Think you have what it takes to make the best boat that floats? Come by the nature center and learn about what makes things float in water, and then create your own boat using materials found around the park!
Bring your own notebook, use one provided, or make one at the nature center and get started on your very own herbarium journal! Join in on collecting and identifying plants while learning how to preserve them and keep them in your notebooks to use for identifying the plants around you.
Join us for a weekend of whitewater fun at this semi-annual event where the Ball Mountain Dam gate is opened, and water is released into the West River, providing excellent whitewater paddling. State park staff will run a shuttle (fee) to the top of the West River where paddlers start their journey. If you're not into whitewater paddling, it's still very fun to watch. Check out the Jamaica State Park web page for more information.
Join us for a weekend of whitewater fun at this semi-annual event where the Ball Mountain Dam gate is opened, and water is released into the West River, providing excellent whitewater paddling. *State park staff will run a shuttle (fee) to the top of the West River where paddlers start their journey. If you're not into whitewater paddling, it's still very fun to watch. Check out the Jamaica State Park web page for more information.
*Edit: The shuttle will not be running this year (2023) due to trail closures.
Where birds migrate to when they're not nesting at Little River & how they get there *featuring exhibits & 42, Audubon Bird Dolls* Location: Nature Center, Duration: 1 - 1.5hrs
Can you catch up to 300+ million years of evolution? Check out some local dragonflies & damselflies; bring insect nets if you've got them. Location: A-Side Beach; Duration: 1hr, option to extend;
Make & paint plaster animal tracks as you meet your furbearing friends of Little River via exhibits, puppetry & taxidermy. Nature Center, 1hr.
Guided heritage & natural history tour through some of Little River Settlement's lost 19th-Century ruins. Meets at History Hike Parking Lot. Duration: Up to 2.5hrs r/t. *NO CROCS OR FLIP-FLOPS ALLOWED*
The story of how Franklin Delano Roosevelt's "Tree Army” built the biggest earthen flood control dam east of the Mississippi River. See how the Civilian Conservation Corps' completed their largest public works project in America in just 3 years, and how it has worked exactly as designed for 85 years. Guided historical walk with amazing views. Meets at Top of Dam; 1hr
