Three Rivers' Outdoor Recreation School

🥇🥈🥉 The ORS Olympics continue this week with a grueling event: the Target Carry. Setting up our archery ranges requires strength and focus--look at that exemplary form!

🏹 On point! One of our archers absolutely crushed the playing card challenge this week at Intro to Archery Camp!

Summer Camp Memory Alert: practicing fire building skills at Camping Skills Camp was lit 🔥

Done a paddle program with us recently and looking for more time on the water? Explore your favorite lake in the Three Rivers Park District with a rental canoe, kayak and stand-up paddleboard:

Watercraft Rentals | Three Rivers Park District Enjoy the land of 10,000 lakes with the variety of watercraft rentals that Three Rivers Park District offers! Rent kayaks, canoes, paddleboats and much more.

Check out one of our upcoming clubs and fill your fall with some time for yourself in the outdoors: https://bit.ly/46FgswK

🍂 Trails Club for Women
🍂 Adapted Mountain Biking Club
🍂 GreenFit Club: Nordic Walking
🍂 Dryland Cross-country Ski Training Club
🍂 Fall Hiking Club

🥇🥈🥉 Reporting live from the ORS Olympics: today's featured event is Chalk Art. The staff athletes have really had quite the challenge this summer competing with the rain, but their penmanship is impeccable.

Thanks for exploring with us Project Soar MN!

Yes Chef! 🤌

Check out this Camping Skills Camp menu this week.

Join us this Saturday with a Three Rivers Park District historical interpreter to explore the hidden stories of Carver Park and Lake Zumbra while kayaking. Discover clues to the geology, natural history and archaeology of the lake. Previous kayaking experience required.

Register here: https://bit.ly/3yl3s2B

Join us on August 18th at Bryant Lake Regional Park for Family Fishing! Learn about types of fish, preparing equipment, bait and handling of fish once they are caught.

🎣 Register here: https://bit.ly/4ddBXHf

We had a BEAUTIFUL day out at Fish Lake Regional Park for a free Summer Sampler! We hosted stand-up paddle boarding mini lessons and log rolling. 🤙

Summer Memory Alert: In addition to honing their compound bow skills and trying recurve and long bows, our Advanced Archers got a chance to see and learn about crossbows at camp this summer!

Check out our 50+ Adventure programs where health, fitness and attitude are more relevant than age. Spend a summer evening on scenic Medicine Lake while taking in the colors of the sunset.

🌅 Register here: https://bit.ly/4fmuaIR

This year we are hosting an Advanced Communications Workshop, an instructor level training in partnership with an instructor from the American Canoe Association. The course will take place in kayaks for our two in person days (September 21st and 22nd) at French and Fish Parks with a zoom meeting on the evening of September 17th. We are excited to offer this opportunity to develop skills and methods to address the needs of individuals with speech and language impairments, hearing impairments or deafness and visual impairments or blindness.

📌More information and registration here: https://bit.ly/4caPFcy

Here at the Outdoor Recreation School, we have our own Olympic events, such as: the PFD carry! How many life jackets can you carry in one go?

Join us on August 30th as we partner with the Historical Interpretation team to explore the hidden stories of Lake Auburn while canoeing. Paddle with a guide to discover clues to the geology, natural history and archaeology of the lake. Previous paddling experience required. Equipment is provided.

🛶 Reservations are required by two days prior: https://bit.ly/3S9HN3S

We've been having a blast on the water this summer at our Paddle Palooza Camps!

🦟 The unofficial mascot of the Elm Creek Archery range this year 🦟

Our September programs are open for registration--archery, canoeing, fly fishing and more!

📌Check them out: https://bit.ly/recreation-programs-sept

Looking to hone your mountain biking skills? Check out our 2-day clinic next month at Carver Park Reserve! Whether you are new to mountain biking or an experienced rider, learning the fundamental skills will take your riding to the next level, safely and with confidence.

Clinic is led by BICP Certified Skills instructors that have a passion for sharing their knowledge, teaching and developing others in partnership with the Loppet Foundation.

🚵 Register here today: https://bit.ly/mtn-bike-skills-carver

A couple of spots still available!

Join the Three Rivers' Outdoor Recreation School staff this Sunday as they help you adapt a boat to your body and abilities and then take to Cleary Lake! Start on land for individualized adaptations to boats and paddles and prepare to get on the water. Designed for paddlers with disabilities. All equipment, including high-back seats with side supports and extra staff provided.

Register here today: https://bit.ly/4ffwiSy

Join us at Murphy-Hanrehan Park Reserve on August 18th!

Join the Three Rivers' Outdoor Recreation School and go on a geocaching adventure for all things buggy! Use GPS technology to explore the park. Along the way, you will learn about bugs in Minnesota and find silly bug surprises and treasure. Reservations required by two days prior.

🐝🦋🐞Register here: https://bit.ly/bugs-cache-murphy

We’re out at Midsummer Festival at Cedar Lake Farm Regional Park today with free, drop-in archery, paddling and fishing. Come on out! We’re here 10am-4pm.

🌈Arrow repair vibes🌈

Have you checked out our upcoming programs in August? Come paddle, fish, bike and log roll with us this summer! Our instructors are pretty fun to hang out with too...😁

https://threeriversparks.org/programs

Discovering the creatures of the lake at Nature & Adventure Camp earlier this month!

-With Richardson Nature Center-

Looking to canoe? We've got you covered! Check out one of our upcoming canoe programs at Fish Lake Regional Park:

🛶 July 27th, Family Canoeing
🛶 July 27th, Beginner Canoeing

Registration links in bio!

Rooted in the history of the logging era in the Midwest, log rolling is both safe and fun! Check out one of our upcoming KidSplash programs for 10-15 years olds:

July 19 at Fish Lake Regional Park: https://bit.ly/467yuqZ
July 26 at Bryant Lake Regional Park: https://bit.ly/3zLUlIE

Take your riding skills to the next level this month! You’ll practice essential riding techniques, including body and bike position, shifting, braking, climbing, descending and navigating minor obstacles on the trail. Our instructors will go over important communication skills and mountain biking trail etiquette with the aim of keeping multi-use trails safe and accessible for everyone. This class is ideal for those who are already comfortable riding a bike on flat and even terrain looking to advance their skills and technique.

🚵‍♀️Register here for this 2-day clinic: https://bit.ly/3XYyzLN