Adventure Packs
At Prescott Farm, guests of all ages and experience levels can enjoy time on the Farm with Adventure Packs. Adaptable, educational, and most of all fun, Adventure Packs can be tackled as a solo mission, with a partner, or even with a group of friends & family members. Everything you need is provided inside the Adventure Packs, including activities, games and fun facts to impress your friends. FREE to reserve for Members, $15 for Non-Members. See below for available topics and how to choose the perfect interest/experience level for your group.
Select a seasonal topic:
Is It Time Yet?
Winter can seem like a quiet time, a waiting time, in the natural world. However, there is a lot going on! Explore the passage of time on your adventure today. Begin by learning about time in the plant and animal world. Then, look into how the earth’s movement around the sun affects human perceptions of time and seasons. Finally, take an imaginary step back into the bigger picture with geologic time and some poetry.
Snow Science
Water is familiar and essential, but also fascinating and beautiful– especially when it comes as snow. White, flakey, and cold, use science to investigate how this winter precipitation forms in beautiful shapes, blankets the earth’s surface, and does not stop changing from the moment it is formed in the clouds to when it disappears in the sunlight.
Tracking
Explore our native wildlife through games and activities surround their tracks in the snow and mud! You will learn to interpret their footprints to see how animals move and their behavior as you explore the natural world.
Pick your level A(nt), B(utterfly), or C(row) and go explore!
Be sure to post your adventure to social media with #PFadventurepacks. Suggested adventure time is about 2 hours. Please contact our office if you have any questions.
Cost to reserve: FREE for Members, $15 for Non-Members
Playscape & Trail Scavenger Hunts
Can you spot the buds on a maple tree along the Red Trail? Are those ferns coming up next to the Blue Trail? Where-oh-where is that big owl in the nature playscape?
Our educators have created three fun Scavenger Hunts for explorers of every age. But look out – you might just learn something, too! Head to the Prescott Farm Pardoe Center and ask to borrow one. then choose where you want to test your ‘Eye Spy’ skills!
Other ways to Engage with the Prescott Farm property:
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- Have a few hours of fun on the trails with this Quest written up by Prescott Farm’s environmental educators. Download the PDF here for outdoor adventure! Downloadable Visitor Quest Clues PDF Happy exploring!
- You can pick up a trail map in the green mailbox at the corner of the Samuel P. Pardoe Building, refer to the big map in the kiosk in the visitor parking area, or to download a PDF Trail Map, click here (updated June 2016).
- We have a geocache/letterbox on the property. For more information on finding it, please visit the official Geocaching Website.