Events

Picnic at Wilber Park! Outdoor appreciation is easy when there’s good food involved! Come to a picnic with outdoor games, mocktails, and great people. Bring a favorite dish or just…

Join the members of the Susquehanna Chapter of the Adirondack Mountain Club for a guided hike. Meet at Meet at 9:45am for announcements and sign-in. Hike commences at 10 and…

Come volunteer with Cooperstown Friends of the Parks and help get Three Mile Point ready for a new season! Wear gloves and bring a rake.

Join OCCA Educator Shelby MacLeish for a walk in Fetterley Forest on Friday, May 10, as we check out the vernal pool, explore our surroundings, and gaze over Canadarago Lake.…

Join Delaware-Otsego Audubon Society Board Director, Charlie Scheim and Member Sandy Bright on Saturday, May 11 at 8:00am for a walk to view returning migrant birds on the Susquehanna Greenway…

Enjoy spring in the woodlands of Robert V. Riddell State Park in Davenport with OCCA. We’ll hike up to the waterfall and back, about 3.5 miles total. Along the way…

Join the Butternut Valley Alliance and the Upper Susquehanna Coalition for a volunteer workday to steward riparian forest buffer plantings in the Butternut Creek watershed. Please sign up using this…

Join Delaware-Otsego Audubon Society (DOAS) Co-President, Andy Mason on Sunday, May 12 for a spring bird walk. Returning migrants at this location should include warblers, vireos, orioles, tanagers, and possibly…

Join the members of the Susquehanna Chapter of the Adirondack Mountain Club for a guided hike. Meet at Meet at 9:45am for announcements and sign-in. Hike commences at 10 and…

Join long-time birders and DOAS members Suzanne Gaynor and Sarah Root on Wednesday, May 15 from 8:00-10:00am at lower Riddell State Park. This will be a mostly-flat, half-mile walk along…

The Glimmerglass Tri has returned after a long hiatus. 2024 will be bigger and better than ever before. Racers will begin the race on a kayak or canoe with a…

Come to Pathfinder Village for the 11th annual Splash Path 5K and Fun Walk. The festival features vendors, food trucks and music. Proceeds benefit Pathfinder Produce and vocational programs. For…

Hike the Lake of the Twin Falls Trail at Gilbert Lake State Park. Join the members of the Susquehanna Chapter of the Adirondack Mountain Club for a guided hike. Meet…

Andy Jones was a member of the Milford Fire Department since he turned 14 years old. He loved to help people and tried to bring a sense of contentment wherever…

Join in the world's longest single day flat water canoe race, 70 miles from Otsego Lake in Cooperstown down the Susquehanna River to Bainbridge. Shorter races are held on May…

Join the members of the Susquehanna Chapter of the Adirondack Mountain Club for a guided hike. Meet at Meet at 9:45am for announcements and sign-in. Hike commences at 10 and…

The Race will circle clockwise around the picturesque Otsego Lake. Runners will travel through Cooperstown, Springfield, Middlefield and the Town of Otsego. You will have views of the lake almost…

Learn the basics of hiking trail maintenance at Arnold Lake State Forest with the Otsego County Conservation Association. We’ll cover some of a variety of topics, including rules and regulations,…

Get a jump on New York’s annual Invasive Species Awareness Week (June 3-9) with a pleasant day on Goodyear Lake! Join OCCA  for a fun day on the water to…

OCCA mushroom walks are back!  Walk leader, Margret Grebowicz lives locally and aims to broaden your understanding of mushrooms and inspire you to learn more.  In early June we will…

Join OCCA Educator, Shelby MacLeish for a ramble at Forest of The Dozen Dads through the woods and along the pond as we learn common trees and flowers and look…

The Butternut Valley Alliance will transform a state forest in the Butternut Valley into an art gallery, with works by local school children as well as by professional artists with…

Join OCCA and the Central New York Chapter and the Southern Tier Chapter of the New York State Forest Owners Association for a morning of presentations on topics of interest…

Join OCCA, CRISP (Catskills Regional Invasive Species Partnership) and CR-PRISM (Capital Region Partnership for Regional Invasive Species Management) for a fun, informative, and meaningful day removing European frog-bit (Hydrocharis morsus-ranae)…

Delaware-Otsego Audubon Society will host a morning bird walk starting at 8am on June 15 in conjunction with Exploration Days at Hanford Mills. Veteran birders Suzanne Gaynor and Kathryn Davino…

Come join OCCA Board President and botanist Donna Vogler for a midsummer walk in the woods.  We will amble through the Thayer Farm woodlands, and down to a pond.  The hike…

Another fun OCCA event! It's a day off of school, so bring the kids out to Emmons Pond Bog to explore the trail and get some of their wiggles out.…

Free fishing days offer New York State residents and non-residents who are 16 and older* to fish without a freshwater fishing license or recreational marine fishing registration (*Kids under 16…

Due to the forecast for rain and high wind, we have made the difficult decision to cancel Paddlepalooza on Saturday, June 29.   _____________________________ Join us for Otsego Outdoors Paddlepalooza…

The CRISP Watershed Steward Program is offering a free community partners training session at the SUNY Oneonta Biological Field Station Boathouse. The program will focus on Aquatic Invasive Species (AIS)…