The Jingle Bell Fun Run brought festive cheer to Turtle Bay as families, friends, and holiday-loving runners filled the trails with jingling bells and bright smiles. Check out our favorite moments from this joyful community tradition!
Historic postcards offer tiny glimpses into the past—capturing places, people, and even everyday messages. This 1905 postcard of the Turtle Bay Sawmill reveals a time when postcards were the quickest way to stay in touch and when the mill itself was a defining feature of Redding’s riverside landscape. Discover the story behind this colorful piece of history and the once-bustling mill that shaped early Redding.
This month’s artifact—a hand-cut silhouette by artist A.H. Harrison—offers a fascinating glimpse into the Better Babies Exposition of the early 1900s. What began as an effort to promote children’s health reveals deeper stories of art, eugenics, and family history, and the enduring power of a single image to connect us to the past.
Our honorary baristas brought energy and smiles, coffee lovers stopped by to support Turtle Bay, and together we made this year’s fundraiser a success!
All of us at Turtle Bay are immensely grateful for the incredible presence of the many community members, supporters, and partners who attended our recent event, State of Turtle Bay. Lindsay Myers, President & CEO of Turtle Bay, brought our many attendees on an inspiring journey through the past, into the present, and onto the future of Turtle Bay Exploration Park.
As bobcat kittens grow up, they practice life skills with their litter mates and of course, mom. Whisper, our bobcat, didn’t have any litter mates with whom to practice so it all fell to her surrogate moms, Adrienne and me.
The weather is warming up, the sun is starting to shine (sometimes) and flowers are starting to bloom! All of this makes a wonderful combination to do some science! In this project we’re going to create rainbow flowers.
Here at Turtle Bay, we are perfectly poised to watch the Sacramento River as it rises and falls with each controlled change in the release level and with every rainstorm. The plaza under the Sundial Bridge is underwater, but that has happened a few times since it was completed in 2004.