EarthFest 2025

2025 Theme: Restoring Oak Savanna for Red-Headed Woodpeckers.

Join in the 42nd annual celebration of spring at the park. All ages are welcome. Pick and choose from activities or come to them all. For a description of each activity, please visit the Wild River State Park event calendar. This is a free park entrance day.

• 7:30–9 a.m., Bird Walk, Meet at Trail Center
• 9:15–10 a.m., Storytime and Craft, Trail Center
• 10 am–noon, Woodpecker Walk and Talk, Meet at Trail Center
• Noon–5 p.m., Earth Day Sound Garden, Outside the Visitor Center
• 1–2 p.m., Keynote presentation by poet and essayist Laurie Allmann; What Fills the Open Space: Savanna Stories, Visitor Center
• 2–2:15 p.m., Oak Savanna Restoration at Wild River, Visitor Center
• 3–5 p.m., Oak Savanna Stewardship Projects, Meet at the Trail Center