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High Plains Environmental Center’s 2023 Native Plant Sale starts March 31st and will run through September. New varieties of prairie and Rocky Mountain native plants will be added throughout the season as they become available in the HPEC nursery. Native plants help to conserve water and support native wildlife, especially pollinators! Get a sneak peek […]
Interpretive Guides: Kristin Oles (Restoration Ecologist & Project Manager), Jack Landen (Lead Field Technician), OR JT Love (Field Technician) Join us on the Second Saturday of each month, January-December from 9am – 10:30am, for a fun and casual interpretive walk between Hout Reservoir and Equalizer Lake, guided by our Restoration Ecology staff & Certified Interpretive Trail Guides. […]
Sheila Webber will be guiding a bird walks at Chapungu Sculpture Park on Sunday, June 24. This walk combines two of our favorite things- Art & Birds! Walking will be at a slow pace on approximately 2 miles of level walking paths. Consider bringing binoculars and a field guide to enhance your birding experience. The […]
Join us on on the FIRST SATURDAY OF EACH MONTH from 9:00am-11am for Bird Banding with Scott Rashid (Director of the Colorado Avian Research and Rehabilitation Institute) followed by a casual bird walk at Equalizer Lake with Sheila Webber of the Fort Collins Audubon Society. Participants meet at the High Plains Environmental Center, 2698 Bluestem […]
Interpretive Guides: Kristin Oles (Restoration Ecologist & Project Manager), Jack Landen (Lead Field Technician), OR JT Love (Field Technician) Join us on the Second Saturday of each month, January-December from 9am – 10:30am, for a fun and casual interpretive walk between Hout Reservoir and Equalizer Lake, guided by our Restoration Ecology staff & Certified Interpretive Trail Guides. […]
Sheila Webber will be guiding a bird walks at Chapungu Sculpture Park on Saturday, July 22. This walk combines two of our favorite things- Art & Birds! Walking will be at a slow pace on approximately 2 miles of level walking paths. Consider bringing binoculars and a field guide to enhance your birding experience. The […]
Winter Wonderlights™ returns for the 2022 holiday season from Saturday, November 19, 2022 through Sunday, January 1, 2023 at the Chapungu Sculpture Park at Centerra in Loveland, Colorado just east of the Promenade Shops retail center at U.S. Hwy. 34 and I-25. About Winter Wonderlights Each night, visitors can walk through the beautiful park and enjoy 150,000 lights including holiday […]
Centerra’s Wild Wonderful Weekend returns this September. The weekend celebration of Colorado’s first Certified Wild Community – the Centerra master-planned community in Loveland – will kick off Friday, September 23 with an interactive outdoor family-friendly scavenger hunt around Centerra. The fun will continue Saturday, September 24 with morning wild nature walks at Chapungu Sculpture Park […]
High Plains Environmental Center’s 2022 Native Plant Sale is now on, through September. New varieties of prairie and Rocky Mountain native plants will be added throughout the season as they become available in the HPEC nursery. Native plants help to conserve water and support native wildlife, especially pollinators! All plants come in a 2 3/8 […]
The annual Sweetheart Festival, hosted by Visit Loveland, invites lovers and families from around the world to gather in the “Sweetheart City.” And then it showers them with music, love potions (a.k.a. craft brews) and more. So grab that special someone and come make a day of it. Loveland Sweetheart Festival – Feb. 11-12, 2022 […]
Maybe this is where you finally pop the question. For the first couple weeks of February, Chapungu Sculpture Park transforms into a wonderland illuminated by thousands of red and pink lights. Add some sweetheart-themed decor and romantic music, and you have the perfect place to put a ring on it. Stay tuned for more details!
Santa is coming to Centerra and hopes you will visit him in his Workshop at Chapungu! REGISTER HERE About this event Deck the halls and trim the trees, Santa’s coming to Centerra! Meetup outdoors with the jolly ol’ man and his elves at Chapungu Sculpture Park on Dec. 4, 11 or 18, from 12 – 4 p.m. Share […]