Mill Creek MetroParks Hosts Winter Celebration
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio – Mill Creek MetroParks celebration of the holiday season, Winter Celebration – The Snow Garden, continues through Dec. 31 at the D.D. and Velma Davis Education & Visitor Center in Fellows Riverside Gardens.
The visitor center will feature an array of seasonal plants in bloom, park officials say, and holiday trees decorated by more than 50 local nonprofit organizations. The event also features a Snow Palace for area children to visit and make holiday memories.
On Dec. 16 and 23, families will have the opportunity to enjoy Fellows Riverside Gardens decked out in twinkling lights and luminarias for Winter Nights, 5-7 p.m.. After completing the wintry walk, children as well as adults can warm up in the Davis Center with music, cocoa and cookies. Also this year, The Georgetown is serving dinner in the Garden Cafe on the Winter Nights. Reservations are required and can be made by calling 330 758 0811.
The Garden Café is open for lunch daily, as well as brunch on Sundays. A live 8-foot-tall poinsettia tree bedecks the Café, where visitors can dine while taking in the view of Lake Glacier, and the Shop In The Gardens is open for holiday gifts.
Visitors are also invited to bring nonperishable food items to Fellows Riverside Gardens throughout the month of December to support Second Harvest Food Bank.
The visitor center is open 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday through Sunday, with special holiday hours Dec. 16 and 23. The center is closed Mondays and will be closed Dec. 24 and 25 and Jan. 1.
Published by The Business Journal, Youngstown, Ohio.
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