Community Calendar

Every morning, a volunteer naturalist leads a guided nature walk informing visitors about the different life zones of Red Rock State Park. The subjects discussed on this walk may include geology, wildlife, history, archeology, and plant life. The naturalists welcome questions during the walk, enhancing the learning experience.

This hike is included with your park entrance fees but are first-come.

Every morning, a volunteer naturalist leads a guided nature walk informing visitors about the different life zones of Red Rock State Park. The subjects discussed on this walk may include geology, wildlife, history, archeology, and plant life. The naturalists welcome questions during the walk, enhancing the learning experience.

This hike is included with your park entrance fees but are first-come.

Bird enthusiasts join a naturalist for a guided walk appropriate for beginner and advanced birders. Most year-round birds are found in the riparian area next to Oak Creek or along the field behind the Visitor Center. The Audubon Society has designated Red Rock State Park as part of the Lower Oak Creek Important Birding Area (IBA) because of the many species that live or visit here. Please meet up with the leader on the viewing deck above the visitor center.

Seasonal Bird Walk schedule:
8 a.m. March through May
7 a.m. June through August
8 a.m. September through November
9 a.m. December through February

Every morning, a volunteer naturalist leads a guided nature walk informing visitors about the different life zones of Red Rock State Park. The subjects discussed on this walk may include geology, wildlife, history, archeology, and plant life. The naturalists welcome questions during the walk, enhancing the learning experience.

This hike is included with your park entrance fees but are first-come.

Every morning, a volunteer naturalist leads a guided nature walk informing visitors about the different life zones of Red Rock State Park. The subjects discussed on this walk may include geology, wildlife, history, archeology, and plant life. The naturalists welcome questions during the walk, enhancing the learning experience.

This hike is included with your park entrance fees but are first-come.

Every morning, a volunteer naturalist leads a guided nature walk informing visitors about the different life zones of Red Rock State Park. The subjects discussed on this walk may include geology, wildlife, history, archeology, and plant life. The naturalists welcome questions during the walk, enhancing the learning experience.

This hike is included with your park entrance fees but are first-come.

Paradise Valley Community College is offering a class in which students will work on actual cold cases under the guidance of a retired police lieutenant. No prerequisites or special knowledge is required to take the class, AJS 198AF: Special Topics in the Administration of Justice (https://tinyurl.com/AJS198). Class meetings are scheduled for Mondays and Wednesdays, 10:30am - 12:10pm, beginning September 16 and going until December 13, at the PVCC Union Hills Campus, 18401 N. 32nd Street, Phoenix, AZ 85032. If you are interested in taking the class, you can register yourself as a PVCC student a thttps://www.paradisevalley.edu.

Every morning, a volunteer naturalist leads a guided nature walk informing visitors about the different life zones of Red Rock State Park. The subjects discussed on this walk may include geology, wildlife, history, archeology, and plant life. The naturalists welcome questions during the walk, enhancing the learning experience.

This hike is included with your park entrance fees but are first-come.

Every morning, a volunteer naturalist leads a guided nature walk informing visitors about the different life zones of Red Rock State Park. The subjects discussed on this walk may include geology, wildlife, history, archeology, and plant life. The naturalists welcome questions during the walk, enhancing the learning experience.

This hike is included with your park entrance fees but are first-come.

Join Dr. Grace Burford to experience a day of mindfulness along Arizona’s last wild and free-flowing river, the Upper Verde.

Experience a day of mindfulness along Arizona’s last wild and free-flowing river, the Upper Verde. Mindful Meandering invites you to slow down and fully engage with nature, using your senses to deepen your awareness of the environment and your place within it. Led by Grace Burford, this day-long program offers an opportunity to practice the foundational activity of natural history: being present and mindfully focusing on our immediate natural surroundings, moment to moment.