Nature & Outdoors

Are you home on mornings with young children? Come for a walk in the woods with Friends of the Middlesex Fells hike leader Terry Murray.

The Massachusetts DCR ParksPass provides unlimited day-use parking at state park facilities that charge a parking fee. This is a great value and a fun incentive to enjoy our expansive park system.

Bristol, Rhode Island's Audubon Environmental Education Center is open free to the public the first Saturday of every month. Join us for crafts, nature stories, animal discoveries, hikes and more.

The Observatory is open for public tours from February to November on most weekends from late morning to mid-afternoon as weather permits. Tours on other days and times are available by appointment.

Here is an opportunity for an adult and child to make jam together with Education Director Mary Beers. Take home four to six (8 oz.) jars of finished product. Children must be at least 6 years old to be in the kitchen.

Come explore nature. The professional nature educators from PUDDLESTOMPERS will use hands-on exploration to guide children in exploring the natural world (held at the Leventhal-Sidman JCC in Newton).

Got milk? We do! Bring the kids and join us to learn about our dairy operation. Visit with calves, explore the pastures, and meet the milkers in the dairy barn during milking – ordinarily closed to the public. It's simply moo-velous! Ages 6 and up.

Join the Lowell Parks and Conservation Trust for exciting white water rafting through class III and IV rapids and an 1850's lock chamber and have a great time.

Peaceful 15 minute paddleboat cruise around the Boston Garden lagoon. The only boats of their kind in the world, inspired by the opera Lohengrin.

Families enjoy 45 acres of trails including woodlands, pond, bog, brook and wildflower meadow with 1,600 native plant species at New England Wild Flower Society's Garden in the Woods, one of the country's premier garden destinations.