Events

Trade shopping lines for tree lines! Celebrate the season with Gateway Nature Preserve’s annual post-Thanksgiving bird walk on Friday, November 28 from 10-11:30am. Together we’ll stroll the paved and wooded trails, spotting and learning about the birds that call our area home in early winter. This event is a collaboration with Forsyth Audubon and Doug DeNeve will be leading us on this adventure.

We need your help at the Gateway Nature Preserve!

We have two volunteer days coming up this winter: November 22 and December 13 from 10am-12pm. Volunteer work can include weed removal, some digging, invasive species removal, planting, etc. We’ll have the tools needed. Registration is required and the mandatory volunteer waiver included below needs to be signed before the event. Come help us maintain the meadow, forest discovery trail, and other areas around the preserve to continue restoring natural flora and fauna habitat as well as a space for community to enjoy the outdoors. 

Join artist Carolina Corona (Corona Fine Art/Gateway Nature Preserve) for a special BIPOC only Nature journaling session. This session will last 1hr and 15 mins and will allow us to focus our attention in nature and explore the different areas the Gateway Nature Preserve has to offer. We will be doing a combination of sketching and writing with different prompts.

The last 45 mins will be led by Holistic Psychotherapist Andrea Cole (Honor Your Presence), she will be offering a meditation and sound healing to help us relax in nature. Park and meet at Family Services at 1200 S. Broad St. From there we will walk together to our first location where we will start our nature journaling journey. We have a confirmed rain location at 220 E Sprague St, Winston-Salem, NC 27127.

We also will be raffling off a basket donated by Mast General Store. This basket includes all kinds of outdoor goodies and a $25 gift card! To enter this raffle you will need to complete the following survey and attend the event. There will also be a short (5 mins.) in person survey at the end of our event.