Grab some work gloves, help restore the environment, and get a behind-the-scenes look at your preserves!

Grab some work gloves, help restore the environment, and get a behind-the-scenes look at your preserves!

Experience this unique opportunity to join a guided exploration of your preserves at night. If we're lucky, it will be a clear night and the full moon will light the way.

Grab some work gloves, help restore the environment, and get a behind-the-scenes look at your preserves!

Grab some work gloves, help restore the environment, and get a behind-the-scenes look at your preserves!

Grab some work gloves, help restore the environment, and get a behind-the-scenes look at your preserves!

Join a history educator on a guided tour of the temporary exhibition, Art for Everyone: Bob Ross® and take a closer look at famous Bob Ross® paintings and his signature technique.

Move your kids outdoors for unstructured seasonal play, proven healthful and beneficial. Celebrate seasonal fun outdoors. Build mini habitats for toy animals and use natural materials and your imagination for creation. Try snow painting or other seasonal activities. Nature provides infinite possibilities to express creativity. See how nature ignites a spark in everyone.

Grab some work gloves, help restore the environment, and get a behind-the-scenes look at your preserves!

The Dunn Museum collections include works from some of Lake County’s notable visual artists. This program will give you a glimpse into the Dunn Museum’s collections to reveal one of the rich layers composing Lake County history. Join us to learn about a few of the Lake County artists who were active in the first half of the 20th century. Whether an artist called Lake County home for a season or for almost their entire lives, both they and their art become an integral part of Lake County.

We will read a story and then venture outside to explore Ryerson woods under the night sky.

Greet the solstice with a winter bird walk as the sun rises along the shore of Lake Michigan.

Grab some work gloves, help restore the environment, and get a behind-the-scenes look at your preserves!

Grab some work gloves, help restore the environment, and get a behind-the-scenes look at your preserves!

Following a short presentation on the negative impact European buckthorn has in our preserves, we will learn how to use the proper tools and herbicide application to effectively remove this non-native invasive species from your property.

Grab some work gloves, help restore the environment, and get a behind-the-scenes look at your preserves!

Grab some work gloves, help restore the environment, and get a behind-the-scenes look at your preserves!

Celebrate the coming of the light this winter solstice. We will take night hikes, drink cocoa by the fire in the heated pavilion, and learn how animals adapt to winter.