Events

This year, Earth Festival and Drive-Thru, Drop-Off Recycling (DTDO) are separate events. We hope that you’ll be able to join OCCA for both. If you can volunteer at the Drive-Thru,…

Come explore the lesser known trails in Oneonta’s Wilber Park with OCCA Education Specialist Liz Brown. We’ll look for signs of spring as we hike up the ridge above Oneonta…

Safe Kids Otsego County presents a Bike Rodeo, with a Helmet Check by Bassett Injury Prevention, a bike fit by CNY Cycling, a Wheel Shop by CNY Cylcing and woodland…

Join members of the Susquehanna Chapter of the Adirondack Mountain Club (ADK) for a guided hike. Free and open to all. For more information, go to susqadk.org.

  Guided walk will feature opportunities to view returning migrant birds. Meet at 8 a.m. in the parking lot by the fields near the school district bus garage, just past…

Help get Gilbert Lake State Park ready for the season. I Love My Park Day is the largest single-day volunteer event in NYS and presents a perfect opportunity to clean…

Help get Glimmerglass State Park ready for the season! Volunteers needed for planting, weeding, raking, and tasks for all ages and abilities! Register at https://www.ptny.org/get.../volunteer/i-love-my-park-day Participating in this event counts…

Join members of the Susquehanna Chapter of the Adirondack Mountain Club (ADK) for a guided hike. Free and open to all. For more information, go to susqadk.org

Join OCCA educator Shelby MacLeish for a seasonal walk and pond study on the Beaver Pond and Covered Bridge Trails. Our group will examine the wetlands, beaver ponds, and shadow…

Get the Kids Out Evening Stroll at Glimmerglass State Park Have you ever wanted to explore the park after dark? Join OCCA educator Shelby MacLeish for an evening walk along…

Returning migrants should include warblers, vireos, orioles, tanagers, and possibly waterfowl and raptors. The walk will last approximately two hours, and will require some hill-climbing and hiking over uneven and…

Join members of the the Susquehanna Chapter of the Adirondack Mountain Club for a guided hike along the Susquehanna Greenway at Silas Lane. These weekly hikes are open to all.…

The 2023 Jean Miller Memorial Wildflower Walk at Gilbert Lake State Park, in cooperation with the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation – Central Region, will…

Pathfinder Village invites you to join in the 10th annual Splash Path 5K and Fun Walk. This year's event will raise funds for vocational programs and our Pathfinder Produce Mobile…

The Big Day is a group effort in which birders, working alone, in pairs, or in small groups, work to locate as many bird species as we can in a…

What will be flitting and flying about the woods and fields at Mohican Farm in Springfield? Join us and find out! Delaware-Otsego Audubon Society Co-President, Becky Gretton leads this bird…

The Butternut Valley Alliance and the Upper Susquehanna Coalition will be hosting a volunteer workday to steward riparian forest buffer plantings in the Butternut Creek watershed on May 20th, 2023…

Find out more about Otsego Outdoors, the Octet Challenges, and local trails at a talk by Peg Odell, Otsego 2000 program and communications manager, at Kinney Memorial Library in Hartwick.…

Be a part of the world's longest single-day flat water canoe race as a paddler or a spectator. The 70-mile race begins at Brookwood Point on Otsego Lake in Cooperstown…

In honor of Andy Jones, an active member of the Milford Fire Department and a Milford Central School graduate who unexpectedly passed away in January 2023 from Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy (HCM),…

Join the Otsego County Conservation Association for the first of its queer organized and led outdoor event series! This light hike is designed to give you time to connect with…

The 26.2 race will begin at 8:00am, starting and ending at Glimmerglass State Park. The 13.1 race will begin at 8:00am, starting on State Highway 80, near the Fenimore Art…

Rotary District 7170 is conducting a paddle event on the Susquehanna River defined below.  This event is open to the public.  The purpose is to enjoy our natural assets and…

The Girls on the Run Central New York 5 K is open to the public. Festivities begin at 10 am. Run, roll, push, walk or hop your way across the…

Volunteers needed! Kick of New York’s annual Invasive Species Awareness Week by getting an early start on controlling invasive water chestnut at Goodyear Lake’s “stump lot.” Bring your own watercraft…

The Land Trust needs all of the hands we can get to wake the garden back up and get it in tip-top shape for the summer. It should be a…

Volunteer with  the Otsego Land Trust for the annual spring planting and gardening day at beautiful Brookwood Point Conservation Area historic gardens. The Land Trust needs all of the hands…

It’s back! Japanese knotweed, that is, and that means Chop & Cheese is back, too. Join the Otsego County Conservation Association as it continues its efforts at eliminating a patch…

The Butternut Valley Alliance presents On the Trail of Art, a free arts festival in General Jacob Morris State Forest, featuring works by professional artists and local schoolchildren. There will…

Join Otsego Area Rowing for a Learn to Row Open House at Brookwood Point on Otsego Lake. Free and open to all ages. Rain date is June 17.