Open Space Events
FREE Neighborhood Open Space: Community Concert (Father's Day Weekend) with Side Montero
Jun 17, 2023 from 06:00 PM to 08:30 PM
Join us for a completely free, family-friendly event highlighting great musical artists and performers. Bring a chair or blanket, picnic dinner, and enjoy free entertainment, paletas, face painting, bosque traveling exhibit truck, rock climbing wall, hands-on nature activities, and incredible views of your public lands under the light of the setting sun.
Family Nature Club: Powerful Pollinators
Jun 24, 2023 from 09:00 AM to 11:00 AM
Join an Open Space education park ranger for a family-friendly hike and engage in hands-on learning together as a family, listen to natural history fun facts, enjoy storytelling, and seek out wildlife.
Guided Tour: Candelaria Nature Preserve Open Space
Jun 30, 2023 from 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Join staff and volunteer experts and explore various Open Space properties and experience all that your public lands have to offer.
Guided Tour: Candelaria Nature Preserve Open Space
Jul 28, 2023 from 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Join staff and volunteer experts and explore various Open Space properties and experience all that your public lands have to offer.
Family Nature Club: In a Flash (nature photography for all ages)
Jul 29, 2023 from 09:00 AM to 11:00 AM
Join an Open Space education park ranger for a family-friendly hike and engage in hands-on learning together as a family, listen to natural history fun facts, enjoy storytelling, and seek out wildlife.
FREE Neighborhood Open Space: Community Concert with JD Nash and the Rash of Cash
Jul 29, 2023 from 06:00 PM to 08:30 PM
Join us for a completely free, family-friendly event highlighting great musical artists and performers. Bring a chair or blanket, picnic dinner, and enjoy free entertainment, paletas, face painting, bosque traveling exhibit truck, rock climbing wall, hands-on nature activities, and incredible views of your public lands under the light of the setting sun.
Guided Tour: Candelaria Nature Preserve Open Space
Aug 25, 2023 from 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Join staff and volunteer experts and explore various Open Space properties and experience all that your public lands have to offer.
FREE Neighborhood Open Space: Community Concert with Jimmy Climbs
Aug 26, 2023 from 06:00 PM to 08:30 PM
Join us for a completely free, family-friendly event highlighting great musical artists and performers. Bring a chair or blanket, picnic dinner, and enjoy free entertainment, paletas, face painting, bosque traveling exhibit truck, rock climbing wall, hands-on nature activities, and incredible views of your public lands under the light of the setting sun.
Neighborhood Nature Festival & Block Party
Sep 23, 2023 from 10:00 AM to 01:00 PM
Join us for a completely free, family-friendly, park pop-up event to celebrate and enjoy nature right in our neighborhoods. Face painter, paletas, live music, bilingual nature storytelling, nature-themed carnivale performers, bosque ecosystem exhibit truck, hands-on activities, games, show-n-tell with urban wild birds, Esperanza bike repair clinic (bring your bike), on-site language interpreters, home and community resource, and more.
Guided Tour: Candelaria Nature Preserve Open Space
Sep 29, 2023 from 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Join staff and volunteer experts and explore various Open Space properties and experience all that your public lands have to offer.
Outdoor Field School: Performing Pedology (ages 11-14)
Sep 30, 2023 from 09:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Middle school-aged youth join two Open Space education park rangers for in-depth learning about the natural world around them through fun, hands-on science outdoors using real scientific field equipment. Classes take place at a variety of Open Space public lands.
Neighborhood Nature Festival & Block Party
Oct 14, 2023 from 10:00 AM to 01:00 PM
Join us for a completely free, family-friendly, park pop-up event to celebrate and enjoy nature right in our neighborhoods. Face painter, paletas, live music, bilingual nature storytelling, nature-themed carnivale performers, bosque ecosystem exhibit truck, hands-on activities, games, show-n-tell with urban wild birds, Esperanza bike repair clinic (bring your bike), on-site language interpreters, home and community resource, and more.
Guided Tour: Candelaria Nature Preserve Open Space
Oct 27, 2023 from 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Join staff and volunteer experts and explore various Open Space properties and experience all that your public lands have to offer.
Outdoor Field School: Uncovering Archeology (ages 11-14)
Nov 04, 2023 from 09:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Middle school-aged youth join two Open Space education park rangers for in-depth learning about the natural world around them through fun, hands-on science outdoors using real scientific field equipment. Classes take place at a variety of Open Space public lands.
Guided Tour: Candelaria Nature Preserve Open Space
Nov 24, 2023 from 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Join staff and volunteer experts and explore various Open Space properties and experience all that your public lands have to offer.