Horseback Riding

04/18/2009, 04/19/2009, 04/21/2009, 04/22/2009, 04/23/2009… more View All Dates

10am – 6pm

$25 per person, age 7 & up

1 hour guided trail rides through the forest, Tuesdays-Sundays, weather permitting.

• Location: Highland Forest Park
• Website: www.onondagacountyparks.com/highland
• Phone:495-6263
• Email: highland@ongov.net

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Enchanted Beaver Lake

10/22/2009, 10/23/2009, 10/24/2009, 10/25/2009

6pm – 8:30pm

Parking: $5 per vehicle Admission: $3; under 3 free

 Over 600 specially carved jack-o-lanterns of different shapes and sizes plus glowing luminaria light the way along two winding, wooded trails greeting participants as they venture through the darkness at the award-winning, Enchanted Beaver Lake. Face painting, fortune telling, magic shows, and storytelling are all a part of this magical experience, one that is truly unique to Central New York.  The Friends of Beaver Lake will be selling hotdogs, donuts, caramel apples, popcorn and cider. 

Parking is $5 per vehicle and admission to the event is $3 per person; children 3 & under are free. Due to the overwhelming popularity of this event, and limited parking, advance parking passes will be available to purchase beginning Friday, October 9. Visitors must choose which night they will attend when pass is purchased.The pass is for parking for that one night only. Parking passes will be sold at Beaver Lake Nature Center (open daily, 8am-6:30pm), Onondaga Lake Park’s Griffin Visitor Center (call 453-6712 for hours) and the Onondaga County Parks Main Office (open Mon-Fri, 8:30am-4:30pm), next to the Salt Museum, in Liverpool.  Parking passes may be purchased at the gate, if space available.

Friends of Beaver Lake members should contact the Nature Center for member specials.

Please call if you are interested in helping to carve pumpkins or if you would like to donate a jack-o-lantern.

Pumpkin Carving Contest

As part of An Enchanted Beaver Lake, the Nature Center is hosting its third Pumpkin
Carving Contest, sponsored by A. Gregory Sohrweide, D.D.S. Participants will have the
chance to display their artistic abilities and the top eight carvers will win cash prizes
ranging from $5 to $200. Carved pumpkins must be brought to the Nature Center on
Tuesday, October 20 from 9 am - 7 pm. Judging will be completed on Wednesday,
October 21 and all pumpkins will be displayed during the four evenings of An Enchanted
Beaver Lake, October 22 - 25.

• Location: Beaver Lake Nature Center
• Website: onondagacountyparks.com/enchanted/
• Phone:638-2519
• Email: blnc@ongov.net

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