Skip to content

Shore & Environment

Pickering Creek Offers an Evening Canoe Paddle for Fall Color Thursday

The Audubon center's canoe paddle on Pickering Creek runs 5 to 6:30 p.m. Oct. 15 and costs $15 a person, with life jackets and paddles provided. Sign up on the center's programs page; children must be at least 5 and with an adult.

Canoes on a quiet tidal creek lined with autumn trees at dusk
AI-generated illustration; not a photograph.

EASTON, MARYLAND — Pickering Creek Audubon Center is taking paddlers out on Pickering Creek for an evening of fall color on Thursday, Oct. 15, from 5 to 6:30 p.m.

The leaf-peeping canoe paddle costs $15 per person. Life jackets and paddles are provided. Children must be at least 5 years old and must be accompanied by an adult. Registration is through the center's programs page.

The center's listing says paddlers can watch autumn color come into the forest on both sides of the creek as sunset approaches, and keep an eye out for herons and eagles.

Pickering Creek Audubon Center is at 11450 Audubon Lane in Easton. From Route 50 at the Easton Municipal Airport, the center's directions turn left onto Airport Road, immediately right onto Route 662, Longwoods Road, for 2.8 miles, then left onto Sharp Road for 1.5 miles, then right to stay on Sharp Road for 1.2 miles. Pickering Creek is on the right; the parking area is 0.4 mile down the driveway. Questions go to the center at 410-822-4903.

The center also lists a free Trail Monitoring Day for volunteers Saturday, Oct. 17, from 10 a.m. to noon, and a Pickering Creek Nature Mystery scavenger hunt Sunday, Oct. 25, from noon to 2 p.m., costing $10 per group of up to five.

Source: Pickering Creek Audubon Center

Drawn from public records; drafted with AI and edited by Peter Gorman before publication.

Correction? Contact the editor.Our AI use

about 150 words

If the button fails, email news [at] talbotpatriot.com with the same fields.

Signed comments are held for review, then published. Obvious spam is rejected before it reaches the editor. Letters and comments.

No published comments yet.