Get Outdoors & Get Together Day!

The NYS Department of Environmental Conservation and Friends of Reinstein Woods invite you to explore outdoor recreation and even learn a new outdoor skill!  Part of New York State’s Get Outdoors & Get Together Day celebration, activities will include:

• Guided strolls
• Hoverball archery
• Birding opportunities, including learning to use binoculars
• Face painting
• Geocaching
• Camping demonstration
• Kids: try snowshoes!
• Information about kayaking and canoeing
• Scavenger hunts
• Sensory-calming space
• Food trucks
• Give-aways, door prize, and more!

Partner organizations include:

• Black Girls Hike Buffalo
• Buffalo Ornithological Society
• Cheektowaga Youth Engaged in Service
• Cradle Beach
• Daemen University – Nancy Haberman Gacioch Veterans Center
• Feminist Bird Club of Buffalo
• NYS DEC Forest Rangers
• NYS Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation
• NYS Office for People with Developmental Disabilities
• Parks on the Air
• Outside the Box Associates
• Penn Dixie Fossil Park & Nature Reserve
• Slow Roll Buffalo
• Team Red, White & Blue

Join these partners for a walk in Reinstein Woods: 

10:45 am –  Black Girls Hike Buffalo
11:15 am – Feminist Bird Club Buffalo
12:00 pm – Muddy Wheels Accessible Outdoors
12:45 pm – DEC Forest Ranger
1:15 pm – Reinstein Woods Center Director

No registration required for this FREE event. For more information call 683-5959.

The NFTA Parks Adventure Bus will also be offering free transportation from the main terminal in Buffalo. Riders can visit both Reinstein Woods and Como Lake in the same day. The bus will stop at Reinstein, then head to Como Lake. When the bus departs Como Lake, it will make another stop at Reinstein before heading back downtown. Paratransit clients: Service to each park will also be provided on PAL for eligible riders. You can reserve trips arriving at the park at 10 AM and leaving at 2 PM.