Nature Walk: Birds | Registration Required
2024-05-30 08:00 - 09:30 UTC
From owls to eagles, hummingbirds to sparrows, get up early and explore the various birds that call Schweiger Ranch home!
Schweiger Ranch has teamed up with South Suburban Parks & Recreation District to provide free, guided walking tours led by professional naturalists from SSPRD. These tours offer insight and education into the natural environment on and around Schweiger Ranch, while offering a chance to get some fresh air and exercise. Join us to see and hear the early morning cheery birds of spring.
This event is held outside. It will be modified or canceled due to inclement weather or poor walking conditions.
Registration Required | Click here to register

Nature Walk: Native Plant Families | Registration Required
2024-06-14 08:30 - 10:00 UTC | Schweiger Ranch, 10822 S. Havana St., Lone Tree, CO, 80134, United States
Schweiger Ranch has teamed up with South Suburban Parks & Recreation District to provide free, guided walking tours led by professional naturalists from SSPRD. These tours offer insight and education into the natural environment on and around Schweiger Ranch, while offering a chance to get some fresh air and exercise.
Join us for a leisurely walk led by a certified Colorado Native Plant Master and explore native plants growing on and around Schweiger Ranch. During this beginner-friendly plant identification walk we will look at plants that are native to Colorado ecosystems and practice identifying them based on their family characteristics. Please bring plenty of water, snacks, a journal and something to write with.

This event is held outside and may be modified or canceled due to inclement weather or poor walking conditions.

Registration has closed for this event.

Nature Walk: Natural Heritage of Native Americans | Registration Required
2024-07-18 08:30 - 10:00 (America/Denver) | Schweiger Ranch, 10822 S. Havana St., Lone Tree, CO, 80134, United States
Schweiger Ranch has teamed up with South Suburban Parks & Recreation District to provide free, guided walking tours led by professional naturalists from SSPRD. These tours offer insight and education into the natural environment on and around Schweiger Ranch, while offering a chance to get some fresh air and exercise.
Come for a walk and learn various land stewardship techniques of the Ute, Cheyenne, and Arapahoe tribal communities whose ancestral homelands are throughout the front range. Reflecting on these indigenous practices can provoke meaningful conversations on how we can be better stewards ourselves. Be sure to bring water, snacks, a journal and something to write with.

Registration closed, all spots reserved.

Nature Walk: Nature Bingo | Registration Required
2024-08-17 08:30 - 10:00 (America/Denver) | Schweiger Ranch, 10822 S. Havana St., Lone Tree, CO, 80134, United States
Schweiger Ranch has teamed up with South Suburban Parks & Recreation District to provide free, guided walking tours led by professional naturalists from SSPRD. These tours offer insight and education into the natural environment on and around Schweiger Ranch, while offering a chance to get some fresh air and exercise.
Look for signs of summer to win a “bingo”! We’ll identify summer flowers and the birds we hear and see around us. Bring your phone to experiment with some ID apps. Children’s bingo cards will also be available.

Registration closes 8/15.

Nature Walk: Harvest Moon | Registration Required
2024-09-17 18:30 - 20:00 (America/Denver) | Schweiger Ranch, 10822 S. Havana St., Lone Tree, CO, 80134, United States
Join Schweiger Ranch Foundation and a South Suburban Parks & Recreation District Naturalist as we walk to a peaceful spot on the trail to experience the rising full moon. We will return to the parking lot by the light of the full moon, using our human night vision which we’ll experience as we enjoy the moonlight. The trail is nicely level, so we’ll use flashlights only if absolutely necessary for our return trip.
This event is held outdoors and may be canceled or rescheduled due to inclement weather. Should the event be canceled, notifications will be sent to the email used to register for the event.

Registration closes September 15th

Nature Walk: Wildflowers | Registration Required
2025-06-07 08:30 - 10:00 (America/Denver) | Schweiger Ranch, 10822 S. Havana St., Lone Tree, CO, 80134, United States
Schweiger Ranch has teamed up with South Suburban Parks & Recreation District to provide free, guided walking tours led by professional naturalists from SSPRD. These tours offer insight and education into the natural environment on and around Schweiger Ranch, while offering a chance to get some fresh air and exercise. Join us as we go in search of all the wildflowers that bud in the spring.

This event is held outside and will be modified or canceled due to inclement weather or poor walking conditions.

Limited Space | Registration closes June 5th or earlier if capacity is reached.

Nature Walk: Nature Mystery | Registration Required
2025-07-13 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Denver) | Schweiger Ranch, 10822 S. Havana St., Lone Tree, CO, 80134, United States
Schweiger Ranch has teamed up with South Suburban Parks & Recreation District to provide free, guided walking tours led by professional naturalists from SSPRD. These tours offer insight and education into the natural environment on and around Schweiger Ranch, while offering a chance to get some fresh air and exercise.
Step into the shoes (or paws, claws, and hooves) of Colorado’s ecosystem’s most fascinating inhabitants in this thrilling nature-inspired mystery game! Participants will each take on the role of an animal in our local environment and work together to solve a perplexing ecological mystery. With guidance from our expert naturalists—your key “nature detectives”—you’ll uncover clues, analyze relationships between plants, animals, and their environment, and piece together the story of a disturbance in the ecosystem.
This event is held outside and will be modified or canceled due to inclement weather or poor walking conditions.

Registration Closed

Nature Walk: Native American Plant Uses | Registration Required
2025-08-16 08:30 - 10:00 (America/Denver) | Schweiger Ranch, 10822 S. Havana St., Lone Tree, CO, 80134, United States
Schweiger Ranch has teamed up with South Suburban Parks & Recreation District to provide free, guided walking tours led by professional naturalists from SSPRD. These tours offer insight and education into the natural environment on and around Schweiger Ranch, while offering a chance to get some fresh air and exercise. Join us for a leisurely walk as we find some of the same plant species used for food, construction, or medicine by tribes in this region many years ago.

This event is held outside and may be modified or canceled due to inclement weather or poor walking conditions.

Limited space | All spots are filled, registration is closed.

Nature Walk: Full Moon with Bats | Registration Required
2025-09-07 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Denver) | Schweiger Ranch, 10822 S. Havana St., Lone Tree, CO, 80134, United States
Schweiger Ranch has teamed up with South Suburban Parks & Recreation District to provide free, guided walking tours led by professional naturalists from SSPRD. These tours offer insight and education into the natural environment on and around Schweiger Ranch, while offering a chance to get some fresh air and exercise.
Join us as we walk to a peaceful spot on the trail to experience the rising full moon. We’ll watch and listen for bats as they leave the barn at nightfall. We will return to the parking lot by the light of the full moon, using our human night vision.
This event is held outside and will be modified or canceled due to inclement weather or poor walking conditions.

Limited space | Registration will close on September 5th or earlier if capacity is reached

Nature Walk: Full Moon with Bats | Registration Required
2026-06-27 19:30 - 21:00 (America/Denver) | Schweiger Ranch, 10822 S. Havana St., Lone Tree, CO, 80134, United States
Schweiger Ranch has teamed up with South Suburban Parks & Recreation District to provide free, guided walking tours led by professional naturalists from SSPRD. These tours offer insight and education into the natural environment on and around Schweiger Ranch, while offering a chance to get some fresh air and exercise.
Join us as we walk to a peaceful spot on the trail to experience the rising full moon. We’ll watch and listen for bats as they leave the barn at nightfall. We will return to the parking lot by the light of the full moon, using our human night vision.
This event is held outside and will be modified or canceled due to inclement weather or poor walking conditions.

Limited space | Registration opens on April 1st and will close on June 25th or earlier if capacity is reached.

Nature Walk: Birds | Registration Required
2026-07-16 18:00 - 19:30 (America/Denver)
From owls to eagles, hummingbirds to sparrows, join us as we explore the various birds that call Schweiger Ranch home!
Schweiger Ranch has teamed up with South Suburban Parks & Recreation District to provide free, guided walking tours led by professional naturalists from SSPRD. These tours offer insight and education into the natural environment on and around Schweiger Ranch, while offering a chance to get some fresh air and exercise. Join us to see and hear the early morning cheery birds of spring.
This event is held outside. It will be modified or canceled due to inclement weather or poor walking conditions.

Limited space | Registration opens on May 1st and will close on July 14th or earlier if capacity is reached

Nature Walk: Full Moon with Bats | Registration Required
2026-09-27 18:30 - 20:00 (America/Denver) | Schweiger Ranch, 10822 S. Havana St., Lone Tree, CO, 80134, United States
Schweiger Ranch has teamed up with South Suburban Parks & Recreation District to provide free, guided walking tours led by professional naturalists from SSPRD. These tours offer insight and education into the natural environment on and around Schweiger Ranch, while offering a chance to get some fresh air and exercise.
Join us as we walk to a peaceful spot on the trail to experience the rising full moon. We’ll watch and listen for bats as they leave the barn at nightfall. We will return to the parking lot by the light of the full moon, using our human night vision.
This event is held outside and will be modified or canceled due to inclement weather or poor walking conditions.

Limited space | Registration opens on July 1st and will close on September 25th or earlier if capacity is reached
