APRIL 2024 PROGRAMS
at Fresh Pond Reservation
Offered by the Cambridge Water Department
Events at Fresh Pond Reservation are FREE and open to the public. Children are welcome in the company of an adult.
If registration is required, you will receive information on parking when you register. Registration information is in program announcements.
36th Annual Friends of Cambridge Athletics CityRun 5K
Sunday, April 7
Starts 9:00 am
Starts and Finishes on the service road behing the water treatment facility
250 Fresh Pond Parkway
Fresh Pond Reservation, Cambridge
This 5k loop around Fresh Pond takes place entirely within Fresh Pond Reservation, along historic trails and pathways and verdant woods. The run is all in nature – no cars!
Registration Fees
Race Fee: $35 (Day-of: $45)
College Students: $25 (Day-of: $35)
CRLS Students & Under-18: Free
Walkers $35
Charitable Fund Raiser Race
Fees benefit Friends of Cambridge Athletics, a 501(c)(3) supporting student athletes and teams at CRLS and providing scholarships to deserving scholar athletes, and the Andrea Harvey Memorial Fund, a non-profit advancing education and raising domestic violence awareness and offering scholarships to CRLS students.
Total Eclipse of the Park
Monday, April 8
2:00 to 4:40pm
Meets at Kingsley Park
250 Fresh Pond Parkway
Fresh Pond Reservation, Cambridge
93.1% of the sun will be covered up at exactly 3:29pm, join us for a Solar Eclipse viewing party to experience something that won’t hit Cambridge with this magnitude again until 2079! Festivities include live music by Trail Mix from 2:30-4:30pm, free commemorative solar eclipse glasses (ISO safety certified), and interactive displays and experiments. Bring your own chair or blanket if you want to sit back and relax, and enjoy the party with your community and feel the wonder of a near-total solar eclipse. Info at: https://www.cambridgema.gov/citycalendar/view.aspx?guid=ffba9e20cd2b4887a35875a7a3992fca
In the coming month more programs will be scheduled, and programs will be posted here.
Stay tuned!
***THE RESERVATION IS OPEN TO THE PUBLIC FROM DAWN TO DUSK!***
The Ranger Station and public restrooms are now open from 7 am to 7 pm. In addition, portable restrooms are available in the parking lots.
For questions about Friends of Fresh Pond Reservation, send an email to friendsoffreshpond@yahoo.com
MEMBERSHIPS AND DONATIONS
Although Friends of Fresh Pond Reservation is an all-volunteer organization, we do rely on contributions for some of our activities. These include paying professionals to lead special programs, maintaining this website, and buying supplies for our conservation work on the Reservation.
Membership fees are $10 per year, retroactive to January 1. If you would like to join us, please mail a check made out to Friends of Fresh Pond Reservation to the address below. If you care to make an additional donation, we thank you, and promise to put it to good use.
Friends of Fresh Pond Reservation
31 Mount Pleasant Street
Cambridge MA 02140-2613
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