Description

Join us for an urban hike and Leave No Trace workshop with our partners at Leave No Trace. 🌲

We're hiking with Leave No Trace at the Horner Park Nature Path (~1.4 miles) before heading back to Burning Bush Brewery for beers and a mini Leave No Trace Workshop post-hike.

The Leave No Trace Traveling Teams will provide proven, research-based skills and education for getting outside in an environmentally sustainable way. Through interactive activities and during the hike, we’ll learn more about Leave No Trace practices that protect the outdoors while minimizing our impacts from the backyard to the backcountry and while enjoying your favorite local parks and natural areas.

The LNT Workshop will be held both on the trail at Burning Bush Brewery post-hike.

The Workshop

Attendees of the Leave No Trace workshop (and group hike) will walk away with the following:

• Knowledge of a new local hike in Chicago's backyard
• Learn how to incorporate Leave No Trace concepts on a hike
• Leave No Trace organization overview
• Core Leave No Trace principals and how to apply them in urban nature
• Certificate of Completion for all attendees

The Agenda

• 5:45-6pm – Meet at Burning Bush Brewery
• 6:10pm – Depart for hike – Group hike (~1.5 mile) around Horner Park
• 6:50pm – Return to brewery (Note: Sun sets at 6:55pm)
• 7:00pm – Leave No Trace Workshop
• 8:00pm – Event ends

What's Included

• Guided group hike at Horner Park
• Leave No Trace Workshop led by Leave No Trace facilitators

Note: Drinks are not provided; attendees must start their own tab at the bar.

About Leave No Trace

Leave No Trace pioneers science and provides proven, research-based solutions for the protection of the natural world.

The organization accomplishes its mission by providing innovative education, skills, research and science to help people care for the outdoors. By working with the public and those managing public lands, Leave No Trace focuses on educating people—instead of costly restoration programs or access restrictions—as the most effective and least resource-intensive solution to land protection.

Learn more at: https://lnt.org/