National Kids to Parks Day
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Buddy Bison Challenge
Will you take the Buddy Bison® Challenge?
Fuzzy, brown and ready for adventure. Buddy Bison™ wants to explore America's parks with you. How many park visits can you make this year? You can visit your national, state, and local parks, wildlife refuges, forests, and historical monuments and bring Buddy Bison™ along.
The RULES are simple:
- DOWNLOAD the Buddy Bison™ Challenge.
- Record each visit on pages 2-16 of the Buddy Bison™ Challenge.
- You can visit a park more than once. Try to do something new each time.
- Be sure to include practices and ball games that are held at a park. Buddy Bison asked that you clean up the park after every practice or game.
- Take photographs and videos of Buddy Bison™ and send them to npt@parktrust.org.
Explore the outdoors; the parks are yours. Buddy Bison™ simply wants you to get out and play for one hour a day. Will you earn the silver, gold or platinum level?
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| 365 park visits. Visit one park a day for 365 days. |
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| 156 park visits. Can you visit on average three parks a week for an entire year? |
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| 52 park visits. Can you visit on average one park a week for an entire year? |
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Adventures
Tell us what you did at the park. Send us your pictures with Buddy Bison. We may feature your photos on his website, in the Where's Buddy Bison Been? map and in his national newsletter Buddy Bison's Buzz. You could also be chosen as Buddy Bison's Adventurer of the Month!
Send all adventures and pictures to buddy@buddybison.org
Click here to see the latest issue of Buzz and read about the latest adventures!
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Buddy Bison loves stories, songs and drawings that he has inspired. Like this diorama from Bullis School; Potomac, MD. |



















