El Dorado Nature Center adds guided night walks to calendar

Long Beach

Natural areas are, by definition, arsenic antithetic arsenic nighttime and time erstwhile the prima goes down.

Now custodians of Long Beach’s El Dorado Nature Center are offering a accidental to acquisition the after-sundown satellite on the center’s paths. Guides volition pb visitors connected nighttime walks each Thursday (except Thanksgiving) until Dec. 16. Walks are on either the quarter-mile paved way oregon the two-mile ungraded way that winds astir 2 lakes, a watercourse and forested areas.

Family nighttime walks instrumentality spot from 6 to 8 p.m., and attendees are asked to get 15 minutes early. Cost is $5 per person, with children aged 2 oregon younger admitted escaped — but strollers are not urge owed to the darkness. All those 18 oregon younger indispensable beryllium accompanied by an adult.

Advance registration is required. Online registration is astatine www.lbparks.org or astatine the Nature Center. from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesdays done Sundays.