VCPRD Programs

2025 Vigo County Parks and Recreation Department
Programs & Special Events

For all Griffin Bike Park Events please click on the link below:
Griffin Bike Park Events

January

Programming Break

February

1st Buffalo Soldiers Winter Ride
Saturdays throughout the month- Maple Syrup Boiling at Prairie Creek Park
8th Pancake Breakfast at Fowler Park
15th Family Maple Syrup Hike at Prairie Creek Park

March

15th Family Hike at Hawthorn with the VCPL
31st – April 4th Spring Break Camp at Fowler Park

April

12th VCPL Oregon Trial Game at Dewey Point/ Bicentennial Park
19th Pain Train Spring Tune-up at Griffin Bike Park

Buffalo Soldiers Ride
Griffin Bike Park
Saturday, February 1st 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
All Ages Welcome!
Donations to Griffin Bike Park welcome

Vigo County Parks and Recreation Department and Sundance Skills Clinics will be hosting a winter ride at Griffin Bike Park! Come out and shake off the winter rust. This ride promotes: Camaraderie – Health – Good Cheer. Encourage people to opt outside and discover new places to ride! Hot chocolate , coffee, cookies will be available after the ride.
All Riders – All Ages
We would like to thank our event partners: Sundance Skills Clinics, Friends of Griffin Bike Park, Marty Day with Iwant2run.com and MacDesigns for developing the design.

The Buffalo Soldiers Winter Ride is a FUNdraiser ride for Griffin Bike Park and donation are welcome.

Pancake Breakfast
Fowler Park Log Barn
Saturday, February 8th 8:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
All Ages Welcome!

Tickets $8 per person, children 2 and under are free

Join us for our 2025 Pancake Breakfast at Fowler Park! Enjoy a breakfast of hot pancakes, sausage and drinks. After head to Prairie Creek for tour of our maple syrup operation where you can learn how we tap trees, boil and bottle our syrup. Anyone who takes their pancake breakfast token, received at the breakfast, to Prairie Creek to be entered into a drawing for a prize! All syrup for the breakfast will be made at Prairie Creek! Tickets will be $8 per person with children 2 and under free. All proceeds go to the Fowler Park Pioneer Village.
For tickets visit runsignup.com/TicketEvent/FowlerParkPancakeBreakfast

Maple Syrup Hike
Prairie Creek Park- Sugar Shack Cabin
Saturday, February 15th 2:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.
All Ages Welcome!

Join us for a hike at Prairie Creek to enjoy the winter scenery and learn about maple syrup making! View the process from tree tapping all the way to syrup boiling and bottling. Children must be accompanied by an adult. For more information call 812-462-3392 or email our Natural Resource Programmer at [email protected]

Family Hike
Rotating Parks
March through October- one Saturday a month 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m.
All Ages Welcome!

Gather your family and join us with the Vigo County Public Library for our monthly hiking club! One Saturday a month from March through October lace up your shoes and join our programmer for Family Hikes on some of our beautiful trails. Each month will feature a hike in a different park, schedule below!

March 15th- Hawthorn Park
May 10th- Prairie Creek Park
June 21st- Fowler Park
July 19th- Fowler Park
August 23rd- Ruble Park
September 20th- Wabashiki
October 18th- Hawthorn Park

Spring Break Adventure Day Camp
Fowler Park Log Barn
March 31st – April 4th 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Ages 8-15
$150 Registration Fee – Preregistration required.

Join us for a week of fun and Adventure at Fowler Park and Griffin Bike Park. Activities include games and sports, mountain biking, hiking and fishing. Be sure to pack clothes to be both inside and outside, comfortable shoes for outdoor activities and a sack lunch. Drop off will be at 8:00 am in the Fowler Park Log Barn and pick up will be at 5:00 pm at the Fowler Park Log Barn. For more information call the office at 812-462-3392 or email [email protected]
For registration please visit Fowler Park Spring Break Camp

Steel Dynamics Garbage Mountain Gravel Grinder

May 3rd at 11 a.m.

$40 registration before April 25th and $50 after

*This is a fundraiser for Griffin Bike Park

Check-in and registration begin at 9 AM. Located at 10700 Bono Road, Terre Haute, IN 47802.
Parking at the site

Steel Dynamics Inc. presents a Springtime Gravel race with fabulous views of well-known attractions like Garbage Mountain (the local dump) both out and inbound, ride by many pork and turkey farms, and over Numerous train tracks in this Lil more than a Metric long course. There will also be a medium-length course that cuts off the final loop at the Sag stop.

This will be an all-weather event (barring serious weather) so dress accordingly.

The course is a mix of chunky gravel, dirt roads, a bit of pavement, a few hills, and probably lots of mud.

There will be timing/placing for the top 3 in each class, course marshals, and signs to mark the route. GPS devices ARE advised and course route files are available on RideWithGPS. You will find yourself in the middle of Nowhere, Indiana. Often. This is NOT road bike friendly.

Races will be a mass start at Griffin Bike Park and finish at Griffin Bike Park.

Min 1 sag stop will be provided at the 35-mile area. And 2 sag vehicles will be on the course at all times.

Long: https://ridewithgps.com/routes/35681209

Medium: https://ridewithgps.com/routes/35710444

Categories Men’s and Women’s.

Expert Long Course

Novice Long Course

Expert Medium Course

Novice Medium Course

Ebike Long Course

Ebike Medium Course

Mass neutral start for all categories – 11 AM

Blacksmithing Classes
Fowler Park Pioneer Village
May 17th through October 18th, 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
Ages 10+, children under 18 must be accompanied by an adult
$60 Registration Fee – Preregistration required.

Check out the blacksmithing classes at Fowler Park! Participants will learn how to operate a blacksmith forge, understand the parts of an anvil, and the uses of various hand tools in the blacksmith shop. They’ll also get to shape metal using learned techniques including forging a curve, a twist, a square, and more! Call 812-462-3392 or email our Natural Resource Programmer at [email protected] for more information. Classes fill up quickly so make sure to register today!

For registration please visit: 2025 Fowler Park Blacksmithing Classes