Slate Painting at Bomoseen State Park
Learn about one of the most iconic rocks of the region while creating a masterpiece that you'll be able to take home!
Location: Bomoseen day use beach
Learn about one of the most iconic rocks of the region while creating a masterpiece that you'll be able to take home!
Location: Bomoseen day use beach
Explore the ruins and learn about the history of the abandoned 19th century slate mining town of west Castleton on this 0.75 mile guided hike.
Location: Meet at the Bomoseen contact station at 1pm
*Please bring water and proper walking shoes
How many nature items on the list can you find? Once completed you'll win a small prize
Location: Bomoseen day use beach
Learn about the majestic birds of prey that inhabit Bomoseen state park!
Location: Bomoseen day use area
Explore the time honored tradition of harvesting sap to create delicious maple syrup. Stop by to learn and possibly enjoy some of this tasty Vermont sweet treat!
Location: Bomoseen day use beach
Meet at the walking trail to encounter and experience each of the major woodland wetland ecosystems by taking a guided tour starting from the walking trail (Campground A & B roads intersection) and ends at the walkway of 2nd largest peat bog in Vermont. Experience the beauty of the cotton-tail grass, pitcher plants, laurels, heaths, sphagnum fractals, to the serenade of the white-throated sparrow. Learn how Carmi is shaped by these wetlands as its primary source before it winds its way through the lake, onto pike river, emptying back into Bitawbakw (Lake Champlain).
Calling all bug-admirers! Meet us at the Nature Center at 2pm. Each person will be given a hand lens to use as we look for cool bugs as a group!
Event will be postponed if it rains.
Meet us at the Nature Center at 10:30am for a guided hike on our Nature Trail. From the Nature Center through the trail and back again is less than one mile.
Event will be postponed if it rains.
Stop by the Nature Center between 10am-4pm to grab your scavenger hunt supplies! Everyone who completes the scavenger hunt will receive a free picture book.