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Kids Hike Highlands
Written By: Winter Gary-Highlands Biological Foundation | Issue: June 2023
Hiking around Highlands is fun. It’s even more exciting when it’s a competition.
KHH Passport; purple mailbox along HPG’s Mill Creek trail
Looking for a fun, engaging way to explore Highlands with your family? The Kids Hike Highlands trail passport program has been refreshed for the 2023 season, and it may be just what you are looking for!
This program was initiated by the Highlands Plateau Greenway in 2018 as a way to encourage families to explore the greenway’s network of community trails and see the Plateau’s natural beauty through a town-wide scavenger hunt to find purple mailboxes equipped with kid-oriented nature riddles.
Now at the program’s 5th anniversary, the Highlands Biological Foundation is continuing the program and has updated the riddles for the 2023 season.
So, how does it work? The Kids Hike Highlands passport map provides an itinerary of routes throughout the greenway’s trails. The four routes include Highlands-Cashiers Land Trust’s Sunset Rock trail, the Highlands Biological Station’s Highlands Botanical Garden trail, the Mill Creek Woods trail, and The Bascom’s trail.
On each trail, labeled in purple on the map, there is a riddle station that must be found. This station will be a purple mailbox, and within it is a riddle that the passport holder must solve. Write the answer in the corresponding box on the map, and once all four have been solved, participants may pick up a special prize located at either the Highlands Chamber of Commerce and Visitors Center, Highlands Recreation Center, Hudson Library, or The Bascom.
And here’s a hint: The prize is thanks to Kilwins Highlands!
Interested in participating? You can pick up a copy of the Kids Hike Highlands passport map at one of the four prize locations or you can download a copy at highlandsbiological.org.
