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Inwood Hill Park: iNaturalist Together Week – Evening Plant ID Walk

Join NYC Parks and Macaulay Honors College to celebrate iNat Together Week, for an evening bioblitz at Inwood Hill Park, which is part of the Old-Growth Forest Network and accessible via subway. Tina Cuevas, natural areas outreach coordinator at NYC Parks, will discuss restoration activities within NYC Parks and how monitoring plays a large part in how Parks works within our city’s natural areas and beyond. Kelly O’Donnell, lead NYC organizer for City Nature Challenge & director of Science Forward at Macaulay Honors College, will contextualize the data that iNaturalist captures and becomes part of a larger global dataset that helps scientists with their research all over the globe. Participants will learn how to use the iNaturalist app to take data observations of local plants and wildlife. They will be able to learn how to lead their own bioblitzes and engage with the iNaturalist community. Come dressed in sturdy boots or shoes, long sleeves, long pants, and clothing that can get dirty (since we might crouch down on the ground to look at plants).

Meeting Location: Payson Playground in Inwood Hill Park
Dyckman Street and Payson Avenue

Free — Registration is required on the NYC Parks Stewardship page

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Inwood Hill Park: Nature In A Warming World

Join the Urban Park Rangers for a focused walk through Inwood Hill Park to explore how climate change is affecting local plants and wildlife. Learn how shifting temperatures and extreme weather influence the insects, trees, birds, and mammals we see every day, and discover the changes already underway in this unique urban forest.

Location: West 218th Street and Indian Road in Inwood Hill Park

Inwood Hill Park: Manahatta Walk 2026

Sanakori (Taino Fun House, Shorakapok Earth Keepers, Mobile Indigenous Library, CyberBehike Podcast) will lead our Shorakapok Walk. This event will be conducted in English.

We are proud to announce that this year’s guest of honor will be Lenni Lenapexkweyok, a women’s collective from five federally recognized Lenape nations: the Delaware Tribe of Oklahoma, the Delaware Nation of Oklahoma, the Delaware Nation at Moraviantown, the Munsee-Delaware Nation, and the Stockbridge-Munsee Band of Mohicans. They coordinate homecoming trips for Lenapes residing in Oklahoma, Wisconsin, and Ontario as a way of intergenerational healing. On June 20th of this year, members of the collective attended the NYC screening of The Birth of Lenni Lenapexkyweyok: A Collaboration Between Catalyst and Lenape Matriarchs, a documentary film about their 2022 return to the ancestral homeland.

$15 suggested donation helps makes our events possible and helps support the budding community land trust (CLT) movement in Northern Manhattan.

Shorakapok Walk

Date & Time: 9/18/26 | 9 – 11AM
Location: North Cove | 375 W 207 St, New York, NY 10034
Difficulty: Moderate
Accessibility: Not accessible to people using wheelchairs, walkers, canes or strollers
Note: We will be exploring one of the oldest tracts of forest in NYC so make sure you’re protected against sun exposure, ticks and mosquitoes by wearing closed-toed shoes, long sleeves, and using natural bug repellant, if needed. We’ll be passing by the bathroom and water fountains at Inwood Hill Park.

Inwood Hill Park: Fantastic Fungi Mushroom ID Hike

Join the Urban Park Rangers on a mushroom exploration! We will lead a guided mushroom walk through Inwood Hill Park and help locate mushroom species and discuss their unique qualities! Come learn about our funky fungi kingdom and the mycelial connections that are integral to our ecosystems.

Location: Seaman Avenue and Isham Street in Inwood Hill Park

Registration not required