Be A Junior Ranger

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Kids as carpenters

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Upon your arrival at the fort, request a Junior Ranger booklet from an Interpreter dressed in period clothing. Visit the park, experience the fort using the booklet, complete the pages for your age group and receive a Junior Ranger Badge.

 
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Junior Ranger Day banner

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National Junior Ranger Day Celebrate National Junior Ranger Day by learning why national parks matter and how you can be a part of the team that helps keep parks healthy.
 
Two children working on activities in a Junior Ranger book
Two children working on activities in a Junior Ranger book.

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Junior Ranger Online Find interactive and printable Junior Ranger activities.
 
Blank arrowhead where you can design your own park logo
Blank arrowhead where you can design your own park logo

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Make your Own Park and Logo Design your own park logo on your own arrowhead.
 
Game Board labelled Find Your Park with a Start and Finish
Game Board

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Games and Challenges Test your knowledge or learn a little more about parks with a series of games and challenges.
 
Junior Ranger Archeology Book showing a child with a trowel digging.
Junior Ranger Archeology Book showing a child with a trowel digging.

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Become a Junior Archeologist Dig into the activities and puzzles to explore ways that archeologists make interpretations from evidence.
 
Lucy the Listening Owl
Lucy the Listening Owl

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Become a Junior Ranger Sounds Explorer
  • Explore sounds you hear in parks.
  • Learn the science of sound and why sound is important to parks.
  • Protect sounds you hear in parks and at home.

Last updated: April 1, 2021

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35110 State Highway 194
La Junta, CO 81050

Phone:

719 383-5010

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