Listen to this page using ReadSpeaker

Delaware News



  Category: Division of Parks and Recreation


DNREC reminds residents that ocean dunes in state parks are closed to sledding, snowboarding

Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control | Division of Parks and Recreation | Date Posted: Thursday, January 21, 2016

The DNREC Division of Parks and Recreation is asking the public to help protect the dunes in Delaware’s ocean parks by reminding residents and visitors that sledding in the dunes at Cape Henlopen, Delaware Seashore and Fenwick Island State Parks is prohibited.




DNREC’S Division of Parks and Recreation receives major land donation from Nemours Foundation for Alapocas Run State Park

Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control | Division of Parks and Recreation | New Castle County | Date Posted: Tuesday, November 24, 2015

The Nemours Foundation has donated nearly 46 acres of significant forestland to the DNREC Division of Parks and Recreation’s Alapocas Run State Park, located just outside Wilmington




Experience living history at Fort Delaware State Park’s “Infantry Weekend”

Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control | Division of Parks and Recreation | Date Posted: Monday, August 3, 2015

See history in action at a special “Living History Weekend” on Aug. 8 and 9 at Fort Delaware State Park.




DNREC’s Division of Parks & Recreation named as finalist for 2015 National Gold Medal Awards

Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control | Division of Parks and Recreation | News | Date Posted: Monday, June 1, 2015

The American Academy for Park and Recreation Administration (AAPRA), in partnership with the National Recreation and Park Association (NRPA), has announced that DNREC’s Division of Parks & Recreation (Delaware State Parks) is one of four finalists for the 2015 National Gold Medal Awards for Excellence in Park and Recreation Management in the state parks systems category.




The Point at Cape Henlopen State Park to close for 2015 beachnesting season

Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control | Division of Parks and Recreation | Date Posted: Monday, February 23, 2015

The Point at Cape Henlopen State Park, including a stretch of ocean beach and dunes, and a half mile along the bay shoreline, will close beginning Sunday, March 1, for the benefit of threatened and endangered beachnesters and migratory shorebirds, including red knot, piping plovers, oystercatchers, least terns and other species.







  Category: Division of Parks and Recreation

DNREC reminds residents that ocean dunes in state parks are closed to sledding, snowboarding

Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control | Division of Parks and Recreation | Date Posted: Thursday, January 21, 2016

The DNREC Division of Parks and Recreation is asking the public to help protect the dunes in Delaware’s ocean parks by reminding residents and visitors that sledding in the dunes at Cape Henlopen, Delaware Seashore and Fenwick Island State Parks is prohibited.




DNREC’S Division of Parks and Recreation receives major land donation from Nemours Foundation for Alapocas Run State Park

Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control | Division of Parks and Recreation | New Castle County | Date Posted: Tuesday, November 24, 2015

The Nemours Foundation has donated nearly 46 acres of significant forestland to the DNREC Division of Parks and Recreation’s Alapocas Run State Park, located just outside Wilmington




Experience living history at Fort Delaware State Park’s “Infantry Weekend”

Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control | Division of Parks and Recreation | Date Posted: Monday, August 3, 2015

See history in action at a special “Living History Weekend” on Aug. 8 and 9 at Fort Delaware State Park.




DNREC’s Division of Parks & Recreation named as finalist for 2015 National Gold Medal Awards

Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control | Division of Parks and Recreation | News | Date Posted: Monday, June 1, 2015

The American Academy for Park and Recreation Administration (AAPRA), in partnership with the National Recreation and Park Association (NRPA), has announced that DNREC’s Division of Parks & Recreation (Delaware State Parks) is one of four finalists for the 2015 National Gold Medal Awards for Excellence in Park and Recreation Management in the state parks systems category.




The Point at Cape Henlopen State Park to close for 2015 beachnesting season

Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control | Division of Parks and Recreation | Date Posted: Monday, February 23, 2015

The Point at Cape Henlopen State Park, including a stretch of ocean beach and dunes, and a half mile along the bay shoreline, will close beginning Sunday, March 1, for the benefit of threatened and endangered beachnesters and migratory shorebirds, including red knot, piping plovers, oystercatchers, least terns and other species.