Teatown is a 1000-acre nature preserve and education center located in the Lower Hudson Valley. Our mission is to inspire our community to lifelong environmental stewardship.

UPDATE The Bergmann Boardwalk on the Lakeside Loop will be closed beginning on Monday, October 14 for repairs. The previously scheduled repairs were delayed due to weather concerns.

The repairs should take approximately one week, we will keep you informed as soon as we have a reopening date. During this time, the trail will not be a loop. Thanks for your patience!

Due to flooding, the Twin Lakes Trail has been rerouted and is now the “Three Lakes Loop.” The Twin Lakes Trail, The Waterfall Trail, and Hilltop Trail have all merged and are now blazed orange. Click here for a printable version of our updated map.

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October 26, 11am

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Beginning April 5 through November, parking tags will be required from Friday to Sunday and holidays from 9am to 5pm. Vehicle hang-tags are available for members to pick up in the Nature Center. Non-members must purchase a daily parking receipt from one of the parking stations.

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Shells, feathers, beach glass, animal bones, and more! The Kathryn W. Davis RiverWalk Center in Sleepy Hollow has a great beach for discovery. This Saturday, join a Teatown educator on a scavenger hunt as the tide goes out — what wonders can be created from the items left behind?

Link in bio. Pre-registration required.

#natureprogram #environmentaleducation #estuary #hudsonriver #ossining

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⚠️ Trail Update ⚠️ The Bergmann Boardwalk on the Lakeside Loop will be closed beginning on Monday, October 7 for repairs. The repairs should take approximately one week, we will keep you informed as soon as we have a reopening date. During this time, the trail will not be a loop. Thanks for your patience!

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Edgar the turkey vulture has passed an impressive milestone: 25 years at Teatown!

After being shot and found with a damaged wing, Edgar has called the raptor loop at Teatown home for 25 years. Welcoming many wild vulture friends and showing off the classic sunning behavior to many visitors over the years, Edgar has shown us beautiful and important vultures truly are.

#vultures #animalambassadors #educationalanimals #teatown #ossining #crotononhudson #yorktown #newcastle #environmentaleducation

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We are deeply grateful to the wonderful Teatown Community for an energetic presence and amazing generosity at this year’s Night in the Woods. On Sunday night over 250 of us came together in celebration and support of Teatown. The spirit of service was palpable as we honored the Teatown PlantFest Committee, Pace University, IBM Research, Phelps Hospital Northwell Health and New York Life Insurance Company.

Teatown alumni Greg Haber and Amar Bhadwaj so eloquently shared their personal journeys with us and in doing so made a powerful statement of Teatown’s mission: To inspire our community to lifelong environmental stewardship.

Our resolve for keeping the spirit of service alive has never been stronger, as our planet's need for committed, lifelong environmental stewards has never been greater.

We are incredibly humbled by your support. Our work wouldn't be possible without you, thank you.

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Hats off to all of the environmental stewards striking for the climate today, we were proud to join in #climatestrike #schoolstrike4climate #teatown

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World—meet Doug!

Doug is not your typical opossum. When his mama was hit by a car earlier this year, Doug was the lone survivor. Unforuntely, brain damage from the accident caused Doug to lose his instinctual fear of humans—it is not normal for opossums to act calmy around us.

His rehabilitator knew he would need a safe place to go since the wild was no longer an option for this young opossum (he's approximately 5 months old now). That is when he came to Teatown to teach the public about his amazing species.

Note: *Please* never approach or feed opossums or other wildlife. The animal ambassadors at Teatown have been placed here because of special circumstances and the staff is trained to handle wildlife.

#opossum #animalambassadors #teatown #ossining #crotononhudson #yorktown #newcastle #rehabilitatedwildlife

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It is a great privilege for Teatown to honor @paceuniversity, @ibm Research, @phelpshospital Northwell Health, @newyorklife Foundation, and the Teatown PlantFest Committee at our annual fundraising gala for showing unwavering service to Teatown’s mission.

This year’s gala will be on September 22, 5:30-9pm at the Sleepy Hollow Country Club.

The evening promises to be truly spectacular, and we hope you will join us as all proceeds from this annual benefit will go towards supporting Teatown's mission: To inspire our community to lifelong environmental stewardship.

To buy tickets and to learn more about the event and honorees, please visit the link in our bio.

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The Amazon is burning. The forests are ablaze with a record number of fires, some of which have been set intentionally. We could be losing tens, hundreds, or thousands of species we haven’t yet discovered while simultaneously losing critical carbon storage we need to combat climate change. Brazil has largely refused aid, leaving communities across the globe with a sense of helplessness.

So what can we do to make a difference?

Join in our initiative to #PlantfortheAmazon. We've partnered with local nurseries and growers to bring you free and discounted native plants (details below). One silver maple can store more than 25,000 pounds of carbon over a 55 year lifespan; Imagine what planting 100 trees could do! Don’t have room for a tree? Plant a shrub or other native plant instead to increase local biodiversity!

Here's how to participate:

1) Go to your local nursery and ask them about their native plants. We've partnered with @planitwild to have FREE native plants for the first 100 families that come into Teatown's Visitor Center and mention "Plant for the Amazon." @michaelsggn in Mount Kisco will also offer native plants buy-one-get-one-free through Labor Day, and 20% off after that to those who mention the hashtag. We have more nurseries coming on board next week - stay tuned!

2) Pick out a tree or other native species to bring home

3) Plant it in your yard

4) Encourage your friends and family to do the same by sharing a photo and using #PlantfortheAmazon and tagging Teatown so that we can share too!

Let's fight for the Amazon right here in our own backyards. Please help us spread the word!

#plantfortheamazon #amazonfires #amazon #teatown #ossining #crotononhudson #yorktown #newcastle #newyork

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Purple loosestrife (Lythrum salicaria) adds a beautiful purple color to the landscape this time of year, but don't be fooled -- this invasive plant creates dense thickets that crowd out native plants and degrade habitat for birds, insects, and other species in our wetlands.

The Explorers, Teatown’s 13 and 14 year old campers, led by Greg and Marge, conducted a service project by pulling unwanted purple loosestrife from the edge of Teatown Lake in Wildflower Woods, where it outcompetes native species.

#invasivespecies #camp #summercamp #purpleloosestrife

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