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CONNECTING PEOPLE, CULTURES, & COMMUNITIES
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Spring is in the air, even if we have a couple second or third winters. Our spring season is packed with opportunities to learn, explore, and connect!
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| Snow Melt Cleanup Series
Coconino County Parks and Recreation joins the U.S. Forest Service, Arizona Trail Association, The City of Flagstaff, and the Friends of Coconino County Parks in the Snow Melt Cleanup Series. Help us keep Coconino County beautiful! For more information, email Sanoma.Boynton@flagstaffaz.gov.
Sign up here! |
| Green Hearts in the Park
Celebrate Earth Day 2024 at Louise Yellowman County Park by helping clean up our beautiful park, support the local community, and spend time with loved ones! This event offers something for everyone, including a park cleanup, sports and lawn games, food, and music. Bring family and friends to join Coconino County Parks and Recreation and the Friends of Coconino County Parks on April 21st, 2024 between 12:00pm and 4:00pm. Let’s make this Earth Day one to remember! This family friendly event is free to attend. Participants under the age of 12 must be accompanied by an adult. Event registration is not required, but is encouraged to help gauge our participant numbers. Register here! |
| This event is looking for sponsors, food vendors, artisans, educational sustainability booths, and volunteer entertainers! If you or someone you know near Tuba City may match this description and has an interest in joining, fill out this google form. |
| Family Fun Run
Join the Friends of Coconino County Parks for a fun run at Fort Tuthill County Park. There are 10K, 5K, and 1-mile races, with medals for the top three runners and T-shirts for all participants. There will be food vendors, including Single Speed Coffee, The Sassy Fig and Scoop There It Is, as well as live music from Ruff Stuff, Girl Etc., Sunday the Cats, and Jeremy Davis. The races start at 8:00 a.m., Saturday, April 13th.
Register here! |
| Want to help put on this event and have fun doing it? Sign up to volunteer! |
| Basic Archery Clinic
Learn the basics of bows and arrows, using equipment specifically designed for the beginning archer. This introductory program emphasizes understanding the terminology and equipment, shooting safety, and developing basic archery skills. Most importantly, there will be plenty of hands-on fun! No previous archery experience necessary.
The clinic will be held at the Fort Tuthill County Park Archery Range in Flagstaff, Arizona.
The cost for this program is $28 for Adults (18 and older) and $17 for Youth (8 – 17 years old).
Pre-registration required. Sign up here! |
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| Arizona Watchable Wildlife Experience Presents: A Bird Walk
Join wildlife experts in this season’s first bird walk with Arizona Watchable Wildlife Experience! We will meet at Rogers Lake County Natural Area (7 miles SW of Flagstaff on Woody Mountain Road / Forest Road 231, at the first Rogers Lake entrance sign as you arrive at the County Natural Area). Bring your binoculars, sturdy shoes, a sunhat, a notebook and pencil, and perhaps your camera! This event is free, but registration will be required.
Notes: We will hike up to 3 miles. Bring whatever you want for hiking, and dress appropriately for the weather. Bring binoculars and bird guide if you have them – we will have some binoculars for those that don’t.
Register here! |
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| Coconino County Fair
Get ready to enter your exhibits in the Coconino County Fair! Online submissions will be available April 8th. Look for the Coconino County Fair Book throughout the County and read online at www.CoconinoCountyFair.com.
We want to see your talent! Exhibits are free or low cost to enter.
Exhibit in the following categories:
Agriculture & Horticulture
Fine Arts
Floriculture
Gems & Minerals
Hobbies & Collectibles
Home Economics
Junior Beef
Junior Camelid
Junior Club Work
Junior Goat
Junior Horse Show & Gymkhana
Junior Poultry
Junior Rabbits & Cavies
Junior Sheep
Junior Swine
Hog Bowl Sponsors
Open Horse Show
Open Poultry
Open Rabbits & Cavies
Open Youth
Schools
Visit our website for rules and information. |
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| Wildlife Camera
The first wildlife spotting at the Fort Tuthill County Park Wildlife Drinker is a bobcat! This is one of the many species that share our parks and natural areas. Help us keep them safe by practicing Leave No Trace. Check out our other wildlife sightings on our website. |
| Hiring
Coconino County Parks and Recreation wants YOU to join our team! To apply for the following positions, click here. |
| Community Connections
Willow Bend Environmental Education Center has two events for Saturday, April 6th. Visit their website for these and all upcoming events here. |
| Check out the 2024 lineup of shows at the Fort Tuthill Pepsi Amphitheater, pepsiamp.com! |
| Register for the Tillman Honor Run here. |
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| Book Corner
April is a bookworm’s paradise with the Northern Arizona Book Festival, April 11-14. Readers can find a list of writers and publishers on the festival website, including Tina Deschenie, whose work appears in The Diné Reader: An Anthology of Navajo Literature edited by Esther G. Belin, Jeff Berglund, et al. Find her work and all Northern Arizona Book Festival participants, as well as a schedule of events here!
Young adult readers can get excited about the world of STEM with Chemistry for Breakfast: The Amazing Science of Everyday Life by Mai Thi Nguyen-Kim and Claire Lenkova. This illustrated text makes STEM concepts relatable and interesting in a way that will surely help on those end of the year exams.
Kids can get excited for spring with Roots, Shoots, Buckets & Boots: Gardening Together with Children by Sharon Lovejoy, for intermediate readers and families, and Our Community Garden by Barbara Pollak, for young ones. Remember, you can enter your flowers, vegetables, greens, fruits, and more in the Coconino County Fair!
Get these and other great, spring reads at your branch of the Coconino County Public Library or a bookshop near you! |
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