Fall Family Adventure

Come to the park for a magical fall adventure!

Fall Family Adventure offers a mix of traditional festival fun and hands-on educational opportunities that highlight how plants and wildlife change during the fall season

Fall Family Adventure activities include:

• Entertainment: Live music, a magician, storytelling, face painting, giant spider photo op
• Plants and animals: MetroParks Wildlife Ambassadors, live and decorative spiders, fall plant exploration in the gardens, on the trail and in the prairie
• Nature knowledge: Learn about bird migration and winter crow roosting, animal shape changing for winter, trees in fall and who uses them
• Self-guided prairie walk: Plant discovery, spot animal and insect winter homes
• Games: Leaf jumping, spider web walk, pumpkin maze, things with wings scavenger hunt, pumpkin tic tac toe, dress a scarecrow, leaf-jumping pools
• Crafts: Sticky nature bracelet, giant leaf spider, leaf creature stack
• New this year, kids can have their picture taken with a five-foot-tall pumpkin spider!

Links & Tags

Wegerzyn Gardens Metropark

Fall Family Adventure is taking place at Wegerzyn Gardens Metropark, which is located at 1301 E Siebenthaler Ave # 2 in Dayton. Wegerzyn Gardens Metropark - Gain inspiration for your own garden from the unique and beautiful combinations of annuals found in containers scattered throughout the grounds.

Wegerzyn Gardens Foundation.

Wegerzyn Gardens Foundation - Conduit of community support enabling Wegerzyn Gardens MetroPark to be a preeminent regional public garden that fosters personal connections to nature through horticulture.

Five Rivers MetroParks.

Five Rivers MetroParks - Five Rivers MetroParks protects the region's natural heritage and provides outdoor experiences that inspire a personal connection with nature. Bike rentals are available.