Upcoming Events 

TEDDY BEAR HIKE Riverview Park Saturday, June 21, 2008 11 am – 12 noon Free Bring your favorite stuffed friend down to the Rivanna Trail for a fun-filled summer hike. Don’t forget your sun hat and maybe some sunglasses. Discover how our city forests provide food for birds and other wildlife. For KIDS of all ages and their families or caregivers. Event held rain or shine! For more information, please contact Diana Foster at dfoster@newventure.com.

NATIONAL TRAILS DAY 2008 - Saturday, June 7th, 8:30am to 2:00 pm, Rain or Shine
Get dirty, get wet, and meet dozens of wonderful folks who share your love of the Rivanna Trail with its incredible forests and streams. Imagine hiking all the way from Meadow Creek in Locust Grove up to the new Belvedere neighborhood. Views of the Rivanna River, open meadows, a gorgeous high canopy oak-beech forest, connections to new neighborhoods. We are really excited about this year’s NTD push upriver. Help in the big bold push to build new trails north and upriver of our existing trail network.

Gathering place: Charlottesville Catholic School on Rio Road
Starting time: 8:30 AM

Activities for all ages, all skill levels
Trail building, stream clean-up, special construction projects

Participation is FREE but please PRE-REGISTER by Email to dfoster@newventure.com.
(This helps us to plan both projects and food)

Attire: Wear long pants. Bring work gloves and drinking water; boots or old shoes if you want to work in or near a stream.
Bring the following tools if you have them: hand tools such as hand clippers, pruning loppers, pruning saw, garden rake, shovel, hoe, mattock, and pick.

Volunteer Opportunities: (Email to say how you wish to help)
• Supervise a work crew (experience OR enthusiasm required)
• Help coordinate or distribute lunch
• Help set up before the event (volunteer headquarters information table; come early)
• Manage RTF tool inventory before and after event
• Take digital photos
• Provide clean-up after lunch

RTF is thrilled to welcome this year’s National Trails Day partners:
• Albemarle County
• Charlottesville Area Mountain Bike Club
• Charlottesville Running Company
• City of Charlottesville
• Blue Ridge Mountain Sports
• Outdoor Adventure Social Club
• Rivanna Conservation Society

GUIDED HIKES ON THE RIVANNA TRAIL – The following is an invitation from our friends, the Rivanna Master Naturalists. What a great way to visit sections of the Rivanna Trail that you have not seen yet or to plan a “section hike” of the whole loop this spring!

Join Rivanna Master Naturalist volunteer guides on 90 minute weekend hikes along the Rivanna Trail. Enjoy spring beauty in the Piedmont, learn more about our natural resources, and improve your health too! The nine week series includes 18 different hikes, held on Saturdays at 1 PM and Sundays at 2 PM. No registration required and the hikes are FREE. For more information call 970-3585 or email parkvolunteers@charlottesville.org

Locations are listed below, full descriptions of each hike can be found at
www.vmn-rivanna.org

Saturdays at 1PM

May 17 Greenbrier Elementary to CHS
(meet at Greenbrier Elementary School)

May 24 Fontaine Research Park to Ivy Road
(meet at Health South lot at 400 Ray Hunt Drive)

May 31 Azalea Park to Bent Creek Bridge/5th Street
(meet at Azalea Park, off Old Lynchburg Rd. near I-64)

June 7 Quarry Park to Jordan Park
(meet at Quarry, located off Monticello Ave. on Quarry Rd.)

Sunday at 2PM

May 18 Greenbrier Elementary to Meadowcreek Park
(meet at Greenbrier Elementary School)

May 25 Department of Forestry trails in Fontaine Research Park
(meet at Health South parking lot at 400 Ray Hunt Drive)

June 1 Jordan Park to Bent Creek Bridge/5th Street
(meet at Jordan Park, located at the end of 6th Street SE)

June 8 Quarry Park to Woolen Mills
(meet at Quarry, located off Monticello Ave. on Quarry Rd.)