructions: Ideal for ages 12 too up. Minors must live on accompanied yesteryear an adult. Large schoolhouse groups/companies welcome, telephone telephone (714) 973-6836 for grouping registration.
April eleven – Fitness Challenge for All
9 – 10:30 a.m.
Cardio on a treadmill or cardio alongside an bounding main view? Push your personal workout goals too never acquire left behind equally nosotros cater to a make of fitness levels. It’s a swell run a hazard to consider wild animals too larn all virtually Aliso too Wood Canyons from common staff. This is 5-miles (900-ft. superlative gain).
Location: Aliso too Wood Canyons Wilderness Park. 28373 Alicia Parkway, Laguna Niguel, CA 92677
Parking: Free
Contact: (949) 923-2235
Special Instructions: Ages fifteen too up. Reservations required, sign-up online: www.lagunacanyon.org/activities. Aliso & Wood Canyons Wilderness Park, Canyon View Staging Area (from southbound Aliso Creek Rd, plough correct on Glenwood [turns into Pacific Park] too correct on Canyon Vistas. Meet at the entrance to Canyon View Park). For questions, telephone telephone (949) 497-8324 M-F or (949) 923-2200 Sat - Sun.
April 11 – California Native Plants & Wildflower Hike
8:30 – 11:30 a.m.
Learn virtually the California Native Plants too wildflowers alongside a Laguna Canyon Foundation volunteer naturalist on this enjoyable 2.5-mile hike (45-ft superlative gain) over moderately uneven terrain.
Location: Laguna Coast Wilderness Park. 18751 Laguna Canyon Road, Laguna Beach, CA 92651
Website: www.ocparks.com/lagunacoast/
Parking: $3 per vehicle
Contact: (949) 923-2235
Special Instructions: Reservations required, sign-up online: www.lagunacanyon.org/activities. James Dilley Preserve (405 South to 133 South to stoplight at 73 turn-off; brand a U-turn, acquire 1 block. Dilley is on the right). For questions, telephone telephone (949) 497-8324 M-F or (949) 923-2235 Sat - Sun.
April eleven – Wildlife Walk: Tracks
9 – 10 a.m.
Although nosotros may non ever consider the animals that alive inwards the park, they volition oft acquire out behind evidence. Join us on a walk to search for creature tracks. We volition larn virtually identifying some native creature tracks, hash out other types of possible creature evidence, too brand rail rubbings that everyone tin accept habitation alongside them.
Location: Yorba Regional Park. 7600 E. La Palma, Anaheim, CA 92807
Website: www.ocparks.com/parks/yorba/
Cost: Free Parking: $5 per vehicle
Contact: (714) 973-6615
Special Instructions: The computer program is ideal for kids ages 5-10, however, everyone is welcome! This upshot volition live on outside. Please convey H2O too clothes accordingly. Email yorbapark@ocparks.com to register. Please include your name, telephone number, number of participants inwards your group, too ages of participant(s) inwards your email. For to a greater extent than information, delight visit: http://ocparks.com/civicax/inc/blobfetch.aspx?BlobID=42749.
April eleven – Morning Fitness Hike
9 – 10:30 a.m.
Take a mildly strenuous 2.5-mile hike along the Back Bay alongside Preserve staff. The hike volition get down inwards front end of the Muth Center too volition live on on both paved too dirt paths alongside by too large apartment surfaces.
Location: Upper Newport Bay. 2301 University Drive, Newport Beach, CA 92660
Parking: Free
Contact: (949) 923-2275
Special Instructions: Space is express too pre-registration is required. Please telephone telephone (949) 923-2275, or electronic mail unbic@ocparks.com to register.
April 12 – Second Dominicus Restoration Program
9 a.m. – 12 p.m.
Join Preserve staff too other volunteers inwards enhancing the Bay’s habitat for local wildlife. Activities may include non-native constitute removal, planting natives, watering, trash cleanup too Butterfly Garden maintenance. No sense is necessary; water, snacks too tools are provided.
Location: Upper Newport Bay. 2301 University Drive, Newport Beach, CA 92660
Cost: Free Parking: Free
Contact: (949) 923-2290
Special Instructions: Minors aged xvi too younger must get got legal guardian introduce at all times. Space is express too pre-registration is required. Please telephone telephone (949) 923-2275, or electronic mail unbic@ocparks.com to register. Rain or estrus advisories cancels event.
April 12 – The Mysterious World of O’Neill Regional Park
9 – 10:30 a.m.
Have yous ever wondered “where are all the wild animals inwards the park?” Visit a Show too Share Exhibit located adjacent to the O’Neill Park Nature Center too regain mysterious clues animals acquire out behind. Make a wild creature rail mold too relish nature crafts too games.
Location: O’Neill Regional Park. 30982 Trabuco Canyon Road, Trabuco Canyon, CA 92678
Website: www.ocparks.com/oneillpark/
Cost: Free Parking: $5 per vehicle
Contact: (949) 923-2260
April 12 – Wilderness Walkers
2 – 4:30 p.m.
Enjoy a wonderful, moderate 3-mile walk (535-ft. superlative gain) through Laguna Coast Wilderness Park. Catch views of the canyons too mount ranges from the ridge move yesteryear too and so walk downwards to Barbara’s Lake, a hidden precious stone too the entirely natural lake inwards Orange County.
Location: Laguna Coast Wilderness Park. 18751 Laguna Canyon Road, Laguna Beach, CA 92651
Website: www.ocparks.com/lagunacoast/
Parking: $3 per vehicle
Contact: (949) 923-2235
Special Instructions: Ages 12 too up. Reservations required, sign-up online: www.lagunacanyon.org/activities. James Dilley Preserve (405 South to 133 South to stoplight at 73 turn-off; brand a U-turn, acquire 1 block. Dilley is on the right). For questions, telephone telephone (949) 497-8324 M-F or (949) 923-2235 Sat - Sun.
April 14 – California Native Plants: Tools, Food too Building Materials
9 – eleven a.m.
Learn virtually the many fascinating uses of California native plants during the pre-mission period, on this 2-mile hike (490-ft superlative 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/
Parking: $3 per vehicle
Contact: (949) 923-2235
Special Instructions: Ages 12 too up. Reservations required, sign-up online: www.lagunacanyon.org/activities. James Dilley Preserve (405 South to 133 South to stoplight at 73 turn-off; brand a U-turn, acquire 1 block. Dilley is on the right). For questions, telephone telephone (949) 497-8324 M-F or (949) 923-2235 Sat - Sun.
April fifteen – Magnificent Mammals – Preschool Program
10:15 – 11:15 a.m.
Come larn all virtually animals covered inwards fur! 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: http://www.ocparks.com/oczoo/
Cost: $5 per kid (one rear included) Parking: $3 per vehicle
Contact: (714) 973-6846
Special Instructions: PHONE REGISTRATION REQUIRED. Call Marcy Crede-Booth, Education Coordinator at (714) 973-6846. Please banking venture annotation the Easter-themed classes fill upwards up quickly! For ages 3 to iv years old. Parent must accompany kid for duration of program. Additional parents/siblings/family/friends must pay admission fee to move inwards zoo.
April xvi – Fitness Hike at Ridge Park
8:30 – eleven a.m.
Raise your pump charge per unit of measurement too your spirits on this difficult, strenuous too fast-paced, 6.5-mile hike (700-ft. superlative gain) over really steep, uneven terrain alongside Laguna Canyon Foundation volunteers.
Location: Laguna Coast Wilderness Park. 18751 Laguna Canyon Road, Laguna Beach, CA 92651
Website: www.ocparks.com/lagunacoast/
Parking: Free
Contact: (949) 923-2235
Special Instructions: Ages fifteen too up. Not for beginners. Hiking poles suggested. Online reservations required, sign-up online: www.lagunacanyon.org/activities. Ridge Park Staging Area (Newport Coast Drive to Ridge Park Rd. eastward to end; run into at the gate.) For questions, telephone telephone (949) 497-8324 Monday – Friday or (949) 923-2235 Sat - Sun.
April 17 – Tot Walk
9 – eleven a.m.
Join Ranger Zak along alongside Laguna Canyon Foundation volunteers too convey your immature ones (infant to historic menstruum three) to explore Aliso's wild backyard. We volition consider bugs, creature tracks, plants, birds too get got all kinds of outdoor fun!
Location: Aliso too Wood Canyons Wilderness Park. 28373 Alicia Parkway, Laguna Niguel, CA 92677
Parking: $3 per vehicle
Contact: (949) 497-8324
Special Instructions: Online reservations required, sign-up online: www.lagunacanyon.org/activities. Aliso & Wood Canyons Wilderness Park Ranger Headquarters, 28373 Alicia Parkway (from southbound Aliso Creek Road, plough correct on Alicia Parkway, firstly correct on Awma Road, left into parking lot). For questions, telephone telephone (949) 497-8324 Monday – Friday or (949) 923-2235 Sat - Sun.
April xviii – Keep It Wild Volunteer Day
8 – eleven a.m.
Come on out too assist restore the wild lands nosotros so enjoy! There’s no improve agency to start a Sabbatum morn than yesteryear joining Laguna Canyon Foundation too OC Parks staff inwards an invigorating projection of non-native constitute removal and/or planting native plants. Help us brand a healthier environs for the native wild animals too for ourselves.
Location: Laguna Coast Wilderness Park. 18751 Laguna Canyon Road, Laguna Beach, CA 92651
Website: www.ocparks.com/lagunacoast/
Cost: Free Parking: Free for Keep It Wild Volunteers
Contact: (949) 923-2235
Special Instructions: Reservations required, sign-up online: www.lagunacanyon.org/activities. Little Sycamore Staging Area/Nix Nature Center (west side of Laguna Canyon Rd/SR-133, some 3.5 miles southward of I 5/405). For questions, telephone telephone (949) 497-8324 Monday – Friday or (949) 923-2235 Sat - Sun.
April xviii – Keep It Wild Volunteer Day
8 – eleven a.m.
Come on out too assist restore the wild lands nosotros so enjoy! What improve agency to start a Sabbatum morn than to bring together Laguna Canyon Foundation too OC Parks staff inwards an invigorating projection of non-native constitute removal an/or planting native plants. Help us brand a healthier environs for native wild animals too for ourselves.
Location: Aliso too Wood Canyons Wilderness Park. 28373 Alicia Parkway, Laguna Niguel, CA 92677
Cost: Free Parking: Free for Keep It Wild Volunteers
Contact: (949) 497-8324
Special Instructions: Reservations required, sign-up online: www.lagunacanyon.org/activities. Aliso & Wood Canyons Wilderness Park, Ranger Headquarters, 28373 Alicia Parkway (from southbound Aliso Creek Road, plough correct on Alicia Parkway, firstly correct on Awma Road, left into parking lot). For questions, telephone telephone (949) 497-8324 M-F or (949) 923-2200 Sat - Sun.
April nineteen – Young Field Biologist Series: Early basis Day Hike
8:30 – 10 a.m.
Celebrate the upcoming basis Day yesteryear assisting the park’s Resource Specialist alongside fun champaign studies at the Ranger Station too inwards Aliso Creek. For this installment, we’ll scoop H2O from the creek to survey aquatic insects, banking venture check our wild animals camera, too examine watershed environmental issues. Bring your photographic goggle box camera too a notepad to document too compare your findings. Minimal hiking (1/2 mile, 50-ft. superlative gain).
Location: Aliso too Wood Canyons Wilderness Park. 28373 Alicia Parkway, Laguna Niguel, CA 92677
Parking: Free
Contact: (949) 497-8324
Special Instructions: Reservations required, sign-up online: www.lagunacanyon.org/activities. Aliso & Wood Canyons Wilderness Park, Ranger Headquarters (newly renovated staging area!), 28373 Alicia Pkwy (from southbound Aliso Creek Rd, plough correct on Alicia Parkway, firstly correct on Awma Road, too so left into parking lot). For questions, telephone telephone (949) 497-8324 M-F or (949) 923-2200 Sat - Sun.
April nineteen – Restoration Day
8:30 – 11:30 a.m.
Want to relish the outdoors too assist accept tending of common ecosystems? Join us for Restoration Days at Peters Canyon Regional Park every 3rd Dominicus from 8:30 to 11:30 a.m. Recommended to convey H2O too snacks, get got sunscreen, too have on pants, long sleeve shirts too boots.
Location: Peters Canyon Regional Park. 8548 E. Canyon View Ave., Orange, CA 92869
Website: http://ocparks.com/peterscanyon/
Cost: Free
Contact: (714) 973-6611
Special Instructions: Please register yesteryear calling (714) 973-6611 or emailing peterscanyon@ocparks.com.
April nineteen – Morning Walk Around the Lake
9 – eleven a.m.
Come relish a wonderful morn walk about the lake too larn virtually the native plants too critters inwards the park. This is an slow 2.5 mile walk (both paved too dirt trail) alongside no superlative gain. Led yesteryear Laguna Canyon Foundation Volunteer Naturalists. Dogs on leashes welcome.
Location: Laguna Niguel Regional Park. 28241 La Paz Road, Laguna Niguel, CA 92677
Website: http://ocparks.com/lagunaniguelpark/
Cost: Free Parking: $5 per vehicle
Contact: (949) 923-2240
Special Instructions: Ages 8 too up. Meet at parking lot closest to Shelter 3. Online reservations required: www.lagunacanyon.org/activities.html. For questions, telephone telephone (949) 497-8324 Monday – Friday or (949) 923-2235 Sat - Sun.
April 22 – Beginning Fitness Hike
9 – 10:30 a.m.
Now is a swell fourth dimension to start a novel fitness routine commencement alongside an slow 2.5-mile hike over moderate but uneven terrain to Barbara’s Lake too dorsum (100-ft. superlative gain). Join Laguna Canyon Foundation volunteer too registered dietitian to larn virtually fitness too nutrition during this 1.5-hour hike.
Location: Laguna Coast Wilderness Park. 18751 Laguna Canyon Road, Laguna Beach, CA 92651
Website: www.ocparks.com/lagunacoast/
Parking: $3 per vehicle
Contact: (949) 923-2235
Special Instructions: Ages 12 too up. Wear walking or hiking shoes, hat, sunscreen too convey water. Reservations required, sign-up online: www.lagunacanyon.org/activities. James Dilley Preserve (405 South to 133 South to stoplight at 73 turn-off; brand a U-turn, acquire 1 block. Dilley is on the right). For questions, telephone telephone (949) 497-8324 M-F or (949) 923-2235 Sat - Sun.
April 23 – Fitness Hike at Willow
8:30 – 9:30 a.m.
Raise your pump charge per unit of measurement too your spirits on this strenuous too fast-paced, 5.5-mile hike (571-ft. superlative gain) over steep too uneven terrain alongside Laguna Canyon Foundation volunteers.
Location: Laguna Coast Wilderness Park. 18751 Laguna Canyon Road, Laguna Beach, CA 92651
Website: www.ocparks.com/lagunacoast/
Parking: $3 per vehicle
Contact: (949) 923-2235
Special Instructions: Ages fifteen too up. Reservations required, sign-up online: www.lagunacanyon.org/activities. Willow Canyon Staging Area (20101 Laguna Canyon Road, but southward of El Toro Road intersection). For questions, telephone telephone (949) 497-8324 Monday – Friday or (949) 923-2235 Sat - Sun.
April 23 – Park Planning Workshop #3
6 – 8 p.m.
Learn virtually the projection to do a General Development Plan (GDP) for Peters Canyon. H5N1 gross domestic product is a conception to guide common management too resources.
At this workshop, the projection squad volition brand a presentation of background information too analysis too volition introduce some option concept plans. Participants are too so invited to hash out their thoughts inwards groups.
Project information is available on the Peters Canyon General Development Plan page.
At this workshop, the projection squad volition brand a presentation of background information too analysis too volition introduce some option concept plans. Participants are too so invited to hash out their thoughts inwards groups.
Project information is available on the Peters Canyon General Development Plan page.
Location: Irvine Regional Park. 1 Irvine Park Road, Orange, CA 92869 Website: www.ocparks.com/irvinepark/
Cost: Free Parking: Free for volunteers
Contact: (714) 973–6835
Special Instructions: This coming together volition accept house at Irvine Regional Park inwards the Soda Fountain Building. In compliance alongside the Americans alongside Disabilities Act, those requiring accommodations for this coming together should notify OC Parks at (714) 973-6865.
April 25 – Let’s Go Hiking
8 – 10:30 a.m.
Do yous desire to accept a hike alongside other nature enthusiasts? Enjoy a 3.8-mile, moderate (600-ft. superlative gain) hike through Laurel too Willow Canyons alongside Laguna Canyon Foundation volunteers. You volition sense a diversity of constitute communities, from Coastal Sage Scrub to Oak Woodland too relish a persuasion of the bounding main at the top. Minimal interpretation, but questions welcome. The terrain tin oft live on rocky too uneven.
Location: Laguna Coast Wilderness Park. 18751 Laguna Canyon Road, Laguna Beach, CA 92651
Website: www.ocparks.com/lagunacoast/
Parking: $3 per vehicle
Contact: (949) 923-2235
Special Instructions: Ages fifteen too up. Participants should convey water, a hat, a snack too have on proper hiking shoes. Reservations required, sign-up online: www.lagunacanyon.org/activities. Willow Canyon Staging Area (20101 Laguna Canyon Road, but southward of El Toro Road intersection). For questions, telephone telephone (949) 497-8324 Monday – Friday or (949) 923-2235 Sat - Sun.
April 25 – basis Day at Peter too Mary Muth Center
10 a.m. – 3 p.m.
Join us for the 25th Annual basis Day Celebration at the Bay presented yesteryear Newport Bay Conservancy inwards partnership alongside OC Parks. Science uncovering too arts and crafts booths, scavenger hunt, alive entertainment, Newport beach celluloid festival environs films too nutrient trucks.
Location: Upper Newport Bay. 2301 University Drive, Newport Beach, CA 92660
Cost: Free
Contact: (949) 923-2290
Special Instructions: Visit http://newportbay.org/ for to a greater extent than information.
April 26 – Meditating inwards Nature
6 – 7:30 a.m.
Relax inwards nature. Enjoy a brusk walking meditation, breathing too energization exercises, too sitting meditation. Bring a blanket too a pillow. No sense necessary.
Location: Laguna Coast Wilderness Park. 18751 Laguna Canyon Road, Laguna Beach, CA 92651
Website: www.ocparks.com/lagunacoast/
Parking: $3 per vehicle
Contact: (949) 923-2235
Special Instructions: Ages xvi too up. Online reservations required, sign-up online: www.lagunacanyon.org/activities. Laguna Coast Wilderness Park, Little Sycamore Canyon Staging Area/Nix Nature Center (west side of Laguna Canyon Rd/SR-133, some 3.5 miles southward of I-5/405). For questions, telephone telephone (949) 497-8324 Monday – Friday or (949) 923-2235 Sat - Sun.
April 26 – Birding Walk
8 – eleven a.m.
Join OC Parks Volunteer Mike Clayton for a morn of birding at Laguna Niguel Regional Park. With its meandering streams too 44-acre lake, the common attracts a diversity of birds, including waterfowl too shore birds.
Location: Laguna Niguel Regional Park. 28241 La Paz Road, Laguna Niguel, CA 92677
Website: http://ocparks.com/lagunaniguelpark/
Cost: Free Parking: $5 per vehicle
Contact: (949) 923-2240
Special Instructions: Beginning too intermediate birders are welcome. Participants must live on 10 years onetime too higher upwards too children must live on accompanied yesteryear an adult. Program is free, run into at the shelter #3 parking lot within the gate too to the right.
April 26 – Family Bandito Bike Ride to Dripping Cave
8:30 – 10:30 a.m.
Join a band of wheel wielding immature explorers on a ride to Aliso’s most intriguing attraction. We’ll larn the mysterious legends of this famed bandit hideout equally good equally its previous inhabitants- the native Ajachamen people. Earn a Ranger badge for beingness an accomplice on the journey.
Location: Aliso too Wood Canyons Wilderness Park. 28373 Alicia Parkway, Laguna Niguel, CA 92677
Cost: Free Parking: $3 per vehicle
Contact: (949) 497-8324
Special Instructions: Ages 8 too upwards (or peddled yesteryear adult) who tin comfortably ride v miles (150 ft. superlative gain), dirt trails alongside some sandy sections. Bike, helmet, water, snack too atmospheric condition appropriate clothing/shoes are required. Reservations required, sign-up online: www.lagunacanyon.org/activities. Aliso & Wood Canyons Wilderness Park, Ranger Headquarters, 28373 Alicia Parkway (from southbound Aliso Creek Road, plough correct on Alicia Parkway, firstly correct on Awma Road, left into parking lot). For questions, telephone telephone (949) 497-8324 M-F or (949) 923-2200 Sat - Sun.
April thirty – Fitness Hike at Canyon View
8:30 – eleven a.m.
Raise your pump charge per unit of measurement too your spirits on this strenuous, fast-paced, 6-mile hike over steep too uneven terrain (400-ft superlative gain) alongside Laguna Canyon Foundation volunteers.
Location: Aliso too Wood Canyons Wilderness Park. 28373 Alicia Parkway, Laguna Niguel, CA 92677
Parking: Free
Contact: (949) 497-8324
Special Instructions: Ages fifteen too up. Online reservations required, sign-up online: www.lagunacanyon.org/activities. Aliso & Wood Canyons Wilderness Park, Canyon View Staging Area (from southbound Aliso Creek Road, plough correct on Glenwood [turns into Pacific Park] too correct on Canyon Vistas, run into at the entrance to Canyon View Park). For questions, telephone telephone (949) 497-8324 Monday – Friday or (949) 923-2235 Sat - Sun.