Shawnee Lookout Park
Events at this venue
Annual Moonlit Winter Walk – Morris Mercer Memorial Hike
January 30, 2026 at 7:00pm - Annual Moonlit Winter Walk - Morris Mercer Memorial Hike at Shawnee Lookout This event features a two-hour night hike guided by Oxbow, Inc. Board Member, John Klein. Embrace the winter air and enjoy the sights and sounds of the outdoors during this memorable event! Interested in participating? Meet John […]
Meet A Greenspace at Shawnee Lookout!
Join Green Umbrella's Greenspace Alliance and Great Parks for a Meet A Greenspace Hike on Friday, January 23rd, from 3-4:30 pm at Shawnee Lookout! Once home to the indigenous peoples who lived in this region for 10,000 years, Shawnee Lookout has since been converted to a golf course and, more recently, a park. The landscape […]
Shawnee Lookout Tree Nut Planting
The Nature Conservancy is partnering with Great Parks of Hamilton County to restore the streams at Shawnee Lookout and reforest the park. All fall we've collected gallons of native tree nuts, now we need help getting them in the ground! You can help by joining us at Shawnee Lookout Park on Saturday, 11/15 to plant […]
Fall Migration: Warblers & Shorebirds
September is the peak of fall migration for songbirds (especially warblers) and shorebirds. Many other species like early waterfowl, long-legged waders, terns, raptors and more also migrate south in September. Our trip leader, Jack Stenger, an expert birder and naturalist, has regularly birded in the Oxbow since the age of ten and has great knowledge […]
Annual Moonlit Evening Winter Walk — AKA Morris Mercer Memorial Field Trip
One of Oxbow Inc.’s beloved founders, Morris Mercer, loved the night winter woods, especially when there was snow on the ground. He and his good friend John Klein started this night walk in the Shawnee Lookout woodlands that overlook the Oxbow many years ago. Morris is no longer with us, but John keeps Morris’s spirit […]