Load your little one in a backpack and join a PVAS naturalist on a hike at Cool Spring Preserve. This is a great way to explore nature with your child, get exercise and meet other parents. This hike is designed for adults with young children. Most trails are not stroller accessible, so you’ll need a backpack or carrier for younger...
Load your little one in a backpack and join a PVAS naturalist on a hike at Cool Spring Preserve. This is a great way to explore nature with your child, get exercise and meet other parents. This hike is designed for adults with young children. Most trails are not stroller accessible, so you’ll need a backpack or carrier for younger...
Join the PVAS teaching staff for a winter solstice celebration at Cool Spring Preserve! We’ll set out on a night hike around the preserve listening for owls and looking for signs of other creatures of the night. Then, we’ll sip hot chocolate and roast marshmallows by a cozy campfire while listening to campfire stories. We’ll provide the hot chocolate, marshmallows...
Check out the PVAS Summer Concert Series at Cool Spring Preserve! All performances are free of charge and open to all, thanks to the musicians who generously volunteer their time and talent. You’re invited to bring a picnic dinner (BYOB welcome), and are encouraged to take a hike around the preserve before or after the music. Performances are held outside...
Check out the PVAS Summer Concert Series at Cool Spring Preserve! All performances are free of charge and open to all, thanks to the musicians who generously volunteer their time and talent. You’re invited to bring a picnic dinner (BYOB welcome), and are encouraged to take a hike around the preserve before or after the music. Performances are held outside...
Check out the PVAS Summer Concert Series at Cool Spring Preserve! All performances are free of charge and open to all, thanks to the musicians who generously volunteer their time and talent. You’re invited to bring a picnic dinner (BYOB welcome), and are encouraged to take a hike around the preserve before or after the music. Performances are held outside...
Check out the 2022 PVAS Summer Concert Series at Cool Spring Preserve! The Dilettantes—native Mountaineers, Trudy and Jeff Roth—sing songs from here and there, then and now, and originals. All performances are free of charge and open to all, thanks to the musicians who generously volunteer their time and talent. You’re invited to bring a picnic dinner (BYOB welcome), and...
PVAS Trip Leader: Beth Poole This event is free and open to the public, however, in order to follow the best practice local, state and national guidelines, registration is required and limited to 9 participants. Please register below and note the following guidelines: Registration is required and limited to 9 participants (if you can no longer attend, please notify adultprograms@potomacaudubon.org so that others may attend)...
Wil Hershberger – the mind behind songsofinsects.com – leads a Singing Insect Walk for PVAS each year. This year’s walk was held on July 31st at Cool Spring Preserve. Because attendance was more limited than usual due to COVID-19, and because Wil has such a way with words, we’d like to share his post-walk write-up: “We walked the northern portion...
This event has been cancelled in an effort to stop the spread of Covid-19. One of the telltale sounds of early spring is the high-pitched peeping chorus of Spring Peepers, 1.5 inch long frogs that make a big sound. Join us for an evening guided hike at Cool Spring Preserve as we learn about these wondrous amphibians and listen for...
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