JUNE IS GREAT OUTDOORS MONTH

JUNE 7, 2012 - JUNE IS GREAT OUTDOORS MONTH!

Get out and enjoy the grand weather that we are having in southeast Missouri.  You can take the dog, take a walk, go for a bike ride, or just sit in the yard and soak up some vitamin D (with sunscreen, please!).  Whatever you choose, enjoy the outdoors—here are a few ways to do so—close to home.

  

TRAIL OF TEARS STATE PARK IN CAPE COUNTY: 

3415-acres is a memorial to the Cherokee Indians

LAKE TRAIL-Length: 2.25 Miles

This picturesque trail runs along the shoreline of Lake Boutin and then loops around the basic campground, crossing valleys and ridges. Remnants of old homesteads may be seen with evidence of clearings, old roadbeds, a man-made pond and barbed wire fencing through trees. In some places, you may detect the rows of tulip poplars that were planted by park staff in the 1960s in an effort to reforest old farm fields. A rare plant, the pennywort, may be found on this trail early in the spring. A short section of the Lake Boutin Campground road is used as you travel the trail loop. 

CAPE GIRARDEAU CONSERVATION AND NATURE CENTER:

Facility includes trails, exhibits, an auditorium, classrooms, and a nature shop. 

The Cape Girardeau Conservation Nature Center is located within Cape Girardeau's North County Park and showcases the rich cultural history and diverse natural resources of Southeast Missouri.  The Nature Center features hands-on exhibits for all ages, a scientific research laboratory, freshwater aquariums, and an indoor wildlife viewing area.  There are miles of nature trails, sinkholes and deep hollows, the trails also connect to Wood Duck Swamp and Maple Hollow Trail.  Native plants featured in the nature center's landscape provide habitat for hummingbirds, butterflies and other wildlife species.  For more information about the Cape Girardeau Conservation Nature Center visit website. 

CAPE SPLASH

Complete with  a 700 ft. Lazy River, flume slides, swirl and leisure pool, a spray pad for the kids, bath house, changing facilities and lots of places to rest in the shade, you'll have a blast! Cape Splash will be open until September 3rd every day from 11 a.m.-7 p.m. 

CAPAHA PARK

There are city league and Capaha Baseball Team games at Capaha Park in Cape nearly every night.  Click here for the Capaha schedule.

The 10-hole disc golf course is often busy at Capaha…and now that the city has installed “t-boxes”…it is easier to determine the course direction and holes.  Fun exercise, and anyone can participate…you don’t have to be a pro.