Join Us for Our 2024 Guided Watershed Tours!
For the sixth year in a row, we are happy to offer Guided Watershed Tours. Join our staff and expert guest naturalists for outdoor education programming featuring diverse ecological themes in the Ausable, Boquet, and Saranac River watersheds. Watershed tours are designed to engage people of all ages and abilities in outdoor recreational activities, while also inspiring participants to be active stewards of their local environment. Celebrate or kindle your appreciation for the natural beauty of the northern Adirondacks and leave with a better understanding of what threatens our local environment - and what you can do to protect these biodiverse habitats.
What to Expect
All guided watershed tours are free and open to the public, though donations are accepted. Participants under the age of 18 must be accompanied by an adult. Tours will last two to four hours and we only cancel programs if the weather is dangerous, so programs will be held rain or shine. We like to keep these group small, so tours are capped between 10 and 15 participants and registration in advance is required.
For questions and to register, please email events@ausablecenter.org or call (518) 637-6859.
Upcoming Tours:
Thursday, October 17th 10 am-12 pm. Tour the Styles Brook watershed! Author Lorraine Duvall will guide participants on an automobile tour of the Styles Brook watershed, stopping at select sites to discuss the industrial and farming history of the area and highlighting results of recent flooding. The tour will end at a cabin below the 40-50 foot Styles Brook Falls where AFC's stream restoration manager, Gary Henry, will discuss the bedrock geology and glacial deposits that comprise the watershed's landscape. There will also be a discussion of the devastation from Tropical Storm Irene on August 28, 2011. This tour is now full.
Stay tuned for more tours!
This project has been funded wholly or in part by the United States Environmental Protection Agency under assistance agreement (LC00A01141-0) to NEIWPCC in partnership with the Lake Champlain Basin Program. Matching funds generously provided by guest naturalists.
