Weilenmann students discovering in the school’s backyard

Michele Roepke
Oct 5, 2021

Discovering. Photo: courtesy of Weilenmann School of Discovery

PARK CITY, Utah — Fifth-graders at the Weilenmann School of Discovery played frisbee golf this week on the ‘Lolli Pop’ trail on a course that also doubles as their mini-golf course.

Frisbee golf. Photo courtesy of the Weilenmann School of Discovery

The third grade, “just happened to plan their weekly hike on one of the most spectacular fall days in Utah,” said Weilenmann administrators in a statement.

Other sport-centered activities engaged in by the students in the fall foliage located literally in their school’s backyard, were trail running and walking-stick-finding.

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