BERN TWP., Pa. – The cold and the snow on the ground isn’t slowing everyone down. In fact, it’s getting some people outside in Berks County.<\/p>\n
Lisa Gauker, Recreation\/Special Events Supervisor with Berks Parks and Recreation, said\u00a0the county offers a free lending program that lets people borrow\u00a0snowshoeing equipment for the day. \u00a0<\/p>\n
The county was awarded a grant in 2023 which allowed it to buy snowshoes and snowshoeing equipment. The county has gotten\u00a0about 25 pairs of snowshoes within the last three years.\u00a0<\/p>\n
People interested in borrowing equipment can visit the county’s parks department. People will need to fill out a form and leave a form of collateral with the county. Those borrowing the equipment to go snowshoeing are asked to just use the snowshoes in county parks.<\/p>\n
Gauker said\u00a0snowshoeing is a great introductory winter activity that people can enjoy in the county’s parks.<\/p>\n
Kathy Grim, Recreation Program Assistant with\u00a0Berks County Parks and Recreation, said people of different physical abilities can enjoy snowshoeing.<\/p>\n
Berks County Commissioner Christian Leinbach (R) said there is little training or lessons needed to enjoy the activity. He said it is less expensive than skiing or other winter pasttimes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BERN TWP., Pa. – The cold and the snow on the ground isn’t slowing everyone down. In fact,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":105966,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[214,279,128,130,129,3705],"class_list":["post-105965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-berks","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-sunrise"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105965\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}