2025 Wild Miles Challenge

Join us for 39 days of exploring nature, being active, and taking care of our environment. Earn badges to show off your achievements and prizes that make more nature adventures possible. It all starts on Allen Stokes birthday on September 16!

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Cross your own “finish line” in 2025 with our Wild Miles Challenge!

The journey begins September 16th and finishes on October 25th. You can start any day after September 16th, just finish by October 25th.

The challenge: Complete 25 activities in 39 days in honor of Allen and Alice Stokes’ birthdays. Accomplish miles, explore the outdoors, find new natural wonders, and support more nature education and stewardship - participate right where you are and just the way you are! No, you don’t have to complete every challenge, but we encourage you to try!

New This Year:

Complete certain challenges to earn badges and extra prizes that show off your love of nature!

Prove You are A:

  1. Leave No Trace Champion

  2. Dark Skies Explorer

  3. Tree Hugger

  4. Bird Nerd

The reward: Making more nature education and outdoor exploration a reality for people of all ages! Also, prizes from our amazing sponsors will be awarded in four categories:

  1. Top points earner

  2. Most miles completed

  3. Most dollars fundraised

  4. First to finish the entire challenge.

All participants who reach at least 500 points will earn a Stokes Nature Center swag bag!

 

How to participate

It’s easy!

1) Sign up to participate as an individual or a team. Entry is $25 for individuals, $50 for a team. Teams can be no more than 4 people, and you decide who does which challenge. Prizes are awarded separately for teams versus individual competitors.

2) We will send your Wild Miles challenges out on September 16. Decide how you want to participate: go for the points or go for the awards. You do you!

3) Submit your finished challenges to nature@logannature.org.

Can’t participate this year but still want to honor Allen and Alice Stokes and our 28th year? Donate directly to Stokes Nature Center HERE. Thank you for your support!

Wild Miles album

Wild Miles participants can send photos to nature@logannature.org for inclusion in our gallery!