Poricy Park Conservancy announces their FREE event, "We Love Poricy Park Day" on Saturday, June 6th, 1:00pm-4:00pm. Poricy Park is located at 345 Oak Hill Road, Middletown, NJ.
Fun for the entire family, this FREE event includes the following activities:
- Live Reptile Show (2pm-3pm) - you will be fascinated by mammals, lizards, snakes, frogs, turtles and insects, presented by Rizzo's Wildlife.
- Self-Guided Scavenger Nature Hunt - park-wide, pick up your map guide in the Nature Center; return your completed map for a “token” prize.
- Explore Poricy Park with a trained guide; sign up on site for hikes departing Nature Center.
- Pond Activity - Learn about the creatures of the Murray Pond Ecosystem; observe tadpoles and dragon flies and chat with knowledgeable volunteers about pond life and your observations.
- Nature Arts & Crafts activity table
- Look and Learn all about worms
- GeoCaching - download app on your smart phone or bring your personal handheld GPS unit and pick up geocache wavepoints from our activity table and enjoy a self-guided excursion.
- PPC Guided Geocache excursion - sign up at activity table for an instructor-led geocache excursion using your own device or a PPC GPS unit.
- Wander down to the Murray Homestead and enjoy activities/demonstrations celebrating Joseph Murray including interpretive tours of the Murray farmhouse & Barn, colonial children's games, flax processing demonstrations, butter churning, wood working demo, Colonial Garden tours and tips, colonial cooking exhibition, colonial photo ops, bring a camera!
- Nature Center/Gift Shop Open - Learn all about the benefits of membership and the ongoing impact community support has on the future of the Poricy Park Conservancy.
Activities and schedule subject to change.