Outdoor Activity

Explore the winter woods with seasoned snowshoers and outdoorsmen.  Discover Camp Denison Recreation Area's dynamic landscape under a quiet blanket of snow. We plan to snow shoe (or hike!) for roughly an hour along the trails.

The red fox is a clever and attractive mammal that is active during winter, stalking rabbits, mice, meadow voles, and birds. We will read Fox's Dream by Keizabur Tejima. Then we will wander along the trails to look for tracks or signs left by foxes and other mammals. Perhaps we will be lucky enough to track the red fox back to its den.

This parent/child program is designed for the creative, curious, and active preschooler. Each 90-minute session offers a structured series of activities including original songs, movement, dramatic play, outdoor exploration, and a thematic snack. When it's time to go home, you'll receive coloring pages, song lyrics, vocabulary, a fun fact sheet, and a suggested reading list via e-mail.

This parent/child program is designed for the creative, curious, and active preschooler. Each 90-minute session offers a structured series of activities including original songs, movement, dramatic play, outdoor exploration, and a thematic snack. When it's time to go home, you'll receive coloring pages, song lyrics, vocabulary, a fun fact sheet, and a suggested reading list via e-mail.

This parent/child program is designed for the creative, curious, and active preschooler. Each 90-minute session offers a structured series of activities including original songs, movement, dramatic play, outdoor exploration, and a thematic snack. When it's time to go home, you'll receive coloring pages, song lyrics, vocabulary, a fun fact sheet, and a suggested reading list via e-mail.

Do you enjoy the outdoors? Are you concerned about wildlife? Would you love to learn more about nature? Then this is just the class for you! Learn about wildlife, habitats, and the importance of making smart environmental choices. Each class is geared to enhance and strengthen a bond to nature and ecological awareness through a variety of subjects, creative art, or research projects. And we always end with a tasty, thematic treat that YOU make yourself!

Sponsored by Joppa Flats Education Center and Minox Germany.  Come to northeastern Massachusetts and southeastern New Hampshire for great winter birding and a chance to compete with other birders. The Superbowl of Birding is a unique competition to find the greatest number of species and to earn the greatest number of points based on the rarity of the birds recorded. Strategy and planning are essential in order to win this competition.

Hosted by the City of Salem Park, Recreation & Community Services Department

Time: Registration will open at 9 a.m.; 10 a.m. start time. Immediately following the completion of the race, there will be a free dash for children under the age of 12. Please bring snowshoes, as they will not be provided or available to use for the kids dash.

How do bees find a flower? How does a salmon make its way back to a river? How does a sea turtle find the beach on which it was born? Join us afterschool on Wednesday March 9 for this hands-on, investigative program and find out!

Do you enjoy the outdoors? Are you concerned about wildlife? Would you love to learn more about nature? Then this is just the class for you! Learn about wildlife, habitats, and the importance of making smart environmental choices. Each class is geared to enhance and strengthen a bond to nature and ecological awareness through a variety of subjects, creative art, or research projects. And we always end with a tasty, thematic treat that YOU make yourself!