Park events

Come learn about bats through activities and games at Jamaica State Park.

Program is included with Camping registration or $5 state park entry fee.

All ages welcome, wheelchair accessible. A rain or shine event.

Visit the Button Bay State Park Contact Station to receive your first clue in a scavenger hunt that will take you all over the Park as you learn about the park staff, farmers, Adirondackers, and many more who've helped make Button Bay the beautiful state park it is today!

Make charcoal paint and learn about other natural paints!

Program is included with Camping registration or $5 state park entry fee.

All ages welcome, wheelchair accessible. A rain or shine event.

With now fifteen published books, Geza is a prolific author of five thrillers, three memoirs, five poetry collections, one short story collection and one children’s picture story book. He has a sixteenth book, another thriller, coming out in August, and has just finished a murder mystery based in Vermont that will be published later this year. His poems, short stories and essays have appeared in various journals throughout the USA and Canada.

This family-friendly concert will feature Hard Scrabble, a Vermont-based, acoustic band that plays a blend of bluegrass, blues, and acoustic covers. 

The following program has been cancelled due to a staff meeting. If interested, visit the Nature Center during its operating hours this week (Thursday 8/24 to Sunday 8/27, 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.) while another program is not occuring and ask the Nature Center staff for the Benedict Arnold program.

In 1776, “Commodore” Benedict Arnold lost Lake Champlain and saved the American Revolution—come learn how as we trace the short life of the first American Navy. One half-hour, meets at the Nature Center.

Inundated by a summer of rain, campsites throughout the park have transformed into temporary wetlands. Tour our worst-hit sites as we discover which species have taken advantage of these new ecosystems! 45 minutes, meets at the Loop Two Bathhouse.

Bring your chair and blanket and musical talents to the pavilion and join Bobby for a musical Monday evening in the park. While you might hear anything from originals to folk classics to today's most popular hits, a common thread strings the set together: welcome smiles, a steady groove and unbridled energy that invites you to let the rhythm move you.

Use your body to imitate lichen, moss, shrubs, and trees in this dancing activity! Hopefully you don't die in a disturbance...

Learn about cicadas, spiders, snakes, beavers, salamanders, and groups of animals in a nature song sing-along.