This month, we’ll explore the wet and low lying places around Big Beaver Pond! Join us to find evidence of beavers and learn more about these incredible ecosystem engineers.

Join us for a hearty hike to the top of Sugarloaf for a calm September sunset. The challenging hike up is rewarded with a stunning summit view of the San Juan Islands and Olympic Mountains.

Join staff and volunteers from the Washington Trails Association to learn the latest on sustainable recreation on multi use trails and how to use WTA's free resources to help! 

Drop in to the Forest Discovery Center and learn about one of the many ways to create art from nature! Try out some botanical inks, learn how to make them at home, and perhaps get some inspiration for creating your own nature-infused art.

Join us for our monthly senior hike in the ACFL!

Skagit Conservation's Forestry and Wildfire Resilience teams will be presenting on forest and fire ecology along with current wildfire season conditions in Western WA and the Anacortes area.

Drop in to the Forest Discovery Center for our monthly Art in Nature program!

Libraries love lakes, and so do the Friends of the ACFL! Throughout the month of July, we are partnering with the Anacortes Library and Skagit County Public Works to celebrate the lakes of Fidalgo Island. Join us as we tread on trails less-travelled and learn why these lakes are the backbone of our community forest lands.

Explore the world of tiny creatures that inhabit our local lakes! Our friends from Skagit County Public Works and the Friends of the Anacortes Community Forest Lands will bring crawly critters found in macroinvertebrate surveys and equipment to view them up close. All ages are welcome!

Join us for a storytime in the Park with Anacortes Public Library!

Join us on our monthly gentle hike in the ACFL!

Earmarked as a scenic corridor and critical water supply for early Anacortans, today Heart Lake’s shores support an incredible diversity of old growth and wetland habitats. Since this hike is longer and goes over more varied terrain than our usual programs, hiking poles are recommended.

Join us for our monthly all ages Art in Nature drop in program in our Forest Discovery Center!

Join us to learn from local water quality experts about the health of our beloved local waterways and what we each can do to protect them!

Libraries love lakes, and so do the Friends of the ACFL! Throughout the month of July, we are partnering with the Anacortes Library and Skagit County Public Works to celebrate the lakes of Fidalgo Island. Join us as we tread on trails less-travelled and learn why these lakes are the backbone of our community forest lands.

Drop in to the Forest Discovery Center between 10 am and 1 pm on Saturday, June 27th to make collage animals with us!

✓ 10AM – 5 PM, Saturday June 27, 2026 (Last Saturday in June)

✓ Giant sidewalk sale in Downtown Anacortes

✓ Amazing deals on merchandise along Commercial Avenue and side streets

✓ Food and drink specials in local restaurants

✓ It’s a festive kickoff for the summer season!

This month, we’ll explore the mysteries of the old-growth forest at the south end of Heart Lake! Wander through towering stands of Douglas-fir and western redcedar, and appreciate the work of the community that protected them.

Join Friends of the ACFL and certified mindfulness teacher Karissa Sellman, as we take a gentle, meditative approach to being with nature.

This month, join Nichole Kean (Rainflower Designs) and learn all about creating habitat for native backyard pollinators in this hands-on workshop!

Join Friends of the ACFL for our June family hike as we search for spring flowers and the very special creatures that pollinate them. During this celebration of teamwork in the forest, we’ll learn about why flowers and pollinators depend on each other, and how this relationship has shaped individual species and the forest as a whole. 

Join Friends of the ACFL and the City of Anacortes Parks team for a National Trails Day work party in the ACFL!

Celebrate the return of spring with a bracing hike through Sugarloaf’s flowering meadows! Join Friends of the Forest as we explore the many spring flowers that call the ACFL home (and the view will be nice, too.)

Drop in to the Forest Discovery Center to make hammered flower art with us!

This month, we’ll look for spring wildflowers in the Little Cranberry Lake burn zone!

Bring your homeschooler to the ACFL to explore the forest by using their senses, making observations and practicing other science skills!

Bring your homeschooler to the ACFL to explore the forest by using their senses, making observations and practicing other science skills!

Join Friends of the ACFL for our May family hike to celebrate our birds and the migrations they make to join us each springtime. During this bird bonanza, we’ll look and listen for some of our common forest birds, learn about why and how birds move during the year, and step into the shoes (or rather wings) of our feathered friends to play our own migration game.

Join us in the Forest Discovery Center during The Anacortes Earth Day Festival and make a pollinator puddler with us!