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Help maintain and improve our hiking trails and conservation lands every Tuesday morning from 9 AM to noon with the Tuesday Trail Team.
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News
Get out and Explore!
This year we’re encouraging everyone to get outside and explore Westport with our new Trail Explorers program.
Town Meeting Provides Opportunity for Recreation
Westport residents have the opportunity to create new expanded access for recreation at Annual Town Meeting, Tuesday May 7th. Article 31 requests voters in the Town of Westport to transfer the care, custody, management and control of 2 parcels of backland located off...
Bird Box Success!
Nesting boxes provide new homes for cavity-nesting birds such as Chickadees and Carolina Wrens.
events
Trail Explorers: Naturalist Walk at Old Harbor
Explore Old Harbor Wildlife Refuge as a naturalist. Join us for a late afternoon walk to observe, explore and appreciate the world through a naturalist’s eyes—more of a ramble than a hike! Jack-in-the-pulpit and bird-footed violets should still be in bloom, and for...
Trail Explorers: Bird Walk at Old Harbor
Explore this prime bird habitat during Spring Migration. The combination of upland forest and marshy lowlands at Old Harbor Wildlife Refuge provide ideal habitat for birds. Join Aaron Teixeira for a morning walk to identify breeding Hooded Warblers, Yellow Warblers,...
Sensory Walk Series
WLCT is pleased to present this three-part series of sensory-based walks, in which visitors are invited to slow down, walk in silence, get in touch with the senses, and deepen our connection with the animate natural world. This series of mindful walks, led by Valerie...