Upcoming Events along the Kittatinny

Much to do along the Ridge and Corridor during the winter!  There are many hikes, festivals and educational opportunities coming up:

Jan. 19 ~ Woodpeckers of Jacobsburg
Jacobsburg Environmental Education Center, Wind Gap, PA
Jacobsburg Environmental Education Center has some of the best woodpecker habitat in the Lehigh Valley area. Join us as we search the park for local species of woodpeckers like the elusive Pileated Woodpecker and Yellow-bellied Sapsucker. For more information, visit the DCNR event listing.

Jan. 19 ~ Wild About Winter at Hawk Mountain Sanctuary
Hawk Mountain Sanctuary, Kempton, PA
Full day event includes free information about winter wildlife, a live raptor program, children's activity and winter walk. For more information, visit Hawk Mountain Sanctuary's event schedule.

Jan. 19 ~ Darlington Trail Hike with SATC: Tower Road to Lamb's Gap
Tower Road, State Game Lands parking area, Hamden, PA
Hike the eastern half of the Darlington Trail (east to west) starting at Tower Road through Bryson Hollow followed by an easy climb to the ridge of Blue Mountain and ending at Lamb's Gap PA Game Lands parking lot. Optional post-hike dinner at the Waterfront Bar & Grill in nearby Marysville. For more information or to register with hike leader, visit Susquehanna Appalachian Trail Club's Hiking and Activity Schedule.

Jan. 25 ~ Night Hike to Auburn Overlook with BMECC
Mountain Road, Tilden Township, PA
Meet at 7:00PM at the parking lot on Mountain Road in Tilden Township for SGL110. GPS coordinates for start are N 40.55202, W 076.054291. Bring flashlights, preferably with red or green bulbs. This is up the mountain from the base, about a 3 mile hike which is not family friendly. For more information or to contact hike leader, visit Blue Mountain Eagle Climbing Club's Hike & Activity Schedule.

Jan. 29 ~ Lecture Series - The Coal Mining Patch Towns of Stony Valley
Wildwood Lake Park, Harrisburg, PA
Explore the former coal mining towns of Stony Valley with Brandy M. Watts Martin in a program sponsored by the Friends of Wildwood. During the mid-1800s, the communities of Rattling Run in Dauphin County and Yellow Springs, Rausch Gap and Gold Mine in Lebanon County were thriving industrial towns. Explore their ruins with Brandy, who has been studying the area since, as a third grader, she learned that a hotel once existed in the briar-covered ruins of Cold Springs. For more information, visit the Wildwood Lake Park events schedule.

Feb 10. ~ A Decade of Research at the Lehigh Gap Wildlife Refuge
Lehigh Gap Nature Center, Slatington, PA
Dr. Diane Husic, Chair of Biological Sciences at Moravian College, is a member of the Lehigh Gap Nature Center Board of Directors and serves as our volunteer Director of Research. Here she will talk about the research that has been conducted at the center in the past ten years and give us some hints about what research may be undertaken in the future. For more information, visit the Lehigh Gap Nature Center events schedule.