Love Your Lake Day

Come and celebrate “Love Your Lake Day” with LSPA at The Center for Lake Studies. There will be exciting exhibits, face painting, games, crafts for the kids, and a live animals! Join us as we celebrate our love and appreciation for the incredible gifts Lake Sunapee shares with us all year long. This event is free and open to the public with activities for all ages!

No registration is required.

Antique Boat Parade

Antique boats will be on display in Sunapee Harbor throughout the morning, followed by the parade with the route starting in Gardner Bay. The boats will head south past Dewey Beach, enter Sunapee Harbor around 1:15 pm, then travel along the shoreline toward Birch Point, passing Fishers Bay and Oakledge, the State Beach and ending in Newbury Harbor.

Come join LSPA educators at the Center for Lake Studies to explore the natural world. This Tuesday morning will be filled with hands on learning through sensory experiences, guided exploration, creative play, art, and music. LSPA’s story time is designed for young children and their caregivers. Come to one summer Tuesday or all - each program is organized around a different ecological theme. Come join the fun! This Tuesday morning we will be exploring the fun river otter and its beautiful river habitat.

Join us as we celebrate our incredible volunteers, at LSPA’s Annual Volunteer Picnic!

Come enjoy good food and great company! It's our way of saying thank you for all the time and energy you give to protecting our watershed. We couldn’t do it without you!

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Cyanobacteria blooms have become increasingly common in New Hampshire. Join us for an informative presentation by Jessica Trout-Haney, Dartmouth College, outlining why this naturally occurring algae has become problematic, its health effects, and actions we all can take to prevent toxic blooms.

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Join us for an engaging workshop and expo event to learn how to manage stormwater runoff on your property.  A short classroom session will be followed by a local site visit where participants will learn how to read the landscape and discuss ways to slow down rainwater and promote infiltration into the soil.  Attendees will also learn about LSPA’s Watershed Wise program and hear from a past participant about the changes he made to his landscape, primarily using plants, to reduce erosion.

Following the earlier sessions, we will host an expo between 11 am - 12:30 pm. Stop by during this time period to visit eight outdoor stations on topics including lake-friendly lawn best practices, native plants to prevent erosion, native pollinator plants for rain gardens, rubber water razors to prevent channeling of driveways and how to test and improve soil health for your landscape.

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Join us for a community forum where Evan Ma and Cayce Dalton from FB Environmental will present findings from our recent project to assess the risk of septic system contamination that included a questionnaire for residents in the Sunapee project area. The project area includes more than two miles of Lake Sunapee shoreline (south of Burkehaven) and Mountainview Lake. There will be discussion on proper septic system maintenance and attendees will have an opportunity to ask questions and voice concerns with members of the Sunapee Water and Sewer Department. The results of this project will help inform how we protect water quality into the future.

This event is intended for residents who live within the project area but anyone interested in learning more is welcome to attend.

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Are you fascinated by mushrooms but have no idea how to get started with identifying what kinds they are? Join mushroom enthusiast, LSPA board member and Forest Society staffer Carrie Deegan for a fun beginner mushroom foray.  We’ll start inside with a presentation about basic mushroom biology, collection and identification tips, and then head out for a walk at Dewey Woods in Sunapee, collecting samples of different species as we go. Finally, we’ll bring our finds back to the trailhead and try to identify and sort them by family.

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Join LSPA for an excursion under the light of the full moon. Refreshments will be served during this annual fundraiser for LSPA’s education programs.

4:00 PM board time.

Ticket Price: $30 per ticket

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