Posted by: Kim_Hamilton on 07/21/2010 12:03 AM
Updated by: thepinetree on 08/18/2010 04:48 PM
Expires: 01/01/2015 12:00 AM
You Don't Want to Miss Family Day at Calaveras Big Trees State Park!
Calaveras Big Trees State Park, CA.....The annual Family Day celebration is set for Saturday, August 21, with a wide range of events and hands-on adventures for all ages. Public events include demonstration booths, crafts, carriage rides, demonstrations of native cultures, music and outdoor activities beginning at 10 a.m. and ending at 4 p.m. Family Day traditionally draws the largest crowds of the year to one of the state’s premier state parks. The park contains picnic areas, miles of hiking trails, snow-fed streams, conifer forests, campgrounds, two rare Giant Sequoia groves and was California’s very first tourist attraction.....
We took almost a hundred photos and a few short video clips of previous years fun event......
 
The Two Minute Tour is Here!
The day is sponsored by Calaveras Big Trees Association, the nonprofit group that raises money to support educational and interpretive programs throughout the year.
Activities for the public this year include a chance to hold reptiles, a live raptor program, and a wildlife education group called “Wild Things” that will bring rescued mammals unable to return to the wild.
New activities include: Search and Rescue team members, the Sierra Nevada Logging Museum, Calaveras High School Earth Club, First Five (with a project for preschoolers), and the return of a storyteller who has been very popular in past years.
Regular events and activities this year include: “cocked hat bowling”, which replicates bowling in the Gold Rush era, the Great Mother Lode Brass and Reed Band, fly fishing demonstrations, face painting, a talk about butterflies, fire truck demonstration, another about song birds, and hands-on craft events including “twig art” and a project by artists from “Arts of Bear Valley.”
The band “Passin’ Thru” will play in the picnic area behind Jack Knight Hall, an architectural gem built by the Civilian Conservation Corps and still in regular use. Barbecue lunches will be offered by the Arnold Moose Lodge. Ice cream and donated baked goods will also be available for purchase.
Bring the family and meet “Smokey Bear” and “Sierra,” the Big Trees chipmunk. Come and learn about Miwok culture, look through a Sun telescope or take a guided hike in the meadow, in the North Grove, or to a very special place - the Indian grinding rock that is in the park.
Calaveras Big Trees State Park is located at 4,800 feet altitude on Highway 4 in Calaveras County, between Arnold and Camp Connell. Regular park admission of $8 per vehicle will be collected at the gate.
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