Join this illuminating exploration of nature at night at the Mountain Lakes Nature Preserve. Throughout the year, nighttime offers unique and revealing insight into the local ecology. On this spring evening we will recognize a kinship with those who live in the dark. We may discover the songs of courting frogs, talk to owls, listen for foxes and look for lingering glow worms as we move down the trail.

Our guide for this session will be nocturnal naturalist Jeff Hoagland, Education Director at the Watershed Institute. Please bring a flashlight or headlamp and a sense of wonder.

We will begin the evening with light stretching and warm-up before the walk.

This FREE, family-friendly event is sponsored by Friends of Princeton Open Space with the goal of increasing access and engagement for communities of color to Princeton's open lands and preserves.

Registration is required to attend. Be a friend, register a friend! All ages welcome.

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BYO: flashlight or headlamp, water bottle, comfortable shoes for walking (areas of the trail can be muddy) and dress in layers (spring weather can change quickly).

We ask that if you are feeling sick, or have potentially been exposed to the COVID-19 virus, to please stay home and join us at another time.

Meeting Location: We will meet at the Mountain Lakes House, 57 Mountain Ave, Princeton New Jersey. Be sure to take the long driveway entrance to the Billy Johnson Mountain Lakes Nature Preserve. A gravel parking lot is on your left about a 1/2 mile down the paved driveway.

L: Dana Hughes Moorhead, Community engagement specialist, and lover of nature

R: Romy Toussaint, Energy queen, yoga teacher, transformational trainer and coach // romyoga.com