Join us for a very special spooky Open Lands Day! The Rogue River Preserve includes a floodplain forest, oak woodlands with meadows, and is only open to the public for special events. You are welcome to explore the trails at your own pace, attend one of our guided hikes, bring a picnic lunch to enjoy, or do all three. We’re offering three hikes themed around our more cryptic organisms. Registration is required, costumes are encouraged. Please only sign up for one themed hike.
Self-guided: 10:00 – 3:00, Explore the Preserve at your own pace
Lichen Hike: 10:30 – 12:00. Discover the cryptic lichens that live on trees, rocks, and soil with lichenologist Steve Sheehy. Learn how to identify some of the 57 liches described so far on the Preserve.
Cryptozoology Hike ‘Sassy with Sasquatch’: 12:00 – 1:00. Bigfoot, Yeti, Sasquatch, let’s go for a walk to the Fairy Forest and discuss the elusive Pacific Northwest creature. Guided by SOLC staff member Rebekah.
Cryptozoology Hike ‘Ness Around and Find Out’: 1:30 – 2:30. Learn about the monster of Loch Ness while we walk around the vernal pool-mounded prairies; perhaps we’ll spot a distant cousin. Guided by SOLC staff member Rebekah.
