Read with a Ranger at the Natchez Trace Parkway Visitor Center Saturday, May 14, 2016

Date: May 2, 2016
Contact: Kristin Schwarz, [phone]

TUPELO, MS:The Natchez Trace Parkway invites children and their families to come and enjoy a "Noisy Bird Sing-Along" as part of the Read with a Ranger program. The program starts at 10:00 am on Saturday, May 14, 2016 at the Parkway Visitor Center.Read with a Ranger is a new 45-minute program that is most appropriate for ages six and under but all ages are welcome. Visitors can listen to a story, participate in a fun activity, and go on an optional quarter-mile hike. The program will feature a new story on the secondSaturdayof the month from April through September.

In the "Noisy Bird Sing-Along," you can listen to a symphony of bird calls and find out how you can sound like them too! Visitors of all ages will find themselves calling out "Who Cooks for You" just like the Barred Owl.

This program is free to the public. The Visitor Center is located at milepost 266 on the Natchez Trace Parkway, near Tupelo, Mississippi. For additional information, please call [phone]. 

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