ARBOR DAY Celebration at Mission Trails Regional Park on Saturday, December 2nd at 9:00am! Help make a lasting impact on the environment and beautify the park! Meet at the East Fortuna Staging Area: • MTRP's tradition is to observe and celebrate Arbor Day in December, when our Southern California winter season provides the ideal planting conditions for young trees to take root. • The public is invited to meet at the East Fortuna Staging Area to take part in planting ten Coast Live Oak Trees - gloves and closed toes shoes recommended. • If you are interested in donating to help fund the trees or volunteering, please download the attached flyer or contact 619-668-3280.

Free Concert featuring Jim Earp, an award-winning fingerstyle guitarist, at 3:00pm on Sunday, December 3rd, 2017 Location: Visitor Center Theater The Mission Trails Regional Park Foundation invites the public to enjoy Sunday afternoon listening to Jim Earp, award-winning fingerstyle guitarist, singer and songwriter, applauded for his wonderful melodies, rhythms, Hawaiian technique, and tone. He describes his style as nouveau-Celtic-classical-folk. This return concert to MTRP will include holiday carols from his CDs. Seating is limited in the theater, no standing allowed inside or in doorways.

#GIVINGTUESDAY Consider lending your support today to San Diego’s open space natural resource! With your help, the Mission Trails Regional Park Foundation, in partnership with the City of San Diego, can continue to preserve and protect the natural environment of Mission Trails Regional Park and to provide and promote educational and recreational opportunities. To donate, go to: http://www.mtrp.org/donors Thank you so much for your support on GIVING TUESDAY!

Free Concert featuring "The El Cajon Music Masters Barbershop Harmony Chorus" at 3:00pm on Sunday, November 19, 2017 Location: Visitor Center Theater The Mission Trails Regional Park Foundation invites the public to enjoy Sunday afternoon listening to the El Cajon Music Masters Barbershop Harmony Chorus, who will perform at the park for the first time! Come hear a four-part a cappella harmony of old favorite songs. Seating is limited in the theater, no standing allowed inside or in doorways.

We will be working on the access trail into the Mission Trails Park BMX area located off the Deerfield BMX loop. This ongoing project consists of rehabilitating an existing 12' wide washed out access road and turning it into a safe, sustainable and flowy trail into the BMX area so that both bikers and hikers have an enjoyable and safe route up & down. We'll meet at the Deerfield circle cul de sac (just west of the Jackson dr parking lot on mission gorge road). Please RSVP so that we know how many tools to bring.

Due to Day Lights Saving Time all gates & staging areas at Mission Trails will close to vehicles at 5pm beginning now until March. Individuals that leave their vehicles parked inside of the gates past 5 pm may be locked in and cited. Pass it on!! #dontgetlockedin

Free Concert featuring San Diego Mesa College World Music Ensemble at 3:00pm on Sunday, November 5, 2017 Location: Visitor Center Theater The Mission Trails Regional Park Foundation invites the public to enjoy Sunday afternoon listening to the San Diego Mesa College World Music Ensemble, directed by Dr. N. Scott Robinson, will perform a program of traditional music from Uganda on the amadinda xylophone, traditional songs from Central Africa, and an original composition for Middle Eastern frame drums. Seating is limited in the theater, no standing allowed inside or in doorways.

The Mission Trails Regional Park Foundation invites the public to the Visitor Center Theater this Sunday afternoon to enjoy listening to the ever-popular Fred Benedetti who is back to perform classical, flamenco, world music, folk, popular and original compositions on his various guitars - including his double-neck, and ukulele. Seating is limited.

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This Sunday, October 15th, at 3:00 pm, The Queen Calafia Ensemble will perform Renaissance music at the Mission Trails Regional Park Visitor Center! Named for the mythical Amazon Queen of California (created by the writer Rodriguez de Montalvo in 1500), this group will present new arrangements of music written in the 111 years that began with the journeys of Columbus, and ended with the death of Elizabeth I. The program will feature new arrangements of the music of Luys de Narvaez, Adrien Le Roy, Thomas Tallis, and others. Jeff Pekarek, classical guitar Beatriz Basile, percussion Francesca Savage, viola David Savage, bassoon Natasha Kozaily, keyboard The MTRP Foundation presents free concerts on scheduled Sundays. All concerts begin at 3:00 p.m. and are held in the Visitor Center Theater (limited seating of 93 capacity). Schedule is subject to change.

Do you want a chance to see some wildlife (This picture of a Northern Harrier was photographed by Park Volunteer David Cooksy)? Join Ranger Andrew Miller this Sunday at 8:00 a.m. at the West Sycamore Staging Area (Very east end of Stonebridge Parkway) for a 90 minute guided nature walk. He will focus on the plant communities and animals commonly found at West Sycamore. Please wear comfortable shoes, a hat and bring bottled water. For more information on West Sycamore visit our website at: http://www.mtrp.org/