Brightwood Day 2025 - it's a wrap!
A wonderful crowd showed up to enjoy our fairy house hunt, yoga, forest bathing, birding, photography and meeting other nature-curious neighbors and and making new friends.
On May 3, 2025 Friends of Brightwood Park held their 3rd annual Brightwood Park Day celebration. This day was intended to showcase all the activities Brightwood Park has to offer. Keeping with the philosophy that the park is meant to be a nature "sanctuary", we offered several "passive" activities throughout the day, starting with birding early in the morning. A session on photography was then offered, followed by forest bathing, nature hikes, yoga, nature classes, and native species planting. The final event of the day was the very popular fairy house scavenger hunt where participants made fairy wands and were given fairy wings, then walked through the woods to discover the ten fairy villages hidden among the trees. It was rumored that there were several actual fairy "sightings" along the way.

A tour highlighting park history was held the following day.

Additionally, several other local organizations set up booths to showcase their particular interest in the environment. These included the Westfield Green Team, Westfield Memorial Library, Westfield Garden Club, Raritan River Watershed Association, Union County Native Plant Society, the Watershed Ambassador group, and the Westfield Tree Preservation Commission, who along with Westfield DPW handed out several types of tree tubelings. A special thanks to all these groups!

We hope everyone who attended found the day both fun and enlightening and we hope to see even more of you next year!
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Brightwood Day 2025

It's a wrap!
Thank you to Chuan-Chu Chou, Mary Roberts and JPL for the photos!

Fairy House Magic