What’s Happening in Georgia State Parks!
Posted: April 15, 2024
Georgia’s State Parks and Historic Sites “Take Flight” in 2024
This year’s programming theme is all about birds, bats and pollinators. Rangers invite you to join evening bat walks, backyard bird counts, pollinator habitat restoration projects, butterfly hikes and more “Take Flight” programs. You’ll learn the importance of pollination for our food, migration patterns, how to identify birds and much more. Regular programs like Junior Ranger camps, archery classes, and guided kayak tours are also scheduled throughout the year. Check the Events tab on GaStateParks.org.
Below is a sample of “Take Flight” Programs in 2024
- Extinction is Forever: Red-cockaded Woodpeckers – Sundays in Spring, Jarrell Plantation Historic Site, Juliette
- Bird Bingo – March 10, F.D. Roosevelt State Park, Pine Mountain
- Butterfly Craft – March 11, Chattahoochee Bend State Park, Newnan
- Take Flight Hike – First Saturdays, April – October, New Echota Cherokee Capital, Calhoun
- Bats Along the Etowah River – April 17, Etowah Mounds Historic Site, Cartersville
- World Migration Bird Day Hike – May 13, Stephen C. Foster State Park, Okefenokee Swamp
- World Bee Day – May 20, Kolomoki Mounds Historic Site, Blakely
- Dragonflies Along the Etowah – June 10, Etowah Mounds Historic Site, Cartersville
- Build a Bee Hotel – June 17, Magnolia Springs State Park, Millen
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