Park events and activities

Hillside Festival campers can book sites online on February 28 The 2018 camping season is nearly here and the Grand River Parks camping reservation system will be open for reservations online and over the phone on March 1.
The reservation system at www.grcacamping.ca  provides 24-hour online reservation service until mid-October, when the camping season closes.
As well, a call centre is available for those who want to reserve a campsite by phone. The call centre,...
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  The Grand River Conservation Authority (GRCA) will kick off its Canada 150 celebration on Earth Day — Saturday, April 22 — at the Guelph Rotary Forest, where a maple grove shaped like a maple leaf will be planted in honour of the 150th anniversary of Confederation.
The celebration will continue for 150 days, and will include various activities, promotion of GRCA programs and initiatives throughout the watershed, as well as a number of events at Grand...
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There are still spots available for March Break Adventure Day Camp at nature centres in Cambridge and Brantford.
There is already a waiting list for the camp at Laurel Creek in Waterloo and the Guelph Lake camp is nearly full.
Camp activities March 13 to 17 may include snow shoeing, snow sculptures, animal tracking, feeding the chickadees and campfires. Activities are adjusted to the weather, but participants go outside daily to explore the fields and forests that surround...
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Kids can spend part of their school break at Winter Adventure camp at Laurel Creek Nature Centre (Waterloo), Guelph Lake Nature Centre  and — for the first time —Shade’s Mills Nature Centre (Cambridge).
Register and find more information online at www.grandriver.eventbrite.ca . 
Winter Adventure camps are fun and educational. They teach 6 to 10 year olds about the natural environment by providing hands-on, environmental programs.
“My...
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Each September, young people learn about the outdoors from enthusiastic volunteers at Youth Outdoors Day, which takes place at Luther Marsh Wildlife Management Area, north of Fergus.
Now in its 15th year, this volunteer-run event received a 2016 Watershed Award from the Grand River Conservation Authority.
“We want to ignite that spark of passion that is inside kids and show them good environmental stewardship and what wildlife conservation is all about,” says...
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