Scavenger Hunts

A scavenger hunt will make your hike more exciting — it turns it into a treasure hunt. Remember to find the items on the list, but don’t bring them home with you. Point Reyes National Seashore is a national park and you’re not allowed to take out anything from the park (except of course, trash.) Thank you for doing your part to keep the park clean!

You can use our scavenger hunts or make your own. It’s even more fun to create a bingo card — draw a grid and write the names of things to find in the squares.

Hiking on a trail:

  1. two different kinds of pine cones

  2. banana slug

  3. Woodpecker

  4. California Quail

  5. plant with black berries such as blackberry or huckleberry

  6. woodrat nest

  7. deer or Tule Elk

  8. Turkey vulture

  9. animal tracks

  10. two kinds of scat (poop)

  11. a hole in a tree

  12. lichen or a mushroom

  13. two different kinds of fern spores (hint: look on the back of the fern leaf to find the tiny dots of spores)

On the beach:

  1. sand dollar

  2. jellyfish

  3. crab

  4. Northern Elephant Seal or Harbor Seal or Sea Lion

  5. Gull

  6. a piece of plastic (if you find one, pick it up and put it in the trash)

  7. seashell such as a cockle or clam

  8. three different types of kelp

  9. something crawling on the sand or under the sand (snail, crab, sand dollar)

  10. bonus: sea star or whale