Out in the parks
Read the clues people left on the land over thousands of years. Spend the day with a Forest Service archaeologist, see how the past gets pieced together, and earn your Jr. Archaeologist patch.About Jr. Ranger Days: Each Jr. Ranger Day highlights a specialist field within the U.S. Forest Service, with special guests, hands-on activities for […]
Join Jewel Cave National Monument for a day of cave related crafts and activities!
Meet the night shift. Join Wildlife Biologist Amy Hammesfahr at the Little Elk Creek Trail for a guided hike into the world of bats. You’ll learn what makes these mammals such important members of the Black Hills ecosystem, how they navigate and feed after dark, and the adaptations that let them thrive at night. Good […]
Wind Cave National Park protects two very different worlds: the open prairie above and the intricate cave below. On clear nights a third world blankets both, the brilliant night sky over the southern Black Hills.Join a park ranger who ties the majesty of the night sky to the story of the park, pointing out and […]
National Grasslands Visitor Center staff will be presenting interpretive programs every other Monday at Badlands National Park’s Cedar Pass Amphitheater throughout the summer.
Learn to read the landscape of western Nebraska. Park Ranger Christian Hedrick presents “Ethnobotany of the High Plains,” an evening program on the native plants of the High Plains and how people have identified, used, and ethically harvested some of the region’s greatest natural treasures.The program begins inside the Scotts Bluff National Monument Visitor Center […]
Dig into the deep past of the grasslands, back to when this was the floor of an ancient sea and home to creatures long gone. Spend the day with a Forest Service paleontologist and earn your Jr. Paleontologist patch.About Jr. Ranger Days: Each Jr. Ranger Day highlights a specialist field within the U.S. Forest Service, […]
Evening Program at the Elk Mountain Campground amphitheater, presented by Wind Cave National Park rangers. Topics from the park’s cultural and natural history vary nightly; the schedule of topics is posted at the campground restroom bulletin boards, and you can check availability and the schedule at the visitor center.Programs last 30 to 45 minutes, are […]
From the forest floor up, plants keep the Black Hills alive. This program looks at how plants make their own food through photosynthesis and cellular respiration, why they matter to human survival and the local economy, and how they form the foundation of the whole ecosystem.Stop by during either session, from 10 a.m. to noon […]
Evening Program at the Elk Mountain Campground amphitheater, presented by Wind Cave National Park rangers. Topics from the park’s cultural and natural history vary nightly; the schedule of topics is posted at the campground restroom bulletin boards, and you can check availability and the schedule at the visitor center.Programs last 30 to 45 minutes, are […]
Evening Program at the Elk Mountain Campground amphitheater, presented by Wind Cave National Park rangers. Topics from the park’s cultural and natural history vary nightly; the schedule of topics is posted at the campground restroom bulletin boards, and you can check availability and the schedule at the visitor center.Programs last 30 to 45 minutes, are […]
Evening Program at the Elk Mountain Campground amphitheater, presented by Wind Cave National Park rangers. Topics from the park’s cultural and natural history vary nightly; the schedule of topics is posted at the campground restroom bulletin boards, and you can check availability and the schedule at the visitor center.Programs last 30 to 45 minutes, are […]
