Bays Mountain Park Announces Fall StarWatch Programs
KINGSPORT – Bays Mountain Parks observing sessions of our night skies have returned!‚ StarWatch is a free outdoor program allowing the public to enjoy the splendor of the night sky at the parks observatories.‚
Hosted by the Bays Mountain Astronomy Club, members operate the parks telescopes, as well as their own, to offer an exciting tour of the night sky.‚ Viewers can gaze at the moons craters and imagine themselves flying over in a spacecraft, and also witness celestial places of star birth and star death.
Sessions are held each Saturday night in October and November starting at dusk.‚ If the weather does not cooperate, an alternative activity will be held in the Planetarium.
Please note, StarWatch for October 29 is cancelled due to the Park’s extremely popular Halloween Haunt event.‚ StarWatch programs, however, will resume their normal schedule on Saturday, November 5, 2011.
Annually, more than 150,000 visitors pass through Bays Mountain Park making it one of the State of Tennessees Top 50 Most Visited Attractions, according to the State of Tennessee Department of Tourist Development.
One of the nations largest city-owned parks with 3,550 acres, Bays Mountain Park features 38 miles of hiking trails, a state-of-the-art planetarium, wildlife habitats, fun exhibits, a 44-acre lake, trails for mountain biking and much, much more.