I recently visited Amsterdam. When I decided I wanted to visit Amsterdam, there were a couple of things that were going through my mind. What I never want when visiting a new city or country is to feel like I’m a tourist. I mean of course I am in a sense always a tourist, but I don’t want to behave as if I’m one. That means that I don’t want … Read More
Barricades sit in the parking lot at the Veterans Memorial Park on March 29, 2020 in Window Rock, Arizona. The Navajo Parks and Recreation Department is keeping the park and other locations closed until 2021. (Photo: Daily Times file photo)
GALLUP — The Navajo Parks and Recreation
CONCONULLY – Scotch Creek Wildlife Area, encompassing 10,512 acres, provides a fall recreation area for deer hunting, hiking, biking and horseback riding.
Okanogan County Tourism Council recently highlighted the area east of Conconully. The area is mostly shrub steppe, with several springs and two lakes, but also includes some treed terrain.
The area was acquired by the state mostly for recovery of the Columbian sharp-tailed grouse, with a focus of
ELIZABETHTON — What are the recreation needs of the people of Elizabethton over the next decade?
That is the question the Elizabethton Parks and Recreation Department Master Plan 2020-2030 seeks to answer.
Parks and Recreation Director Mike Mains said community recreation is vital to the citizens and the 2020-2030 Master Plan is a specific guide of goals and objectives that will lead to the future success of recreational programming and
Berlin Recreation and Parks Department is offering the following programs.
Bring on the F.U.N. (Friends Understanding Needs: Bring on the F.U.N. is an open invitation to anyone with an intellectual disability and their friends to join youth leaders as they provide games, low-key challenges, and lots of FUN. This is a free program and runs on Tuesdays from 4-6 p.m. at Berlin Recreation Center.
Weekend workout for body, mind and
Outdoor Recreation’s inaugural competitive skeet shoot drew some of the state’s best marksmen.
More than 1,000 targets were thrown during the event Sept. 27 at the center’s facility completed in April 2019. This was its first National Skeet Shooting Association competition.
The competitors included three Alabama state skeet shooting champions, one state hall of famer and two of the five-person Redstone team that swept all team championships at this year’s
EMPIRE — Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore’s milestone celebration underwent some COVID-19-related revisions.
It became a national park on Oct. 21, 1970 — President Richard Nixon signed the law that set aside the area along Lake Michigan for preservation and public use — and initially celebrated its 50th year in existence with an event in January, said Park Ranger Merrith Baughman.
“It’s an opportunity to bring more people to the
Parks and Recreation has been one of the most popular shows on television since the day that it premiered, and for good reason. With its entertaining storylines and talented cast, the show keeps viewers laughing with its genuinely funny scenes and perfectly timed jokes.
The cast, such as well-known actors and actresses that include Amy Poehler, Nick Offerman, and Chris Pratt, really brings to life the characters that they portray,
Recreation is turning into “wreckreation,” as COVID-cabin-fevered hikers, campers and day-trippers venture out and damage public lands all over the state — including, it seems, sparking wildfires with careless or clueless behavior.
“We are experiencing people who don’t normally go outdoors, but it’s what they have, with nowhere else to go to get away from the chaos,” said Janet Pearce, spokesperson for the state Department of Natural Resources
INCLINE VILLAGE, Nev. — The Incline Village General Improvement District Board of Trustees will again talk about a possible rebate for recreation and beach fees for 2020-21 during their meeting on Wednesday, Sept. 30.
Because of COVID, IVGID temporarily closed their recreational venues and during the Aug. 12 meeting, the board asked staff to provide cost estimates for providing rebates for the closures.
Staff has given the board several options
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The Sacramento River Discovery Center was not evicted in July and the US Forest Service is working on a permit that will allow it to continue to educate people of all ages about how to preserve and protect private and public lands and appreciate the birds of the air and fish of the waters.
Anything involving LEGO is fun, right? Erm, as anyone who’s ever stepped on a LEGO brick will tell you, no, those damn plastic things can be a nightmare under the wrong circumstances.
National Park Service officials announced last week they had discovered the body of a Colorado man who had been missing in the Glen Canyon National Recreation Area for three days.
At approximately 3 p.m. on Sept. 22, 50-year-old Robert Sanders of Centennial, Colorado was discovered after three days of searching by foot, air and water. His death is still under investigation.
According to the National Park service, Sanders
VANCOUVER (NEWS 1130) — With busier trails and an emphasis on getting outdoors during the COVID-19 pandemic, a study out of UBC is showing what this is doing to the province’s wildlife with the help of motion-activated cameras.
Camera traps were set up around B.C.’s South Chilcotin Mountains Provincial Park to study how animals have been impacted by people visiting more often.
For the most part, UBC researchers found environmental
Entertainment spaces allowed to reopen Oct. 9 under a recent executive order from Gov. Gretchen Whitmer aren’t all rushing to do so.
Concert venues, in particular, met Friday’s announcement with some optimism about moving forward but say opening for shows at 20-percent capacity is far from a return to normalcy. Making a profit or at least breaking even by hosting a live performance would be impossible under the capacity limitations,
CADDO PARISH, La. (KTAL/KMSS) – Despite the pandemic, Caddo Parish Parks and Recreation has found a way to hold the award-winning ‘Bugs, Bata and Bones’ event and keep participants safe.
This year’s 10th annual ever-popular event will be held virtually using a series of videos that will premiere at 3 p.m. Friday, Oct. 2nd on the CPPR’s Facebook page, and run at the same time each Friday in
ROCHESTER, Minn. (KTTC) — As more people head outside because of the pandemic, parks have never been more valuable in the Med City.
However, should $2 million go towards them if it will cost homeowners more?
Katrina Pulham and Kelly Rae Kirkpatrick are both running for the Ward 4 City Council seat and use the parks in their neighborhoods. The potential increase of around $33 a year for homeowners has
Debbie Braun, president and CEO of the Aspen Chamber Resort Association, received the Governor’s Award for Outstanding Individual Contribution to Colorado Tourism last week.
Additionally, the ACRA team was given the Outstanding Community Tourism Initiative Award for achieving gold-level status from the International Mountain Bike Association for mountain bike routes throughout the valley.
The awards were announced at a governor’s tourism conference at Red Rocks Amphitheater with attendees logging in
As wildfires continue to rage across Oregon, outdoor recreation areas are beginning to temporarily shut down to the public.
Some land management agencies are instituting blanket closures to access and recreation, including the Mount Hood and Willamette national forests, while others are shutting down select parks that are either being evacuated or closed as a precaution.
Virtually all recreation areas in Oregon have also instituted fire restrictions to some extent,
(LDAF) – The Louisiana Department of Agriculture and Forestry’s (LDAF’s) Indian Creek Recreation Area is scheduled to reopen Thursday, September 17, 2020. The popular recreation area was closed August 26, 2020, in preparation for Hurricane Laura which ravaged parts of Louisiana including Indian Creek.
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FILE: Indian Creek
“We are eager to see our visitors again. Indian Creek Recreation Area sustained a significant amount of tree
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