Creatures like this Pileated Woodpecker greet visitors and share stories along the trails at Audubon Community Nature Center’s Enchanted Forest. From firefly trail guides to popcorn servers, Audubon needs volunteers to make the event possible.

Each year, dozens of volunteers share their time and talents so hundreds of children and adults can experience Audubon Community Nature Center’s Enchanted Forest.

Some volunteers act as guides through a luminary-lit Enchanted Trail where children and adults meet animals that speak human language and communicate with visitors. Others are greeters or actors’ assistants or serve popcorn and cider to guests around the campfire that follows, while still others monitor crafts. And clean-up helpers are always needed.

Sharon Tefft, Audubon volunteer coordinator, is looking for volunteers for Friday, Oct. 4, and Saturday, Oct. 5. Contact her at STefft@AudubonCNC.org or 716569-2345.

Audubon also welcomes sponsors of Enchanted Forest. For more information, email Leigh Rovegno, Audubon executive director, at LRovegno@AudubonCNC.or or 716-569-2345 to learn more.

Reservations for Enchanted Forest can be made by calling 716-569-2345 during business hours or clicking through “Programs and Events” at AudubonCNC.org.

Sponsors include Bruce and Juline Battler, Carnahan-Jackson Foundation, Chautauqua Region Community Foundation, Donna and Mark Hampton, Holmberg Foundation, Hultquist Foundation, Jessie Smith Darrah Fund, The Lenna Foundation, The Ralph C. Sheldon Foundation, Whirley-DrinkWorks!, Hal and Mary Conarro, Cummins Jamestown Engine Plant, Kravitz Tree Service, Doug and Lamae McCullor, National Fuel Gas Company, Weinberg Financial Group, and Curt and Susie Westrom.

The Audubon Community Nature Center is located at 1600 Riverside Road, one-quarter mile east of Route 62 between Jamestown and Warren. Visit the nearly 600-acre nature preserve, check in on the live birds of prey, use the native tree arboretum and natural play space, and hike more than five miles of trails dawn until dusk daily for free.

The three-story Nature Center building houses interactive displays, a collection of live animals including the Hellbender exhibit, and the Blue Heron Gift Shop. Visitors are welcome Mondays through Saturdays, 10 a.m.to 4:30 p.m., and Sundays, 1 to 4:30 p.m. Nature Center members and SNAP/EBT cardholders have free building admission daily. Building admission is also free every Sunday for non-Nature Center members.