Getting Started
It’s that time of year again! The time to get outdoors, soak in the sun’s rays, and enjoy the wonders of nature here in York County by participating in this year’s GO York program – Get Outdoors and Be Creative! You may be familiar with last year’s award-winning program – Catch the Activity Bug.
A few changes have been made to make this year’s program – Get Outdoors and Be Creative! – even more challenging and fun.
Here’s how it works: Thirty creativity stations – a wooden marker post – have been secured in parks and along trails throughout York County. Your job is to find as many of these creativity stations as possible by using clues available in your Get Outdoors and Be Creative! Sketch Book. The Sketch Books are available at any branch of the York County Library System (You can find locations here). Each creativity station links to a creative activity and page within your Sketch Book. Once you locate the station, use a crayon to rub the unique etching attached there to the tear-out pages in your Sketch Book. This proves that you found the creativity station and also is your key to winning some great prizes (see the inside back cover for more information).
In addition, we have created this website – www.goyork.org – where you can check to make sure that a creativity station is available, track your progress in finding stations, access new features of the program, tell us about any issues, or share exciting stories about your adventures.
Here are a few important things to remember:
- Make sure that you correctly match each creativity station rubbing to the appropriate box on the tear-out pages.
- Write down the code that you find at each creativity station. It can be used to access a new and exciting program feature found only at www.goyork.org.
- This website – www.goyork.org – is available to help with your adventures. Make sure that you use it regularly to check on the status of creativity stations and track your progress. You can also let us know if a creativity station has been damaged, or to just share any comments you may have.
- Always remember to be respectful of parks and trails, the outdoors, and people around you!
The Get Outdoors and Be Creative! program officially begins Saturday, June 6, and ends on Labor Day, September 7. That means that you have three months to find all thirty creativity stations! So, get outdoors, be creative, and have fun this summer!
Healthy Lifestyles Task Force of the Healthy York County Coalition
Hanover Area Family YMCA
Hanover Hospital
Northeastern School District
PA Dept. of Conservation & Natural Resources
WellSpan Health
Windsor Area Recreation Commission
YMCA of York and York County
YorkArts
York City Health Bureau
York College of PA, Nursing Dept.
York County Library System
York County Parks