Educational

The Sierra Club Harvey Broome Chapter, Advocates for the Oak Ridge Reservation, and TCWP will cosponsor a hike to explore parts of Oak Ridge's North Boundary Greenway, the Horizon Center natural area, and Black Oak Ridge Conservation Easement on April 2. We’ll meet at 9 a.m. at one of the eastern trailheads for the North Boundary Greenway […]

This  joint outing for TCWP and the Tennessee Native Plant Society will provide an excellent opportunity to see spring wildflowers. This will be a switch from last year: we will start from Panther Branch Trailhead. The first half-mile is ideal for those with rather limited hiking capabilities; the trail is wide and flat. For those […]

For this joint TCWP/Tennessee Native Plant Society outing we will caravan from the Spring City Exxon station to the Lower Piney River Trailhead to start a shuttle, leaving some cars there. We’ll then carpool to the Stinging Fork Falls Trailhead, and hike back from there to the Piney River Trailhead. (If COVID prevents a shuttle, […]

Join us via Zoom with author, scientist and professor David George Haskell. He will discuss how listening to the world around us – whether in the city, a natural area, or to music through our earbuds – can connect us to the living world. This free program is cosponsored with the UT Arboretum Society by Tennessee […]

TCWP will sponsor a wildflower walk on Oak Ridge’s Wildflower Greenway on April 30. We’ll meet at 9 a.m. at the eastern trailhead for the Wildflower Greenway Trail. The trailhead is located on East Vanderbilt Drive between the intersections with Valparaiso and Villanova Roads (http://tnlandforms.us/greenways/maps03/wf.html). The Greenway trail is only 0.8 mile one way, but […]