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 […]
The Greenway behind Oak Ridge's Rolling Hills Apartments (formerly known as the Garden Apartments) is one of the best wildflower trails in Anderson County, but it is threatened by garlic mustard, a very invasive exotic that crowds out native plants. TCWP and Greenways Oak Ridge have been making headway in recent years in ridding the […]
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 […]