Saunter the Overland Park Arboretum

Join us as we idly saunter through the Overland Park Arboretum on Saturday, May 18 starting at 1 pm.

There will be a nature photography contest exhibition at the visitor center. Admission to the Arboretum is $7 for adults and can be purchased here or at the gift shop. Hopefully the weather will cooperate. In case of precipitation, the event will cancel, so make sure to download the Meetup app and turn on notifications in case plans change. At the arboretum, kindly take nothing but photos and memories.

See the quote below attributed to John Muir:

Hiking — "I don't like either the word or the thing. People ought to saunter in the mountains — not hike! Do you know the origin of that word 'saunter?' It's a beautiful word. Away back in the Middle Ages people used to go on pilgrimages to the Holy Land, and when people in the villages through which they passed asked where they were going, they would reply, 'A la sainte terre,' 'To the Holy Land.' And so they became known as sainte-terre-ers or saunterers. Now these mountains are our Holy Land, and we ought to saunter through them reverently, not 'hike' through them."