HILLSIDE FESTIVAL 2024
May 4-5, 2024
El Cerrito’s tenth Hillside Festival will be Saturday and Sunday, May 4-5, 2024!
Enjoy the Hillside Festival, with more than a dozen hikes and other events throughout El Cerrito’s 100-acre Hillside Natural Area. The festival, put on by El Cerrito Trail Trekkers and co-sponsored by the city’s Environmental Quality Committee, is free.
For the full schedule with an accompanying map to all events, click on the link below!
Enjoy the Hillside Festival, with more than a dozen hikes and other events throughout El Cerrito’s 100-acre Hillside Natural Area. The festival, put on by El Cerrito Trail Trekkers and co-sponsored by the city’s Environmental Quality Committee, is free.
For the full schedule with an accompanying map to all events, click on the link below!
| Hillside Festival 2024 Trifold.pdf |
Photo: Children explore the marvel and mystery of rocks in our popular Rockhound event. Credit: Dave Weinstein
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Hikes start from several trailheads and touch on such subjects as native flora and fauna, insects, trees, geology and history, poetry, fire safety and habitat restoration. Events appeal to everyone from children to seasoned naturalists.
Among events this year will be two art-making sessions for children programs run by artist Lucy Ames. We are adding a second session because last year’s event proved so popular. Plus, Audrey Liese will run a crafts-making event tied to the plants of the Hillside. Always popular is Alan Siegel’s edible and medicinal plants walk, and Eddie Dunbar’s insect hike. We will also have an event focused on a “bioblitz,” studying and charting native flora and fauna. Our annual haiku contest, with poems submitted before the festival, and readings along the trail, is also a popular feature. |
Want to learn more – or are you interested in participating as a leader or volunteer?
Contact [email protected].
Contact [email protected].
Page top image: Neil Patterson and Demetrius Buchanan spot Bay Area sights from the Hillside Natural Area
Photo and identifications utilized with parental permission
Photo and identifications utilized with parental permission