Van Cortlandt Park Nature Walk

Date: Saturday, June 15, 2024

Leader: Ken Chaya
Public Transportation: (The exact meeting place and time will be shared with attendees after their registration is confirmed.)
Schedule: Attendees should bring lunch.        
Relative difficulty: While mostly flat, some parts of the terrain involve hills and steps.

Van Cortlandt Park is New York City’s third largest green space. It contains a variety of natural habitats within its 1,146 acres, including woodlands, marshes, meadows, and a lake. Green Herons, Mute Swans, Red-winged Blackbirds, Tree Swallows, Eastern Wood-Pewees, Double-crested Cormorants, Great Egrets, Gray Catbirds, Northern Flickers, Ebony Jewelwings, Net-winged Beetles, Banded Hairstreaks, and one of our target species, the Silvery Checkerspot Butterfly, are only a few of the bird and insect species encountered on past Linnaean walks there. Attendees should bring lunch, water, and insect and sun protection. There is a restroom at the beginning of our walk and another about halfway through the park, where there is a water fountain as well.

Please read The Linnaean Society of New York COVID-19 Field Trip Guidelines before registering.

Registration opens at 9 am on Monday, June 3. After that time, click here to register. Registration closes at 6 pm on Wednesday, June 12.

Please read the About Our Trips page, especially if you’re going on a field trip for the first time. It details our field trip policies, recommends what to bring on a trip, and offers other useful information.

If after visiting the About Our Trips page, you still have questions, feel free to contact the registrar via email (or phone, if listed) between the hours of 9 am and 9 pm.