FAMILY ACTIVITIES

Family Archery

Archery is a great activity for the whole family! Learn about the basic components of a bow, how to shoot a bow and have fun shooting traditional and animal targets. Equipment is provided. Children under 12 must be accompanied by an adult.

Fee: $7

Date: 09/16 10:00 AM-12:00 PM

Ages: 7+

Location: Archery Range

Full Moon Snowshoeing

Explore how beautiful our parks can be at night under a full moon. This program teaches the basics of snowshoeing as hikers experience nighttime in the parks. At the end, we will sit around the bonfire.

Fee: $5.50

Dates/Times: 01/25 and 02/24 from 7:00 PM-9:00 PM

Ages: 5+

Location: Kaplan’s Woods Pavilion

Park Passport Program

Fun on Ice

Fun on Ice offers themed open skate opportunities at various ice rinks around Owatonna. It is a fun and exciting experience for people of all ages and skill levels. Games and music are provided making this a great way to socialize and connect with others.

Winter Wonderland Skate

Date: 12/23 Sa 6:00 PM-8:00 PM Ages: All Ages

Fee: $0 Morehouse Park Chalet

Hawaiian Skate Date: 01/13 Sa 6:00 PM-8:00 PM

Ages: All Ages Fee: $0 Buecksler Park

Glow Skate Date: 01/27 Sa 6:00 PM-8:00 PM

Ages: All Ages

Fee: $0 Brooktree Clubhouse

Valentines Skate Date: 02/10 Sa 6:00 PM-8:00 PM

Ages: All Ages Fee: $0 Brooktree Clubhouse

Skate Olympics Date: 02/24 Sa 6:00 PM-8:00 PM

Ages: All Ages Fee: $0 Countryview Park

This Owatonna Parks and Recreation program promotes making healthy lifestyle choices by encouraging families and individuals to explore our parks and trails and get exercise by walking the mapped trails. This four-week program is FREE! Enjoy your time in the parks! The Passport includes Mineral Springs Park, Leo Rudolph Nature Reserve, Dartts Park, Buxton Trail, North Straight River Parkway, Kaplan’s Woods Trail, 18th Street Trail, Manthey Park, Muckle Trail and Kaplan’s Woods Parkway. A completed passport equals 11 miles of trail walking! Visit these parks to locate the hidden password. Parks will have a small sign mounted to a post along the trail. The signs are approximately four feet from the ground. Each sign has a word on the back. Reveal the phrase! Write the hidden password for each park/ trail in the appropriate box on the Passport to reveal the message. Each word counts as an additional opportunity to win. Partially completed passports are eligible to win. Special thanks to the Mayo Clinic Health System for helping make this possible.

Fee: free

Dates/Times: 9/23-10/22

Pickleball Beginner

This beginner Pickleball course is focused on teaching people these basic fundamentals of scoring, technique and etiquette of the sport through drilling, instruction and game play. This course is 60-minute-long and instructed by Director of Pickleball, Matt Hokanson.

Fee: $80

Dates/Times: Sundays from 11:30 AM-12:30 PM

Fall Session 09/03-10/22, Winter Session 1 11/05-12/31, Winter Session 2 01/14-03/03, Winter Session 3 03/17-04/1

Ages: 16+

Location: Tennis & Pickleball Center

Pumpkin Patch Geocaching

Show off your skills by participating in fun fall activities scattered throughout the park, such as, eye spy, ring toss and pumpkin bowling. Using a GPS, you will hike to each site with your family and friends. (Ages two and under are free)

Fee: $5

Dates/Times: 10/28 and 10/29 1:00 PM-3:00 PM

Ages: 3+

Location: Mineral Springs Park Pavilion

Snowshoe Geocaching for Smore’s

Grab your mittens, strap on snowshoes, and feel weightless with us as we look for lost s’more ingredients. This program teaches you the basics of geocaching with the added bonus of extra hiding places. Stay for a bonfire and a tasty treat after snowshoeing.

Fee: $5.50

Dates/Times: 12/16, 12/30, 01/07 from 1:00 PM-3:00 PM, 02/10 from 10:00 AM-12:00 PM

Ages: 5+

Location: Kaplan’s Wood, Brooktree Clubhouse

Spooktacular Pumpkins

Jack-O-Lanterns are hidden throughout the park and it is your job to find them. During this program, you will be given a GPS provided for participants. This program is great for the entire family. Bring a flashlight. Registration per person is $5.00. An adult must be registered and accompany children for this event.

Fee: $5

Dates/Times: 10/27 and 10/28 7:00 PM-9:00 PM

Ages: 7+

Location: Brooktree Clubhouse and Kaplan’s Woods Pavilion

Swimming Lessons - Level 1

This course is for beginners who are comfortable in the water to learn the basics of swimming such as: bobbing, going under water, supported front and back floating, supported rolling over from front to back, supported gliding, supported flutter kick, supported front crawl arms and jumping in. Fall Registration: 8/17/23 Winter Registration: 12/14/23

Fee: $47

Ages: All ages Location: West Hills Swimming Pool

Swimming Lessons - Level 2

This course is for swimmers who are able to float on their front and back with assistance and put their heads under water. Swimmers will work on independent front and back floating, independent rolling over, independent front and back glides, front crawl arms and kicks, back crawl arms and kicks, retrieving underwater objects and jumping into water over their heads. Fall Registration: 8/17/23

Winter Registration: 12/14/23

Fee: $47

Ages: All ages Location: West Hills Swimming Pool

Swimming Lessons - Level 3

Swimmers in this course are comfortable swimming front stroke and swimming on their backs. This course teaches gliding, freestyle with side breathing, backstroke, breaststroke and dolphin kicks, retrieving objects in deeper water, treading water, jumping into deep water and compact dives. Fall Registration: 8/17/23 Winter

Registration: 12/14/23

Fee: $47

Ages: All ages

Location: Owatonna Middle School Pool

Swimming Lessons - Level 4

Swimmers at this level are able to swim front and back crawl 25 yards. This course helps swimmers improve rotary breathing, freestyle, backstroke, elementary backstroke, scissors kick and sidestroke, whip kick and breaststroke, intro to turning at wall, treading water with modified scissors and diving in kneeling position. Fall

Registration: 8/17/23 Winter Registration: 12/14/23

Fee: $47

Ages: All ages

Location: Owatonna Middle School Pool

Swimming Lessons - Level 5/6

This combined Level 5 and Level 6 class allows students who are registered at Level 5 to be taught the level 5 course, while students registered as Level 6 are being taught the level 6 course. Level 5 swimmers are able to: swim freestyle, breaststroke and backstroke 25 yards, scissors kick, whip kick, treading water and dive. They will work on alternate breathing, stride jump, refining freestyle, backstroke, elementary backstroke, sidestroke, breaststroke, dolphin kick and butterfly, open turn on front and back, feet-first surface dive and treading water. Level 6 swimmers are able to swim front and back crawl 50 yards, elementary backstroke 25 yards, breaststroke 25 yards, butterfly 25 yards, sidestroke 10 yards, tread water for three minutes and dive. These swimmers will work on all six strokes, front and back crawl flip turn, breaststroke turn, breaststroke speed turn and pullout, butterfly turn, sidestroke turn, pike and tuck surface dive, pike and tuck dive from board, tread water for five minutes, and basic water rescue. Fall Registration: 8/17/23

Winter Registration: 12/14/23

Fee: $47

Ages: All ages

Owatonna Middle School Pool

Swimming Lessons - Parent Child Level 2

This course is designed to give young children a head start on swimming, to get comfortable in the water and begin to work on basic skills while interacting with an instructor and other children in a fun and safe environment. Parents and children learn together to increase a child’s comfort level in the water and build a foundation of basic skills such as arm and leg movements and breath control. Lessons are fun-filled and help introduce water safety concepts, encouraging healthy recreational habits for your entire family to enjoy. Fall Registration: 8/17/23 Winter Registration: 12/14/23

Fee: $47

Ages: All ages

Location: West Hills Swimming Pool

Swimming Lessons - Parent Child Level 1

This course is designed to give young children a head start on swimming, to get comfortable in the water and begin to work on basic skills while interacting with instructor and other children in a fun and safe environment. Parents and children learn together to increase a child’s comfort level in the water and build a foundation of basic skills, such as arm and leg movements and breath control. Lessons are fun-filled and help introduce water safety concepts, encouraging healthy recreational habits for your entire family to enjoy. Fall Registration: 8/17/23 Winter Registration: 12/14/23

Fee: $47

Ages: All ages Location: West Hills Swimming Pool

Swimming Lessons - Private Lessons

Private Swimming Lessons are great for Young Swimmers, Novice Swimmers, Adult Swimmers, and Swimmers with disabilities. All lessons are taught by an American Red Cross instructor who will work with each student on the areas they wish to grow while following the American Red Cross Learn to Swim Program. Registration

Guidelines: - Cost is $110 for one student and $170 for two students (scholarships are not available for private lessons). - Class limit of no more than 2 students per class. If there are 2 students in a class, the students must be within one level of each other. - You may not sign up for two classes for the same person until a week after the first registration day - Private Lessons taught at West Hills will not be taught the Diving component of Lessons due to the shallow depth of the pool. Fall Registration: 8/17/23 Winter

Registration: 12/14/23

Fee: $110

Ages: All ages

Location: West Hills Swimming Pool

Egg Splash-Swimming Egg Hunt

Egg Splash is a swimming Easter egg hunt that combines the excitement of traditional Easter egg hunts with the added challenge of searching for eggs in a swimming pool. Bring a basket and collect as many eggs as you can fit in your basket while swimming in a sea of eggs, turn in your eggs and receive your candy! Once your eggs are collected use the rest of your egg hunt session for open swim!

Fee: $2

Dates/Time: Saturday 03/30 sign up for a thirtyminute session 9:00 AM, 9:45 AM, 10:30 AM, 11:15 AM, 12:00 PM

Ages: All ages Location: West Hills Swimming Pool

Red Cross Lifeguard Review

The purpose of the American Red Cross Lifeguard Review course is to give lifeguards whose certification is not more than 30 days expired the opportunity to review the course content within a formal course setting. The review course format optimizes a participant’s ability to successfully complete the knowledge and skills evaluations t o earn recertification in Lifeguarding/First Aid/CPR/AED.

Fee: $130

Dates/Time: Saturday 03/09 08:00 PM-5:00 PM

Ages: 15+

Location: Owatonna Middle School Pool

Red Cross Lifeguarding

The purpose of the American Red Cross Lifeguarding course is to provide entry-level knowledge and skills to prevent, recognize and respond to aquatics emergencies and to provide care for breathing and cardiac emergencies, injuries and sudden illnesses until emergency medical services (EMS) personnel take over. Pre-requisites: practice and prepare for the following skills which are required to pass the class. Must be at least 15 years of age at the time of the class. You will not receive a refund if you do not complete or pass the class. Swim 300 yards continuously (non-stop) performing either front crawl or breaststroke. Swim 20 yards, pick up 10-pound brick from 10 feet of water and return it back 20 yards using only a kick, holding brick with two hands on the chest. Tread water with no hands/arms for two minutes.

Fee: $195

Dates/Time: Saturday 03/09 08:00 PM-5:00 PM

Ages: 15+

Location: Owatonna Middle School Pool

Red Cross WSI

Water Safety Instructors are trained to teach children and adults water safety, survival and swimming skills, and give community water safety presentations. It’s a fun job that will help you develop teaching and leadership skills. Pre-requisites: Must be 16 at time class begins, must attend all classes to pass (no refund will be issued if you do not pass). Strokes you need to know proficiently for at least 25 yards each are: back crawl, breaststroke, butterfly, elementary backstroke, front crawl.

Fee: $225

Dates/Time: 12/02-12/10

Weekends 08:00 PM-5:00 PM

Ages: 16+

Location: Multiple Facilities

October Class Date: 10/19-10/21 Th-Sa 8:00 AM-2:00 PM

December Class Date: 12/27-12/29 We-Fr 8:00 AM-2:00 PM

February Class Date: 02/03-02/10 Weekends 10:00 AM-3:00 PM

March Class Date: 03/25-03/27 Mo-We 8:00 AM-2:00 PM

Water Aerobics

These classes are designed for an aerobic workout that stresses movement of the joints, muscles, and heart in a great small pool with a water temperature of approximately 90 degrees which is great for rehabilitation and arthritis. Numerous classes are offered, with limited class sizes. Registration is the second to the last Wednesday of every month for the next month.

Fee: September through December $10.50 per week; Starting January $11 per week

Dates/Time: Weekly Sessions: 9/4/23-3/28/24

Ages: 16+

Location: West Hills Swimming Pool

Indoor Lap Swim

Mondays and Wednesdays 8:30-9:25 AM

Mondays and Wednesdays 9:45-10:40 AM

Tuesdays and Thursdays 7:15-8:10 AM

Tuesdays and Thursdays 8:30-9:25 AM

Tuesdays and Thursdays 9:45-10:40 AM

Tuesdays and Thursdays 11:00-11:55 AM

Tuesdays and Thursdays 4:30-5:25 PM

Tuesdays and Thursdays 5:30-6:25 PM

This early morning Swim is for those ages 15 and over who are interested in lap swimming and general water exercising to use any section of the pool (shallow end, main section, deep end). No diving from the diving board or starting blocks, no big jumps with loud splashes, no socializing and no eating or drinking. There will be no morning lap swim if inclement weather causes Owatonna schools to have a two hour late start or close.

Fee: $5

Dates/Time: 09/06-05/31 Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays 6:00 AM-7:15 AM

Ages: 15+

Location: Owatonna Middle Swimming Pool

Open Swim

During this opportunity for families to enjoy swim time together there will be two lifeguards on duty. All children 12 years of age or under must be accompanied by a parent in the water. Children wearing lifejackets must be within arm’s reach of their parent at all times and are only allowed in the shallow end of the pool. A swim test will be administered prior to entry into the deep water/ diving boards at the middle school. The West Hills Open Swim also includes access to the basketball court for open basketball. Registration is Required.

Fee: $5

Dates/Time: 09/16-05/11 Sa 1:00 PM-3:00 PM

Ages: All Ages

Location: West Hills Swimming Pool

Fee: $5

Dates/Time: 09/29-05/17 Fr 6:30 PM-8:30 PM

Ages: All Ages

Location: Owatonna Middle School Pool