📅 Date: Thursday, July 23, 2026
⏰ Time: 8:00 - 10:00 PM
📍 Location: The La Crosse Trailhead (Near the Wildflower Center)
💚 $7 Donation (Members get 30% discount)
📅 Date: Thursday, July 23, 2026
⏰ Time: 8:00 - 10:00 PM
📍 Location: The La Crosse Trailhead (Near the Wildflower Center)
💚 $7 Donation (Members get 30% discount)
Explore the nocturnal wild of the Violet Crown Trail with UV flashlights, moon viewings, and play glow-in-the-dark bingo! Perfect for families, nature lovers, and curious kids
🔎 What’s in store?
8pm - Event start and orientation
8:30pm - Start of the UV night walk
9:45pm - End of the night walk and start of telescope viewing
10pm - End of the event
🌱 Why join?
Connect with local ecologists, mycologists, and conservationists
Mushrooms snacks! Enjoy beverages.
Enjoy a community-driven event in a unique urban nature preserve
Come for the science, stay for the adventure! Bring your curiosity, a camera for observations, and a sense of wonder. 🌍✨
Bring your own 365nm UV flashlight or purchase one from us and pick-up at the event.
We tested 5+ UV flashlight brands and we recommend this flashlight. Order online and pick-up at one of our night walks.
Product Features
Handheld UV flashlight
Lightweight, compact size goes anywhere
Built-in rechargeable lithium battery
Charge with included 6-inch Micro USB cord
Can run from a USB power bank (not included)
Product Specifications
ON/OFF button on tailcap
Bulb 3-watt 365nm UV LED
Battery internal rechargeable battery
Dimensions 4" (103mm) long x 0.9" (24mm) width
Weight 3.1 ounces / 90g
Powerful 365nm UV flashlight with high-output LED, patented ZWB2 filter, and dual battery options. Features waterproof IP-65 rating, ergonomic grip, polished reflector, and tail switch for precise control and durability.
🔦 About the UV (Blacklight) Night Walk
We will explore the diverse, nocturnal ecosystem with UV flashlights and cameras to look for mushrooms, night pollinators, birds, glowing plants, lichens and more. Learn how fungi is entangled in the forest helping plants gain water and nutrients, creating the pigments that give flowers their beautiful colors, to helping plants communicate with pollinators. Guests will learn how to look for, photograph and be community scientists in adding fluorescing organisms to the iNaturalist project. Learn more here about how some plants, mushrooms, lichens and insects have evolved color patterns that are visible in the ultraviolet portion of the electromagnetic light spectrum, which humans cannot see but many insects, birds and animals can see.
💚 Event Organizers
Central Texas Mycological Society