COVID-19 UPDATE: The Harris Center is canceling or postponing all in-person programs and events through May 4. The Harris Center building will also be closed to visitors until May 4. Our trails and grounds remain open.
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April 2020
Vernal Pool Hike at the Horatio Colony Preserve
Join Brett Amy Thelen for a moderately strenuous, 1.2-mile roundtrip climb to a hilltop vernal pool at the Horatio Colony Nature Preserve, where we’ll explore the fascinating world of spring-breeding amphibians.
Learn more »May 2020
Easygoing Hike at Pisgah State Park
Join Rich Taylor and Iva Wood for a moderately strenuous, 3-mile roundtrip hike through New Hampshire’s largest state park.
Learn more »Following in the Footsteps of John Kulish Along the North Branch
Join Stan Smith and Vic Starzynski for a moderately strenuous hike along the North Branch River, following one of John Kulish's favorite hunting routes.
Learn more »Heald Tract Hike
Join Denny Wheeler and Brian Bishoff for a 4.5-mile roundtrip hike along a great trail system that runs through the Forest Society's 1,500-acre Heald Tract.
Learn more »Rainbow Hike at Goodhue Hill
Join Dee Denehy, Jenn Sutton, and Liz Lawler (and baby Wren) for an LGBTQ+-friendly hike through the Mill Pond and Goodhue Hill areas of the dePierrefeu-Willard Pond Wildlife Sanctuary.
Learn more »June 2020
Easygoing Hike up Mount Watatic
Join Rich Taylor for a 3-mile roundtrip hike on the Wapack Trail to the summit of Mount Watatic. The trail rises about 500 feet, but the views from the summit are worth it.
Learn more »Harris Center Classic: Royalston Falls Hike
Join Denny Wheeler and Brian Bishoff for a 3.5-mile roundtrip to scenic Royalston Falls, just south of the Massachusetts border. The trail winds through groves of rhododendron, which should be in bloom.
Learn more »Harris Center Big Year of Birding: Uncommon Breeders of the SuperSanctuary
Join Eric Masterson for this next installment in our “Big Year” series of birding outings to Harris Center protected lands – a search for the SuperSanctuary's less common breeding birds.
Learn more »Hiking Through the Decades: Willard Pond
In celebration of our 50th Anniversary, we're offering Hiking Through the Decades, a four-hike series that traces the history of the Harris Center's land protection efforts. In this edition, Eric Masterson and Phil Brown will discuss some of the 1990s land conservation work that protected the shoreline of Willard Pond.
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