Trails at Taft Reserve are OPEN to HORSES. Trails at Infirmary Mound Park and Lobdell Reserve are CLOSED to HORSES due to conditions unsuitable for equine traffic. **TJE Trail east of Granville between the cemetery and Rotary Bridge/Raccoon Valley Park due to bank slip; **There will be periodic closures April 22-26, dawn to dusk, on the TJ Evans Bike Trail from Concord Rd (Johnstown) to the cemetery area in Granville east of Main St for hazardous tree removal. Bike Trails: TJ Evans Trail between Newark and Granville: The TJ Evans bike trail will be CLOSED at the new Thornwood Crossing bridge area, Mon-Fri, 7a-5p, until further notice. There will be other, temporary closures intermittently over the following few months, during working hours (7A-5P; M-F). See Current Trail Status and Notices page under Parks and Trails for more details and full trail status update. To report trees down and other issues, call 740.587.2535, or email us at info@LickingParkDistrict.com To reach the Trail Hotline, available 24/7, call 740.349.4823
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Virtual Night Tree Storytime and Crafts at Home
December 18, 2020 @ 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
Please join us for this family friendly activity. This year we are doing it a little differently. Participants will pick up a kit filled with wildlife friendly ornament making supplies on December 17th at Infirmary Mound Park. On Friday they will be emailed a link to a prerecorded reading of the wonderful children’s book the Night Tree by Eve Bunting. The story features a family whose annual tradition is traveling to their chosen tree in the woods to decorate it for the animals. The program kit will include the materials needed to start your own tradition of decorating your own wildlife tree, with a few materials provided by the participant (see below). There will be additional ornament making demonstrations on Youtube. The videos will be available all weekend, so participants can choose when they want to listen to the story, create their ornaments, enjoy their hot chocolate, and venture out to decorate their tree! If you do not have a tree in your yard, you can come to Infirmary Mound park and decorate our wildlife trees, one of the small spruce trees near Shelter 3!
Households will need to provide:
A needle large enough to thread a thicker string, but small enough to thread popcorn
A type of natural peanut butter or sunbutter. Please make sure the ingredients are only peanuts if using peanut butter!
Scissors, spoons, knives for cutting oranges and apples, bowls