We Love Poricy Park Day, FREE, Middletown, NJ

Poricy Park Conservancy announces their FREE event, “We Love Poricy Park Day” on Saturday, June 6th, 1:00pm-4:00pm. Poricy Park is located at 345 Oak Hill Road, Middletown, NJ.

Fun for the entire family, this FREE event includes the following activities:

• Live Reptile Show (2pm-3pm) - you will be fascinated by mammals, lizards, snakes, frogs, turtles and insects, presented by Rizzo’s Wildlife.

• Self-Guided Scavenger Nature Hunt - park-wide, pick up your map guide in the Nature Center; return your completed map for a “token” prize.

• Explore Poricy Park with a trained guide; sign up on site for hikes departing Nature Center.

• Pond Activity - Learn about the creatures of the Murray Pond Ecosystem; observe tadpoles and dragon flies and chat with knowledgeable volunteers about pond life and your observations.

• Nature Arts & Crafts activity table

• Look and Learn all about worms
• GeoCaching - download app on your smart phone or bring your personal handheld GPS unit and pick up geocache wavepoints from our activity table and enjoy a self-guided excursion.
• PPC Guided Geocache excursion - sign up at activity table for an instructor-led geocache excursion using your own device or a PPC GPS unit.
• Wander down to the Murray Homestead and enjoy activities/demonstrations celebrating Joseph Murray including interpretive tours of the Murray farmhouse & Barn, colonial children’s games, flax processing demonstrations, butter churning, wood working demo, Colonial Garden tours and tips, colonial cooking exhibition, colonial photo ops, bring a camera!

• Nature Center/Gift Shop Open - Learn all about the benefits of membership and the ongoing impact community support has on the future of the Poricy Park Conservancy.

Thank you to Protector Sponsor, TD Bank of Middletown and all Park volunteers, for helping to make this event possible. For sponsorship opportunities, contact the Park at 732-842-5966.

Activities and schedule subject to change.

All community and summer camp programs are run by Poricy Park Conservancy, a non-profit 501 (c) (3) organization, located at 345 Oak Hill Road in Middletown Township. With exceptional ecological resources, the 250 acre historical and nature site makes it one of the largest parks in Monmouth County. PPC offers a variety of class trips for school children with hands-on programs including history, science and nature for pre-K through 5th grade. The Park offers recreational activities such as magnificent wooded hiking trails, bird watching, pristine pond settings, fishing, and a one-of-a-kind 70 million year-old Cretaceous fossil bed. Poricy Park is home to the 1770 NJ Historic Murray Farmhouse and Barn. The Nature Center is open Monday-Friday, 9:00am-4:00pm and weekends based on scheduled programs. For more information please visit www.PoricyPark.org, or call 732-842-5966