Live animals, kids’ activities, crafts, food & live music
Sunday, April 26, 2026; Free Admission; 11 am to 5 pm
Watching Reservation Loop in Mountainside; No pets please
Event Participants
- Crash the Party – Live Music
- Tenafly Nature Center – Live Birds of Prey
- Howling Woods Farm – Live Wolf Dog Demonstration
- Dinosaurs Arise LLC – Dinosaur Education & Entertainment
- Unique Creatures
- Swift Farms Petting Zoo
- Beyond the Bug
- Child’s Play Obstacle Course
- Seashore Amusements
- Electric Vehicle Association
Demonstrators and Vendors
- Adventure Aquarium
- Toadshade Wildflower Farm
- Rutgers Urban Forestry Program
- Citizen’s Climate Lobby
- River & Wild Books
- Friends of Great Swamp
- NY/NJ Trail Conference
- Wagner Farm Arboretum
- Bridge of Faith African Crafts
- Trail Bound Project
- Earth Kind Market
- Artist Ami Dobelle
- Roots & River Terrariums
- Union County Watershed Ambassador
- Reeves Reed Arboretum
- Hackensack River Keeper
- Paws, Wings & Scales
- Sierra Club
- Lee’s Bees
- Fior Solar
- Naked Botanicals
- Pua – Skin
- New Jersey Native Plant Society
- USDA Wildlife Services
- Paper Pie Books
- Union County 4-H Tree Stewards
- Rutgers Cooperative Extension Master Gardeners
- Mountainside Fire Department
- NJ Forest Fire Service