Community Nature Programs
Teen WILD
Discovery Days
Trail Programs
Story Walk
100 Hours Outside
Teen WILD
Build your college resume, complete your volunteer hours, and make new friends while helping ACCPF facilitate outdoor fun & learning in the community! Teen WILD (Wilderness Inspired Leadership & Development), a year-long volunteer team, enables teens to complete 20+ community service hours at monthly scheduled events, develop leadership and mentoring skills, and have fun outside. Participants help ACCPF engage the community in conservation, environmental education & making healthy choices for the mind & body.
Applications open in the spring of each year and open to youth entering grades 9 through 12 in the fall. Participants are expected to complete at least three volunteer shifts during their year-long term. Choose the dates that are most convenient for your schedule!
Join the 77 teens who have donated over 780 hours of volunteer service through the Teen Play Team.
Discovery Days
A program of The Outdoor Connection, Discovery Days is an environmental education series with offerings for youth, families, and adults of all ages. Using the natural world around us, Discovery Days offers participants creative ways to explore, connect, and appreciate nature. Offered trailside, each Discovery Day provides light art opportunities, microscope science exploration, nature observation, and beautiful scenery to inspire the senses.
Trail Programs
Trail programs bring communities together and highlight our beautiful Wetlands and Newell Trails. Quarterly Coffee Morning, Educational and Social Hikes, Sunset Walks, and more are offered throughout the year. View our calendar for upcoming Trail Programs. Trail leaders wanted! Volunteer to lead hikes with ACCPF. Contact us at info@acparks.org for more information.
Story Walk
Read & Move in the Great Outdoors!
Exercise your body and your mind at the same time. Grab your family and take a walk around the perimeter of Shenandoah Park for an interactive literary experience. Its easy to follow along, get started by locating display one and continue in numerical order until you finish the story. Each display has two book pages and a fun movement activity for you to try. A different book is featured quarterly. The American Canyon Click StoryWalk® installation is at Shenandoah Park located at 100 Sonoma Creek Way, American Canyon.
100 Hours Outside
Research shows that being outside and experiencing nature can improve our mental health and increase our ability to focus. ACCPF’s 100 Hours Outside Challenge is a summer challenge designed to help us disconnect from our devices & reconnect with nature and the outdoors. During the course of the 45-day challenge, we encourage participants to explore new activities and develop healthy & sustainable outdoor recreation habits by tracking their daily outdoor activities.
Challenge yourself to get outside by making daily habit changes like eating lunch outside, taking a morning or nightly walk, reading a book outside, backyard gardening in addition to dozens of traditional summer outdoor fitness & recreation activities!
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