High Park Nature Centre
375 Colborne Lodge Dr. M6S 0A4 Toronto, ON, Canada

Apply to join our team as an Environmental Education Summer Camp Counsellor for the 2021 summer! . Environmental Education Summer Camp Counsellors will be responsible for a different group of kids each week and will deliver fun and educational nature programs in High Park. . For more details and to apply: https://highparknaturecentre.com//environmental-education-... . #HighPark #Employment #Job #Jobs #WereHiring #OutdoorEducation #OutdoorEd #SummerCamp #SummerCamps #CampCounsellor #NatureCentre #JobOpportunity #JobOpportunities See more

Did you hear the exciting news? The High Park Nature Centre is the proud recipient of a grant from the Investing in Community Infrastructure Program! This funding will support vital renovations to the historic Forest School building, bringing us one step closer to building a "Home in High Park" with the new High Park Visitor & Nature Centre. Read more here: https://highparknaturecentre.com/in/donate-capital-campaign and stay tuned for updates on how you can get involved during the "Home Stretch"!

This week’s #MysteryMonday is a friendly reminder to all of us that it’s not only looking and feeling like spring outside, but it’s sounding like it too! . Any thoughts on which nature friend made this sound, from way up in the treetops? . Share your guess in the comments ... . #mystery #NatureKnowledge #HighPark #OutsideForever #hiking #GetOutside #OutdoorEducation #UrbanPark #GreenSpace #UrbanBiodiversity #WildCity #NatureFinds #OutdoorEd #NatureNerding #NatureMystery #SignsOfSpring #spring See more

A friendly reminder to all newcomer youth about our High Park Rangers program! . Youth (ages 12-16) connect to nature and others by volunteering weekly in High Park. This program will begin its sessions online and hopefully move to in-person once it is safe to do so. . The online information session is on WEDNESDAY (April 14, 6:30PM)... . Registration is OPEN . For more details: https://highparknaturecentre.com/nature-clubs-youth-leaders . #NatureClubs #HighPark #AlwaysLearning #OutdoorEducation #OutdoorEd #LocalEcology #GreenSpace #UrbanBiodiversity #ForYouth #YouthLeadership #SpringClub #SpringClubs #ForNewcomers #Newcomer #NewcomerProgram #NewcomerPrograms #NatureClub #SocialDistancing #PhysicalDistancing #spring #GetOutside See more

Gather your friends, family, or community group into a virtual room" for a ReWild at Home program! . Choose a theme from our menu and we’ll bring you 60 minutes of facilitated nature connection through learning and community building activities such as interactive presentations, games, and challenges. . For more details, themes, and bookings: https://highparknaturecentre.com/youth-community-teambuildi... . #teambuilding #TeambuildingProgram #TeambuildingPrograms #HighPark #HandsOnLearning #AlwaysLearning #OutdoorEducation #OutdoorEd #LocalEcology #GreenSpace #UrbanBiodiversity #online #OnlineProgram #OnlinePrograms #OnlineLearning #SocialDistancing #PhysicalDistancing See more

A friendly reminder that our online Nature Cafe - Tracks of Spring April Break Camp starts TOMORROW! . Over 5 days, from 10AM-11AM, join HPNC hosts, Jessie & Jenny, and special guests to focus learning around different themes that will build our skills as nature detectives. Join in for individual sessions, or the whole series. All ages are welcome! . For more details and registration: https://highparknaturecentre.com/special-events... . #HighPark #SpecialEvent #SpecialEvents #GetOutside #OutsideForever #GreenSpace #SocialDistance #SocialDistancing #PhysicalDistance #PhysicalDistancing #OnlineEvent #OnlineEvents #NatureCafe #CityOfTO #ShowLoveTO #AprilBreak #FamilyFriendly See more

Birds of the City has been added to our list of ReWild at Home program themes! . Gather your friends, family, or community group into a virtual room" for 1 hour of facilitated nature connection through learning and community building activities. Together we’ll learn about how birds respond to the city and the city’s impacts upon them, how we can help them, and offer some basic tools for identifying birds. . For more details and bookings: https://highparknaturecentre.com.../youth-community-teambuildi . : Andrew Yee . #teambuilding #TeambuildingProgram #TeambuildingPrograms #HighPark #HandsOnLearning #AlwaysLearning #OutdoorEducation #OutdoorEd #LocalEcology #GreenSpace #UrbanBiodiversity #online #OnlineProgram #OnlinePrograms #OnlineLearning #SocialDistancing #PhysicalDistancing See more

On February 13 (3:30PM-4:30PM) join us online for Nature Cafe: Storytelling Edition! . Experience the power of stories as tools for making sense of our world and for making deeper connections between each other, and with nature. We’re excited to bring storyteller Chris Cavanagh to co-facilitate this experience! . For more details and registration: https://highparknaturecentre.com/special-events... . #HighPark #SpecialEvent #SpecialEvents #GetOutside #OutsideForever #GreenSpace #SocialDistance #SocialDistancing #PhysicalDistance #PhysicalDistancing #OnlineEvent #OnlineEvents #NatureCafe #CityofTO #ShowLoveTO See more

The bright yellow colour of this week’s #MysteryMonday is what caught our eye! These feathers were spotted in the grass, signaling to us that maybe there was recently a struggle between predator and prey. Any thoughts on who these feathers might belong to? . Share your guess in the comments below . #mystery #NatureKnowledge #HighPark #OutsideForever #hiking #GetOutside #OutdoorEducation #UrbanPark #GreenSpace #UrbanBiodiveristy #WildCity #NatureFinds #OutdoorEd #NatureNerding #NatureMystery

A friendly reminder that registration is OPEN for our February/March winter nature clubs! . These clubs for kids will start online, but then hopefully move to in-person if COVID restrictions lift and we are able to offer in-person programming again. . Fox & Kits (18 months-5 year olds and their caregiver)... Raccoons (6-9 year olds) Coyotes (9-12 year olds) . For more details and registration: https://highparknaturecentre.com/nature-clubs . #NatureClubs #HighPark #AlwaysLearning #OutdoorEducation #OutdoorEd #LocalEcology #GreenSpace #UrbanBiodiversity #ForKids #KidFriendly #WinterClub #WinterClubs #ClubsForKids #NatureClub #SocialDistancing #PhysicalDistancing #winter #GetOutside #OnlineClub #OnlineClubs #OnlineLearning See more

Mediation can help you focus, stay calm and lower your stress! . Max and Bjorn, from the High Park Rangers youth volunteer stewardship program, guide you through a written nature meditation as this week’s nature connection. . To read Max and Bjorn’s blog: https://highparknaturecentre.com/blog/2020/nature-meditation... . #HighPark #LocalEcology #WildCity #GreenSpace #AlwaysLearning #HandsOnLearning #OutdoorEducation #OutdoorEd #NatureChallenge #GreenLiving #SocialDistancing #PhysicalDistancing #NatureKnowledge #NatureNerd #Neature See more

On Thursday, December 3, join us for our Annual General Meeting! All members, donors and supporters are encouraged to attend - and if you'd like to learn more about what we’ve been up to over the past year then please join us too! . Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, this event will take place online . To RSVP for our AGM: https://highparknaturecentre.com/special-events... . : Andrew Yee . #HighPark #SpecialEvent #SpecialEvents #GetOutside #OutsideForever #GreenSpace #SocialDistance #SocialDistancing #PhysicalDistance #PhysicalDistancing #OnlineEvent #OnlineEvents #AGM #AnnualGeneralMeeting #NatureCentre See more

Learn about the natural world from home with our Online Naturalist Courses for adults! . Choose from these exciting course topics: . Fantastic Fungal Friends... Birds of the City Nature Journaling for Naturalists . Or choose the Online Naturalist Experience, which gives you access to ALL of the topics! . For more details and to register: https://highparknaturecentre.com/adult-workshops . : Andrew Yee . #AdultProgram #AdultPrograms #OutdoorEducation #OutdoorEd #HighPark #AlwaysLearning #UrbanBiodiversity #WildCity #wildlife #fall #autumn #GreenSpace #ForAdults #naturalist #naturalists #SocialDistancing #PhysicalDistancing #OnlineLearning #NatureKnowledge #ShowLoveTO See more

Word of the week is ACHENE (botany noun): A dry, one-seeded fruit lacking special seams that split to release the seed. . During this time of year, many of the High Park sunflowers are producing their seeds. Each of the individual ‘seeds’ of the sunflowers are actually entire fruits called achenes with a single seed present inside each one. . For the full story: https://highparknaturecentre.com///word-of-the-week-achene... . #WordOfTheWeek #NatureWords #NatureVocabulary #NatureNerding #NatureKnowledge #NewWords #HighPark #biodiversity #LocalEcology #WildCity #chickadee #sunflower #SunflowerSeeds #BackyardBirds #BlackCappedChickadee See more

#TBT to a warm fall day in the year 1989. This Air Canada employee was biking through High Park, enjoying the fresh air and warm sun, before finding a wonderful spot to settle down and read. . Whether it’s in High Park or somewhere else, reading in nature can be such a special and relaxing experience. Do you have a special outdoor reading spot? . #throwback #ThrowbackThursday #HighPark #GetOutside #OutsideForever #GreenSpace #ArchivalPhoto #TorontoArchives #archive #archives #NatureCentre #BlackAndWhitePhtography #fall #autumn

The High Park Nature Centre would like to invite you to join us for our Annual General Meeting. This event will take place on Thursday, December 3 at 7PM. All members, donors and supporters are encouraged to attend - and if you'd like to learn more about what we’ve been up to over the past year then please join us too! . Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, this event will take place online . To RSVP for our AGM: https://highparknaturecentre.com/special-events... . #HighPark #SpecialEvent #SpecialEvents #GetOutside #OutsideForever #GreenSpace #SocialDistance #SocialDistancing #PhysicalDistance #PhysicalDistancing #OnlineEvent #OnlineEvents #AGM #AnnualGeneralMeeting #NatureCentre See more

Our online ReWild at Home programs are designed to support different child & youth-aged groups who are meeting online, such as: . Community groups Guides & Scouts groups Friendship / family groups... Study & homeschool groups Learning Pods . For more details and registration: https://highparknaturecentre.com/youth-community-teambuildi . #teambuilding #TeambuildingProgram #TeambuildingPrograms #HighPark #HandsOnLearning #AlwaysLearning #OutdoorEducation #OutdoorEd #LocalEcology #GreenSpace #UrbanBiodiversity #ForKids #KidFriendly #online #OnlineProgram #OnlinePrograms #OnlineLearning #SocialDistancing #PhsycialDistancing See more