MCPS Spring 2021 Parks and Programs Guide
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SPRING 2021 REGISTRATION BEGINS FEbrUARY 10! WWW.MONMOUTHCOUNTYPARKS.COM DISCOVER YOUR PARKS THIS SPRING Spring Craft Show Creative Arts & Saturday, April 17, 9:00 AM-2:00 PM Music Festival Fort Monmouth Recreation Center, Tinton Falls Saturday, May 1, Find the perfect hand-crafted gift for Mother’s 10:00 AM-4:00 PM Day, Father’s Day, graduations and more as you Thompson Park, browse a variety of local craft vendors for the Lincroft special person in your life. Spend a day at Thompson Park Earth Day Fun in the Parks perusing the artists Saturday, April 18 of our juried arts Celebrate our planet with a variety of free festival. Fine drop-in nature walks and activities happening artists from all throughout your Monmouth County parks. For mediums will be on full details, see page ??. display including pottery, jewelry, photography and painting, just to name a few. Plus, enjoy live music and food vendors. For more information, see the centerfold ad. Walnford Day Sunday, May 16, 11:00 AM-5:00 PM Historic Walnford, Upper Freehold Listen to the rumble of Waln's Mill as corn is ground into meal, take a tour of the Waln family home, and enjoy the site from a horse-drawn wagon as we celebrate life as it once was. With a multitude of historic demonstrations held throughout the day, there will be something for everyone to enjoy! TABLE OF CONTENTS Park System Spotlight 2-3 Kids & Teens 30-44 Arts & Crafts . .30-33 Calendar of Events 4-5 Culinary Arts . 33-34. Education & Enrichment . .35-37 Historic Happenings 6-8 Outdoor Adventures . .37-38 Families 9-17 Performing Arts . 39-40. Arts & Crafts . .10 Sports & Fitness . 41-44. Family Fun . 11. Adults 46-96 Horticulture . .11-12 Active Adults 55+ . .46-47 Nature . 12-15. Arts & Crafts . 47-57. Outdoor Adventures . .17 Canine Classes . 58. Parent & Child 18-29 Culinary Arts . 59-62. Arts & Crafts . .19 Education & Enrichment . .62-64 Culinary Arts . .20 Health & Wellness . 64-68. Education & Enrichment . .20-21 Horticulture . .69-74 Horticulture . .21 Nature . 75-80. Nature . 21-22. Outdoor Adventures . .80-85 Outdoor Adventures . .22-23 Performing Arts . 85-86. Play Groups . 23-25. Sports & Fitness . 87-95. Sports & Fitness . 26-28. Equestrian 97 Golf 98-103 Therapeutic Recreation 104 Registration Information 106-107 Park Partners 108 To register for programs starting February 10, call 732-842-4000, ext. 1, Monday-Friday from COVID-19 PRECAUTIONS 8:00 AM-4:30 PM. FOR PROGRAM PARTICIPANTS For general information about your Monmouth County The Park System is working hard to keep visitors and parks, call 732-842-4000, ext. 4312. program participants safe. Please note the following guidelines are in place during the pandemic as of the printing of this Guide. Icon Key • Stay home if you are ill . • Maintain at least six feet from other participants and staff . New Program Free Program • Face coverings are required when social distancing can’t be maintained, when arriving and departing from a program, and while in Find us on Social Media: restrooms and/or common areas of the building . • Face coverings are not required when eating/ drinking or during socially distanced or strenuous activities . REGIST RATION BEGINS AT 8:00 AM ON WEDNESDAY, FEBA RU RY 10. SEE PAGE 106 FOR F ULL DETAILS. 1 PARK SYSTEM SPOTLIGHT PARK Freneau Woods Park Did You Know? Interesting things about the Monmouth County Park System you may not have known about. Over 140 Miles of Trails! Dock Your Boat In fact, throughout 22 of our park areas you will find Monmouth Cove Marina in Port Monmouth offers a a total of 141 miles of trails . Trails are rated as easy, multi-service facility and gets rave reviews from local moderate, challenging, paved, fitness or nature, boaters . With 154 wet slips, electric and water at slips, assuring you can easily find a trail that suits the needs floating docks, transient dockage, 58-rack storage, of you and your family . For a peaceful walk through winter storage, gasoline sales, and more, this 11- the woods, check out trails at Freneau Woods Park in acre facility offers a beautifully kept location for you Aberdeen or Clayton Park in Upper Freehold . Want to to dock your boat and head out at your leisure for a hit the trails with your mountain bike? You’ll love the day of fishing or just relaxing on the water . For more variety of trails at Hartshorne Woods Park in Locust information about renting a boat slip, call 732-495- (Middletown) . Heading out with a stroller? The paved 9440 or stop in for a tour . trails at Dorbrook Recreation Area in Colts Neck or Thompson Park in Lincroft can’t be beat . For a full list of all the Monmouth County Park System trails, visit www .MonmouthCountyParks .com . Say “I Do” in the Parks If you’re looking for the perfect location for your wedding ceremony, the Park System is happy to oblige . With gorgeous sites like the Deep Cut Gardens’ Rose Garden, sandy beaches of Seven Presidents Oceanfront Park, or the picturesque features of Historic Walnford, it’s easy to choose a location that will create the backdrop for you’re very special day . For information about hosting your ceremony in the parks, call 732-842- 4000, ext . 1 . 2 QUESTIONS? TO REGISTER: 732-842-4000, EXT. 1 • GENEL RA PARK INFO RMATION: 732-842-4000, EXT. 4312 PARK SYSTEM SPOTLIGHT PARK Historic Longstreet Farm Local History Flourishes Everyone is Included Stepping back in time and discovering the history of The Park System wants to make sure that everyone can our area is easy to do with a visit to one of our historic enjoy our parks . Our Therapeutic Recreation division sites . Historic Longstreet Farm, located within Holmdel and Special People United to Ride (SPUR) programs Park, Holmdel, is a living historical farm offering strive to provide access to recreational opportunities an experience into life as it was in rural Monmouth for residents with disabilities in order to enhance County during the 1890s . Costumed interpreters offer physical, cognitive, emotional and social functioning, a glimpse into daily and seasonal agricultural and as well as a sense of community . Programs are offered domestic activities . year-round for individuals with special needs and reasonable accommodations are made to allow those “To know your past is to know your future.” with disabilities to participate in other Park System programs with their non-disabled peers . - Ernest Agyemang Yaboah The Park System also offers two universally accessible Historic Walnford in Upper Freehold offers over 200 playgrounds: Challenger Place at Dorbrook Recreation years of social, industrial and agricultural history Area, Colts Neck, and Tony’s Place at Seven Presidents through five generations of the Waln family . Visit the Oceanfront Park, Long Branch . With elevated surfaces elegant home built in 1774, the 19th century gristmill, that are accessible to those in wheelchairs and Braille and the farm buildings as you take in the beautiful signs for the visually impaired, these playgrounds landscape of the surrounding Crosswicks Creek Park . provide an opportunity to laugh, play, grow and learn Didn’t know there was military coastal defense site in at their own level of play . Navesink from the 1940s-1970s? Head up to the Rocky Point section of Hartshorne Woods Park where you’ll New to Challenger Place is the Lion’s Sensory Den, find the Navesink Military Reservation . During WWII, designed specifically for blind or visually impaired batteries for heavy artillery were built on this site to children, which features a water spray misting column; modernize coastal defense efforts . In the 1950s-1970s, a spinning, two level globe; three drums; and three the site served as a missile defense site and command xylophone-style instruments . The Lion’s Sensory Den center with radar, computers and electronic plotting addition is thanks to donations from the Colts Neck devices . Though many structures from the site have Lions Club to the Monmouth County Friends of the been removed, Battery Lewis remains and has been Parks . restored to offer a glimpse of the area’s military history . Tours are available late spring through early fall; visit us at www MonmouthCountyParks. com. for upcoming dates and additional information . REGIST RATION BEGINS AT 8:00 AM ON WEDNESDAY, FEBA RU RY 10. SEE PAGE 106 FOR F ULL DETAILS. 3 MARCH 2021 Monday, March 1 Saturday, March 20 • Splendid Spring Strolls (p. 75) • Open Shoot Archery (p. 17) Saturday, March 6 • Woodworking Demo (p. 6) • Yarn Bee (p. 6) Saturday, March 27 Saturday, March 13 • Starting a Summer Garden (p. 6) • Accordion Melodies (p. 6) Monday, March 29 • Backyard Chickens (p. 6) • Splendid Spring Strolls (p. 75) CALENDAR OF EVENTS Monday, March 15 Tuesday, March 30 • Splendid Spring Strolls (p. 75) • Casual Birder (p. 75) Tuesday, March 16 Wednesday, March 31 • Casual Birder (p. 75) • Open Mic Poetry Night (p. 86) Thursday, March 18 • Snapping Turtles of Monmouth County (p. 77) APRIL 2021 Saturday, April 3 Thursday, April 22 • Yarn Bee (p. 6) • Earth Day Dune Planting (p. 12) Saturday, April 10 Saturday, April 24 • Draft Animal (Plowing) Demo (p. 6) • Earth Day Activities (p. 13) Sunday, April 11 • Open Shoot Archery (p. 17) (p. 7) • Draft Animal (Plowing) Demo (p. 6) • Wool Days • Drop-In Zip-Line (p. 17) Sunday, April 25 Monday, April 12 • Climb Time (p. 17) (p. 86) (p. 75) • OpenMic Poetry Night • Splendid Spring Strolls • Wool Days (p. 7) Tuesday, April 13 Monday, April 26 (p. 75) • Casual Birder • Splendid Spring Strolls (p. 75) Thursday, April 15 Tuesday, April 27 • American Oystercatchers of the Jersey Shore (p.