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Jun 13, 2026 10:00 am - 2:00 pmAbout this Event
Join us for the annual Get Outdoors & Get Together Day celebration. Each year this event is held at Department of Environmental Conservation facilities and State Park Lands across the State to bring people of all abilities, ages, identities, and backgrounds together for fun, healthful activities as part of the Governor’s initiative to Get Offline, Get Outside, and to ensure inclusivity of access to state public lands.
Free kid’s fishing poles courtesy of Texas Roadhouse to the first 100 kids attending! Little Free Library will be giving away Braille Children’s books and adult audiobooks.
Activities:
- Guided strolls
- Hoverball archery
- Birding opportunities, including learning to use binoculars
- Explore What’s living in the Lily Pond!
- Face painting
- Camping Demonstration & “Fishing Game”
- Lawn Games
- Learn to Geocache
- Leave No Trace Information
- Scavenger hunts
- Sensory-calming space
- Give-aways, door prize, and more!
Exhibitors Include:
- B-WELL
- Buffalo Ornithological Society
- Cheektowaga Youth Engaged in Service
- NYS Department of Veteran’s Services
- DEC Office of Indian Nation Affairs
- Friends of Reinstein Woods
- Greater Buffalo Adaptive Sports
- New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation
- Ladders to the Outdoors
- Little Free Library
- Outside the Box Associates/Muddy Wheels AccessAble Outdoors
- NYS Office of Mental Health
- NYS Office for People with Developmental Disabilities
- Parks on the Air (Radio Association of WNY)
- Snapshot NY
Food Trucks
Polish Villa
