Winter is for Winning! Win a $100 Montgomery Parks Gift Card!

To celebrate the opening of our Winter Programs and Classes, Montgomery Parks is hosting its first "Come Play in the Parks" Facebook Sweepstakes. Just like Montgomery Parks Facebook page for a chance to win a $100 Montgomery Parks' Gift Card. 

SILVER SPRING, MD—Montgomery Parks, part of the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission, has hundreds of great classes, programs and special events lined up this winter promoting an active, healthy lifestyle. All of the offerings are outlined in the Winter 2013 – 14 Program Guide.  

Whether you’re looking to reconnect with nature, sharpen your ice skating skills or spend time with your family at a Nature Center campfire or hike, you’re likely to find something that’s just right from our winter line-up. And to entice you even further, we are giving away a $100 Parks Gift Card (that can be used towards classes, programs and special events) in our “Come Play in the Parks” Facebook Sweepstakes. All you have to do is like Montgomery Parks Facebook page any time in November to enter. Visit www.Facebook.com/MontgomeryParks for details.

Here are just a few examples of what the $100 can be used towards:

• Children’s Programs: Nature storytimes and classes, tyke hikes, scavenger hunts, nature-themed crafts, campfires and more
• Adult Programs:

• Cooking classes on “Season-Spanning Soups,” and “Seasonal Sides”(featuring vegetarian, vegan and dairy-free recipes)
• Botanical fine arts and crafts classes, including “Calligraphy for Botanicals,” “Shading Basics,” and “Holiday Centerpiece”
• Nature courses including: “Winter Birding at Black Hill,” “Trees in Winter,” and Wild Montgomery programs such as hikes on the C&O Canal towpath and the Seneca Creek Greenway trail.

All winter programs, classes and special events are listed in the Winter 2013- 14 Montgomery County Recreation and Park Program Guide. The Guide is available online at www.MontgomeryParks.org/Guide.  Print copies are available free of charge at select Montgomery Parks facilities, Montgomery County Recreation centers, government buildings and libraries while supplies last. Mail subscriptions for all five Guides are available for $5. To subscribe, please visit https://recweb.montgomerycountymd.gov/Memberships/Memberships.asp

About the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission Montgomery Parks

Montgomery Parks manages more than 35,000 acres of parkland, consisting of 418 parks. Montgomery Parks is a department of the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission (M-NCPPC), a bi-county agency established in 1927 to steward public land. The M-NCPPC has been nationally recognized for its high quality parks and recreation services and is regarded as a national model by other parks systems. www.montgomeryparks.org

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