It’s Spring--- Wake Up the Bears!

HI!

Here's a quote from our Roxborough Park newsletter, the Echoes.


According to a Native American legend, sleeping bears begin to stir when they hear spring’s first sharp crack of thunder. Roxborough’s bears always need additional encouragement after their long winter’s nap. At 1 pm on Saturday and Sunday, June 13-14, children and adults will join together to bang pans, blow whistles and break up the sleeping bears’ camp in Haney Park. Grumpy bears and happy fairgoers will then parade through the park filled with booths bursting with art and crafts.

But you have to wonder. June 13th seems like middle of Summer to me, and I'd expect the bears to be awake and walking around long before then. Checking it out, CO Department of Wildlife says that hibernation for bears runs from mid-November to March .......

So that's why we see these signs at the entrance to Roxborough Park!

Yeah, Right!

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Cheers!