Nature Every Month: Haunted Trail Hike

Join Soul Trak in a Trash4Treats program and Haunted Trail Hike in Southeast DC! All ages welcome! What to Expect: Join Soul Trak to cleanup along Fort Stanton Park in Southeast DC and exchange Trash4Treats on the George Washington Carver Trail! This section of forest showcases the beauty and diversity of some of DC's greatest green spaces right here in Ward 8. Come dressed in your Halloween costumes and pickup trash, then pass through the haunted forest to collect your treats, and enter your costume to win a prize in the costume contest, too! Families are encouraged! Please include everyone in your party when registering. All minors must attend with an adult. We also encourage families to check out the museum after the hike. Are you a college student looking to participate? Sign up for a "Student Volunteer" ticket and help us decorate and haunt the trail as we pass out candy to the families! Nature Every Month is Soul Trak Outdoors’ year-round series creating accessible opportunities for our community to get outside, try something new, and build a deeper connection with nature. No experience necessary. Just come ready to spend a day outside with us. Transport Assistance Families If you foresee transportation as a barrier to getting your family to this event, select the General - Uber Voucher ticket option for all family members. You will receive an Uber voucher towards the cost of your family's rideshare to/from the event. Vouchers can only be used for trips to/from the event destination on the day of the event. One voucher will be provided to each family, regardless of how many of this ticket type are selected. Howard Students Soul Trak is providing a shuttle from Howard University to the event as well as a return shuttle to campus. Please register for the Student Volunteer - Shuttle from HU ticket to reserve a spot on the shuttle bus. What to Bring: Yourself in-costume! Weather appropriate layers Water bottle About the trail: George Washington Carver (1864 –1943), was an African-American scientist, naturalist and professor who served as chairman of the Agriculture Department of the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama. He was an early promoter of cover crops and organic fertilizers, and promoted crops, like peanuts and sweet potatoes, that could provide affordable nutrition and restore soil depleted by decades of cotton growing. Carver was also an avid naturalist who constantly observed and recorded the natural world around him. The trail, created in the 1990s as a project of the Anacostia Community Museum , honors Dr. Carver’s legacy of reverence for nature and humans’ reliance upon it. Source: Ward 8 Woods