National Grandparents Day is ready to take place once again Sunday at Scattering Fork Outdoor Center in Mexico and the community is invited to celebrate.
Scattering Fork, 15640 Audrain Road 815, …
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National Grandparents Day is ready to take place once again Sunday at Scattering Fork Outdoor Center in Mexico and the community is invited to celebrate.
Scattering Fork, 15640 Audrain Road 815, rural Mexico, will welcome guests from 2-5 p.m. as parents and grandparents can bring out their knee-high naturalists and friends to explore Scattering Fork’s fall woods.
People will be able to find fall mushrooms- puff balls and chicken of the woods - and many more.
Laura Worstell, owner and director of the Scattering Fork Outdoor Center, said the event has been going on since their business opened in 1992.
The center opened after Worstell’s daughter suggested an outdoor center would benefit Audrain County to encourage people to enjoy nature and be a part of it.
This weekend, families will have that opportunity with their grandparents.
“The second Sunday in September is National Grandparents Day, and I am a grandparent – and have been for a long time – and they need to enjoy their kids and grandchildren too,” Worstell said, noting any members of a family can come and enjoy the facility. She noted a number of animals that have been stuffed by taxidermists are also located inside the center to give kids a chance to explore various creatures such as bobcats and raccoons.
“It’s an interesting place to be,” Worstell said. “There is a lot of things to do.”
Worstell said one group can take either the longer (eight-tenth of a mile) or shorter tour trail through the grounds to start the day and another will follow after about an hour later.
People can pick up items along the trails and take them home.
Yearly, Worstell said that she usually entertains groups of 20 with two per event, but there have been three groups that have gone through in the past.
“The only thing that keeps them coming is rain,” Worstell said. “It’s supposed to rain on Saturday, but not on Sunday. That’s at least what’s forecast.”
They will be able to taste ripening Missouri’s native fruit - the paw paw - and enjoy some freshly baked paw paw cookies.
There will be deer rubs on young trees and for those feeling energetic, the challenge the Fork’s Earth Ball event.
Admission is free; $2 donations are welcome.
For more information, call (573) 581-3003.
