Hike for Your Health Challenge

Are you up for the challenge?

Join the fun and get healthy at Cincinnati Nature Center while discovering all of the benefits of hiking. Take the Hike for Your Health Challenge! The Nature Center has made significant enhancements to this initiative including:

• New Hike for Your Health trail passports
• Heart monitors for our guest to check-out
• Outdoor exhibit to motivate participants
• Valuable incentive prizes to encourage participation at all abilities

Pick up a Hike for Your Health passport at the Rowe Visitor Center for $2 and start hiking! After hiking all 15 trails at Rowe Woods and Long Branch Farm & Trails, bring your passport back to the Rowe Visitor Center to receive a Cincinnati Nature Center Trailblazer prize.

Special thanks to Interact for Health and presenting sponsor—Cintas

The Hike for Your Health Challenge is for everyone. Why?

Because regular hiking leads to:

• Weight control—hiking burns up 370 calories an hour (for a 154-lb person)
• Improved cardio-respiratory fitness
• Improved muscular fitness
• Lower risk of heart disease and stroke
• Lower risk of high blood pressure and type 2 diabetes
• Lower risk of high cholesterol and triglycerides
• Better bone health
• Better quality sleep
• Reduced risk of stress and depression
• Increased attention span and short-term memory

In addition, studies show that exposing yourself to fresh air, plants, sunshine, and even dirt can lift your mood, elicit inner peace, and connect you with life on a fundamental level. Hiking with family and/or friends, allows for uninterrupted personal time together and that is of great value to many people in today’s busy world.