Oaks & Acorns at Gorman Nature Center

Our weekly, nature-based preschool program for children and accompanying adults is held at Gorman Nature Center. We meet on Wednesdays at 10 a.m. year round at the picnic pavilion. Please dress appropriately to hike and explore the outdoors, including boots and coats, if needed.  We plan to be outside unless weather conditions are unsafe.   Don’t…

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Mansfield Power Squadron Boating Classes

The Mansfield Power Squadron holds in-person classes to provide information and discussion about how to safely operate a boat – regardless if  that is a canoe, kayak, pontoon boat, or bigger power boat. Ohio has so many fantastic places to enjoy boating and the best boating ends with everyone coming home with good stories to…

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Maple Syrup Festival at Malabar Farm State Park

Maple Syrup Festival at Malabar Farm on March 1, 2, 8, and 9, 2025.  12:00pm-4:00pm each day. Experience a sugar camp with historic and modern syrup making demonstrations, horse drawn wagon rides, food and maple products for sale. Self-guided tours of the Big House are offered during festival hours. Free Event, donations to horse group…

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Pebbles’ Day at the Ohio Bird Sanctuary

Bring your family to this hands-on event that will feature Pebbles, our ambassador chicken. This event will include meet and greets with our touchable ambassadors animals, along with animal-inspired arts and crafts. Families can also watch and interact with pebbles while she shows off her painting skills! Ticket price includes meeting our animals, interacting with…

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Maple Syrup Festival at Malabar Farm State Park

Maple Syrup Festival at Malabar Farm on March 1, 2, 8, and 9, 2025.  12:00pm-4:00pm each day. Experience a sugar camp with historic and modern syrup making demonstrations, horse drawn wagon rides, food and maple products for sale. Self-guided tours of the Big House are offered during festival hours. Free Event, donations to horse group…

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Mansfield parkrun Weekly 5k

Mansfield OH parkrun is a FREE weekly 5km event for runners of all standards, which takes place every Saturday at 8:00am (May through September) and 9:00am (October through April) at North Lake Park in Mansfield.  It is not a race against other runners, but a 5k timed run and it can really be whatever you…

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Woodcock Walk

The Timberdoodles are in love! The American Woodcocks are back at Gorman Nature Center! Join RCPD staff members, Amanda Cicila, Luke Donahue and Jason Larson for lots of fun on a Friday night! We will meet at the nature center for a short program and then move out into the prairies to watch the flight…

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Winter’s Interlude An Orchid Presentation at Kingwood Center Gardens

Discover an enchanting retreat from the cold weather this year with an orchid presentation at Kingwood Center Gardens – Winter’s Interlude! A presentation of nearly 250 orchids, along with air plants and tropical plants, decorates the intimate space of the Orangery in the Display Greenhouse this winter season. The orchids were shipped to Kingwood Center Gardens…

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Mansfield Power Squadron Boating Classes

The Mansfield Power Squadron holds in-person classes to provide information and discussion about how to safely operate a boat – regardless if  that is a canoe, kayak, pontoon boat, or bigger power boat. Ohio has so many fantastic places to enjoy boating and the best boating ends with everyone coming home with good stories to…

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