Dyken Pond Events

Summer Camp
Registration is now open for our summer nature camp for youth aged 6 – 14 at the Dyken Pond Environmental Education Center. Our summer camp is officially the “Summer Outdoor Learning Adventure” or SOLA for short.  Summer camp has all the fun of kids being in the outdoors along with exploring exciting habitats, discovering amazing creatures and plants of the natural world, campfires, games and making new friends. Kids hardly realize that they are also learning ecology, science skills, creative thinking and problem solving as well!
Registration forms, dates, information and a video of “Highlights of Summer Camp 2010” are all available at our website: www.dykenpond.org.  Just click on the environmental education tab.
Limited partial and full scholarships are available and applications can  be found at the website. This year, camp brochures will not be mailed out unless requested.
Ice Storm Update
The Center was without power for eight days, and the entrance road was closed for the same amount of time. The entrance road is now open but under mud season conditions (i.e. still very icy, muddy and rutted). The main lawn is still under 6 to 10 inches of snow, while the woods have 10 -to 15 inches. But there are some bare spots starting to show through, and there was a robin singing this morning. This is good!
Mark your calendars for Saturday, April 16, which is Earth Day Trail Clean-up Day.  We could use the help!