If you want to see the most birds on your spring bird walks, it’s crucial to learn some of their songs.  After discussing the reasons why birds sing and call, discover how to recognize many of the most common songs using easy memory devices. Then we will walk the trails listening for and identifying all the birds we hear. Bring binoculars or borrow ours.

• Date: Tuesday, May 17
• Time: 3:30 p.m. – 5 p.m.
• Location: Great Swamp Outdoor Education Center, 247 Southern Boulevard, Chatham Township, NJ 07928.
• Cost: $10 per person.
• Contact: Preregistration is required. For more information, call 973-635-6629.

Register here.

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Morris County Park Commission
300 Mendham Road
Morris Township, NJ 07960
P: 973.326.7600

Be it frozen frogs, busy beavers or hunting herons, the creatures of the Great Swamp have some downright weird adaptations. Join us as we explore the wild ways that the wetland organisms have adapted to their environments with a guided walk and activities.

• Date: Monday, May 16
• Time: 3:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.
• Location: Great Swamp Outdoor Education Center, 247 Southern Boulevard, Chatham Township, NJ 07928.
• Cost: $5 per person.
• Contact: Preregistration is required. For more information, call 973-635-6629.

Register here.

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Bring your mom out for a guided stroll led by a naturalist and enjoy the splendor of the natural world on her special day with @GreatSwampNJ . !

Register here.

• Date: Sunday, May 8
• Time: 2 p.m. – 3 p.m.
• Location: Great Swamp Outdoor Education Center, 247 Southern Boulevard, Chatham Township, NJ 07928.
• Cost: FREE.
• Contact: Preregistration is required. For more information, call 973-635-6629.

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Morris County Park Commission
300 Mendham Road
Morris Township, NJ 07960
P: 973.326.7600

The spring peepers and wood frogs are calling from the forest pools. Learn all about these two frogs while listening to their chorus and spy on them from the trails on a naturalist-led walk. Rain or shine with the @GreatSwampNJ .

• Date: Monday, April 11
• Time: 10:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
• Location: Great Swamp Outdoor Education Center, 247 Southern Boulevard, Chatham Township, 07928.
• Cost: $5 per person, ages 3 and up.
• Contact: Preregistration is required. 

Register here.

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It’s Stinky! Did you know it is also amazing??!! It will be sunny, clear and in the 60s tomorrow! Come on out to the @GreatSwampNJ and learn the beautify of this misunderstood plant’s secrets!

Come to the Skunk Cabbage Safari!

Skunk Cabbage may be stinky, but it sure is amazing!  Did you know that it makes its own heat to melt snow or that it’s the first flower of the spring?  Discover all of the plant’s secrets as you hunt for it emerging along the trails, guided by a naturalist.  You’ll never look at skunk cabbage the same way again! 

Register here.

• Date: Monday, March 21
• Time: 3:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.
• Location: Great Swamp Outdoor Education Center, 247 Southern Boulevard, Chatham Township, 07928.
• Cost: $5 per person.
• Contact: Preregistration is required. For more info, call 973.635.6629.

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Apple Barrel Trio Planters

Ages 5 & up.

Walk out into the darkening trails of the Great Swamp to learn about and look for owls.  We’ll discover which owls call our state home and why winter is a good time to try to see them.  Try making their calls and touch owl artifacts too!

Register here.

• Date: Wednesday, January 5
• Time: 3:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.
• Location: Great Swamp Outdoor Education Center, 247 Southern Boulevard, Chatham Township, 07928.
• Cost: $6 per person.
• Contact: Preregistration is required. For more info, call 973-635-6629.

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Friday, January7: Owls, Friday, February 4: Foxes, Friday, March 18: Frogs

Ages 6 – 10.

After school is a great time to take a nature walk and discover new facts about New Jersey’s wildlife.  Join a naturalist to learn about a new animal every month!

Register here.

• Date: Friday, January 7—Friday, March 18
• Time: 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm
• Location: Great Swamp Outdoor Education Center, 247 Southern Boulevard, Chatham Township, 07928.
• Cost: $6 per child.
• Contact: Preregistration is required. For more info, call 973-635-6629.

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Saturdays & Sundays: January 15, 16, 22, 23, 29, and 30, February 5, 6, 12, 13, 19, 20, 26, and 27, March 5, 6, and 12

Ages 5 & up.

Learn how to identify and tap maple trees, collect sap, and make real maple syrup over a wood-fired evaporator.  This year, the program will be held entirely outdoors, so dress for the weather.  Spiles and syrup will be available for purchase, while supplies last.

Register here.

• Date: Saturday, January 15—Saturday, March 12
• Time: 1 p.m. or 2:30 p.m.
• Location: Great Swamp Outdoor Education Center, 247 Southern Boulevard, Chatham Township, 07928.
• Cost: $5 per person.
• Contact: Preregistration is required. For more info, call 973-635-6629

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