Winter Trails Fun
This weekend is going to be a B-E-A-Utiful one for all that enjoy getting outdoors during this time of year in Chautauqua County! With the latest storms passing through from the Midwest this week, there is ample snow for everyone to play in. While you are out this weekend, enjoying the deep snow throughout the county, take a moment to check out these little blue Snowy Owl signs scattered across the snowmobile trails. Many of these signs are placed at trail junctions, road crossings and trail heads, and each tell a stellar story about the natural history or a historical happening at each...
Read MoreSnowmobiling in Chautauqua County
While some stayed inside and enjoyed the beautiful, bitter cold landscape from the windowsill, many others were out in the winter wonderland that engulfed Chautauqua County this past weekend. Most of the county club’s snowmobile trails were open for traffic to traverse through the fields and forests, providing a unique opportunity to enjoy the incredible natural resources the county has to offer. Riding underneath the bows of a spruce forest in the state lands to riding across a sturdily built bridge passing over a stream provides a perspective not likely seen otherwise during this...
Read MoreStories From Cherry Creek
As winter approaches we have been busy researching sites for Roger Tory Peterson Institute’s cell phone tours. This season we have added Cherry Creek Sno-Goers’s trails to the tour, amongst the other clubs. As a consequence I, who live in the Cherry Creek area, have been getting to know a few of my neighbors better and discovering interesting stories about our neighborhood. One day Clyde Rodgers, owner of the local Cherry Creek business Rodgers and Sons Farm Equipment Supply, took Elyse, I and Cherry Creek historian Sharon Sweeting on a bumpy four wheeling drive into Nichols Gulf just...
Read MoreOpen House Tomorrow – Julmarknad and Julbock
As said in this previous post we would love to have you join us for RTPI’s Holiday Open House tomorrow, December 6, from 10 AM – 4 PM here at 311 Curtis Street in Jamestown, New York. The day also features our current exhibit “Bird Portraits” and an artist reception with Steve Cagan. This event coincides with the Jamestown Scandinavian Studies Program’s “Julmarknad” or Swedish Christmas Market Day held at the Hamiltion Collegiate Center at Jamestown Community College, and the Svenska Spelman band will drop in for a bit of music during the afternoon. See artwork and memorabilia of...
Read MoreCell Phone Tour Work Continues
Now that the harvest season has come to a close, Thanksgiving has passed and all the leaves are finally on the ground, we are getting ready for the snow to fly and for another year of our “Nature at Your Fingertips” cell phone tour to hit the snowmobile trails! Development of this tour was made possible in part through support from the Chautauqua Region Community Foundation. This past weekend we bundled up and erected more of our signs in preparation for the season opener on December 17th (weather willing of course!). This year’s tour will feature 25 stops packed full...
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