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
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.
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
Ethnobotany Hike
Join the Urban Park Rangers and discover local plants in Inwood Hill Park that were traditionally used to make medicine and how we may still use them today.
Registration not required.
Join the Urban Park Rangers on a meditative autumnal walk throughout Manhattan’s only old growth forest. Explore the connection between nature and personal wellbeing, engage in fire building and storytelling, and allow the changing season to inspire. Bring your own journal for any ideas along the way!
Location: West 218th Street and Indian Road in Inwood Hill Park
