W.S. Gibbs Memorial Park Opens to Public
W.S. Gibbs Memorial Park opened to the public on July 21, 2021. Learn more about Hendricks County’s newest park!
W.S. Gibbs Memorial Park opened to the public on July 21, 2021. Learn more about Hendricks County’s newest park!
Hendricks County Parks & Recreation and the Parks Foundation of Hendricks County will host the second annual Honeybee Fest at McCloud Nature Park on Saturday, Aug. 26 from 1 to 4 p.m. This free family-friendly festival celebrates the remarkable honeybee – a vital but disappearing pollinator that is credited with pollinating nearly 80 percent of…
Just in time for spring, the iconic truss bridge at McCloud Nature Park has a new deck and is ready for the park’s peak visitation season. Designed by Hendricks County Parks & Recreation Park Manager Jim Holtsclaw and completed by the department’s maintenance crew over the winter, the redecking project was done at no cost…
See the entire schedule, including course one-mile and 5K course maps!
Turner Forestry will be conducting a prescribed burn of the 52-acre prairie at McCloud Nature Park on Monday, March 29. The crew will arrive at the park at about 11 a.m., and the burn takes a few hours to complete. Prescribed burns are part of normal prairie maintenance. They assist greatly in controlling non-native invasive…
The Fall 2017 issue of The Explorer, covering September through December, 2017.
We frequently field questions from understandably inquisitive parents about our age recommendations on our programs. The questions typically go something like this: “The program says it’s recommended for ages 6 and up, but my child is 5 years old and interested in attending. Is that possible?” The short answer to these types of questions is,…