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National Park Week is April 20-28 and Bighorn Canyon National Recreation Area is celebrating with a variety of events. Bighorn Canyon will kick the week off by participating in the Lovell Community …
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National Park Week is April 20-28 and Bighorn Canyon National Recreation Area is celebrating with a variety of events. Bighorn Canyon will kick the week off by participating in the Lovell Community Day of Service. There are several service projects volunteers can join April 19-20. The Bighorn Canyon projects, landscaping at the Cal S. Taggart Visitor Center and a clean-up project at Horseshoe Bend, begin at 9 a.m. on April 20. For more information or to look at other community projects, volunteers can visit the website justserve.org.
The WNPA bookstore is also sharing in the fun. Just arrived, “You Are Here,” features 50 previously unpublished poems from the nation’s most accomplished nature poets.
Traci Brimhall, Bighorn Canyon Artist in Residence 2023, is one of the featured poets. Her poem, “Mouth of the Canyon”brings to life the environmental characters we find when we are hiking in the park. This book, the pocket trail journals she wrote pieces of the poem in, and other new Artist in Residence items are on display at the Visitor Center.
During National Park Week, items in the bookstore will be 30% off (except for AIR consignment items.)
The week will end on April 28, with Junior Ranger Day scavenger hunts. The park will be hosting a virtual scavenger hunt on the park Facebook page and an in person scavenger hunt. The virtual scavenger hunt will kick off at 9 a.m. There will be a question featured on Facebook on the top of every hour. The last question will be at 3 p.m. All questions need to be answered by 4 p.m. Participants who answer all the questions will have their names entered for a Junior Ranger gift bag.
The in person scavenger hunt will begin at the Visitor Center at 9:30 a.m. Participants will need to pick up the scavenger hunt sheet and directions. There are four stations throughout the park that will be open from 10 a.m.-2 p.m.
Participants must go to each station to answer a question and have their sheet stamped. Once participants have been to each site, they will return to the Visitor Center.
