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Date: September 14, 2024
|Time: 9:00am
|End Date: September 14, 2024
|End Time: 10:30am

Wild Wonderful: Guided Interpretive Walk

September 14 | 9am-10:30am | High Plains Environmental Center | 2698 Bluestem Willow Drive  

High Plains Environmental Center features an urban environmental park comprised of 76 acres of land and 3 miles of trails that surround two lakes covering an additional 200 acres.   

Take advantage during their Guided Interpretive Walk to meet this amazing organization largely responsible for Centerra’s Certified Wild accreditation. This fun and casual interpretive walk around Houts Reservoir and Equalizer Lake is guided by our Ecological Restoration crew, who are also Certified Interpretive Trail Guides! 

Learn about the restoration work that has been accomplished, the wildlife that lives here, and HPEC’s role of ongoing stewardship to preserve our wildlife habitat. 

Wander the demonstration gardens that showcase over 80 native plants species, habitat restoration, and water conservation.  The HPEC nursery and greenhouses produce native plants which are available to the public through their ongoing plant sales, special savings will apply over the weekend only!  

What might you see? Native wildflowers, shrubs and grasses, butterflies, native bees, dragonflies and damselflies, songbirds, raptors, waterfowl and the occasional jumping fish! 

Please bring a water bottle, hat, binoculars and sunscreen. 

Centerra invites the community to get ready for Wild Wonderful Weekend, the weekend-long celebration of Colorado’s first Certified Wild Community – the Centerra master-planned community in Loveland.   

Celebrate with three-days of all things wild, wonderful and delicious. With family-friendly activities that will engage your imagination, tickle your taste buds and give you the chance to enjoy the parks, trails, gardens and orchards of Centerra with friends and neighbors. 

Complete Weekend of WILD Fun Schedule: 

All Weekend | Centerra Scavenger Hunt 

All Weekend | Wild Passport Program 

Saturday, September 14 

9am – 10:30am | High Plains Environmental Center Interpretive Walk 

9am – 12pm | High Plains Environmental Center Plant Sale 

10am-12pm   | Chapungu Garden Walk 

10am – 1pm | Wild Zone 

4pm – 7pm | Harvest Jamboree  

Sunday, September 15 

7am and 9am Classes | Goat Yoga  

11am – 1:30pm | Farm to Table Brunch 

Wild Wonderful Weekend is brought to you by Centerra Engagement Assembly and is made possible by participating partners such as Townsquare Media, Visit Loveland, The Marketplace at Centerra, First National Bank of Omaha, Chapungu Sculpture Park, The Promenade Shops at Centerra and McWhinney. 

Centerra’s long‐term commitment to being a wildlife‐friendly community, is possible with help from our community partner High Plains Environmental Center and includes an action plan for sustainability and progressive community education. Together habitat for wildlife is preserved, open space is restored and maintained, and sustainable development and environment practices occur daily.   

For more information and details on all the WWW events, visit https://www.centerra.com/wild-wonderful-weekend/  or email centerra@coherelife.com. 

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