Forest Festival 2025
The San Gorgonio Wilderness Association’s Forest Festival, a free, family-friendly celebration of forests and the outdoors, will be presented 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday, July 19, at the Barton Flats Visitor Center on Highway 38, about seven miles east of Angelus Oaks.
The event will include opportunities to use a crosscut saw to create a “tree cookie” that will be branded with U.S. Forest Service and Smokey Bear logos, pan for gold and make a nature craft.
Visitors also can learn about the work of Friends of Big Bear Valley and their eagle cam; learn what it takes to serve on a search-and-rescue team; hear what various outdoor and conservation groups do to protect natural resources; and learn about the history of Serrano Indians in the San Bernardino Mountains.
There also will be opportunities to visit with San Gorgonio Wilderness Association members who patrol and maintain trails in the San Gorgonio and Cucamonga wilderness areas and provide interpretive programs.
Smokey Bear will make appearances throughout the day, and San Gorgonio Wilderness Association musicians will perform, according to a news release.
Snacks and beverages will be available.
San Gorgonio Wilderness Association is a nonprofit organization that works with the U.S. Forest Service to protect the forest in and around the San Gorgonio Wilderness and Cucamonga Wilderness and educates the public about this natural resource.
Every year San Gorgonio Wilderness Association volunteers donate thousands of hours to the San Bernardino National Forest in a variety of activities, including interacting with the public on wilderness trails and at interpretive programs, clearing fallen trees that block trails and repairing damaged trail tread and removing illegal fire rings in wilderness areas, according to the news release.
