Rain Barrel Demo/Raffle with Clean Valley Council

Rain Barrel Demo/Raffle with Clean Valley Council

  • Oct 14th: 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
  • Oct 14th: 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Participants will gather on the Wellness Patio to learn how to make a rain barrel out of a reused drum/barrel. Clean Valley Council staff will teach audience members how to successfully create a rain barrel to reduce water use! All...

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Bike Rodeo

  • Oct 14th: 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
  • Oct 15th: 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm

A bike rodeo is a skills and knowledge clinic for young bike riders, typically age 4-12. During this time the traffic garden that is available throughout GO Fest will have a volunteer on-hand to demonstrate skills and answer questions.

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Foam Rolling Clinic

  • Oct 15th: 11:00 am - 11:30 am

Join Bryan Swann, a certified Personal Trainer, for a foam rolling clinic! Using a foam roller is a good way to loosen up before a workout and reduce muscle soreness afterwards. What is foam rolling? Considered a self-myofascial release (SMR) technique,...

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Outdoor Skills: Knot Tying

Outdoor Skills: Knot Tying

  • Oct 15th: 12:30 pm - 2:30 pm

Knot tying is an important skill for anyone enjoying and exploring the outdoors. Learn about many different knots and their uses from the most simple knot to the most complex knot! Then practice your new skills with a relay race...

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GO Fest Pop-up Traffic Garden

GO Fest Pop-up Traffic Garden

RIDE Solutions and Pedal Safe Roanoke will host a Pop-Up Traffic Garden at GO Fest. A traffic garden is a mini-streetscape for kids (3 to 9 Y.O). Walk, bike, scoot, skate, or rollabout in a wheelchair to learn traffic safety...

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Litter Cleanup Scavenger Hunt

Litter Cleanup Scavenger Hunt

  • Oct 14th: 5:00 pm - 5:30 pm
  • Oct 14th: 1:00 pm - 1:30 pm
  • Oct 15th: 3:00 pm - 3:30 pm

Join Eco Maniac Company for a scavenger hunt for litter! You will have 20 minutes to collect as much litter as possible around the event area and then report back to the Eco Maniac Company tent to add up your...

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Local Bird Watching

Local Bird Watching

  • Oct 14th: 11:00 am - 1:00 pm

Learn about birds native to the Roanoke area. Develop skills for finding and identifying local birds and build an appreciation for the ways in which birds impact our ecosystem. Stop by at anytime during the session! 

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How to Be a Leave No Trace Champion

How to Be a Leave No Trace Champion

  • Oct 14th: 2:00 pm - 2:45 pm

Join Subaru/Leave No Trace Traveling Team members Becca & Luke for engaging discussion and activities that explore how to enjoy the outdoor spaces you love in an environmentally sustainable way. Ever wondered about ways to avoid disturbing wildlife or why...

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Tic-Tac-Toe Triple Crown Trivia

Tic-Tac-Toe Triple Crown Trivia

  • Oct 13th: 6:00 pm - 6:30 pm
  • Oct 14th: 2:00 pm - 2:30 pm
  • Oct 15th: 2:00 pm - 2:30 pm

Trivia with a twist! Test your knowledge of the Appalachian Trail, Pacific Crown Trail and the Continental Divide Trail. The Objective is to win the game of tic-tac-toe, but in order to do so you must answer the trivia questions...

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Young Women in the Outdoors

  • Oct 14th: 10:00 am - 3:00 pm

This is an opportunity for young women to get outdoors and get some experience in the conservation world with Appalachian Conservation Corps. We will be completing conservation projects in the George Washington & Jefferson National Forests on 10/14! We'll meet...

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Girl Scout information booth

Girl Scout information booth

Drop by the Girl Scout booth to learn more about the Girl Scout program (Outdoors, STEM, Entrepreneurship, & Life Skills), try Stick-It Archery and make tabletop s'mores!

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Disc Golf

Disc Golf

Learn the different type of Disc's and Plastics. How each one feels and flies differently. Try your hand at throwing the disc's in the baskets. Learn where in the Roanoke Valley you can play. Stop by the Play it Again...

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