List of nature centers in Connecticut
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Connecticut Nature Centers (Hover mouse over pog to popup clickable link)This is a list of nature centers and environmental education centers in the state of Connecticut.
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Name | Location | County | Summary |
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Ansonia Nature and Recreation Center | Ansonia | New Haven | website, town owned and operated 150-acre park and nature center |
Audubon Center at Bent of the River | Southbury | New Haven | Part of the National Audubon Society, 700 acres with 15 miles of trails |
Audubon Greenwich | Greenwich | Fairfield | website, part of the National Audubon Society, main sanctuary is 285 acres with 7 miles of trails |
Barnard Nature Center at West River Memorial Park | New Haven | New Haven | website, operated by the City, partnership with the Barnard Environmental Magnet School across the street, focus is the West River |
Barnes Nature Center | Bristol | Hartford | website, operated by the Environmental Learning Centers of Connecticut |
Bartlett Arboretum and Gardens | Stamford | Fairfield | Contains 91 acres (37 hectares) of parkland, gardens, landscapes and hiking trails |
Bauer Park | Madison | New Haven | website, 65 acre park and former farm |
Brookfield Nature Center | Brookfield | Fairfield | website, 16 acre park and former farm with walking trails and brook |
Bushy Hill Nature Center | Essex | Middlesex | website, over 700 acres |
Chatfield Hollow State Park | Killingworth | Middlesex | 356 acres, Oak Lodge Nature Center open seasonally |
Connecticut Audubon Society Birdcraft Museum and Sanctuary | Fairfield | Fairfield | Operated by Connecticut Audubon, 6 acres, natural history museum |
Connecticut Audubon Society Center at Fairfield | Fairfield | Fairfield | Operated by Connecticut Audubon, 152 acres with 7 miles of trails |
Connecticut Audubon Society Center at Glastonbury | Glastonbury | Hartford | Adjacent to the 48-acre town-owned Earle Park, focus is Connecticut River ecosystem |
Connecticut Audubon Society Coastal Center at Milford Point | Milford | New Haven | Operated by Connecticut Audubon, located on an 8.4-acre (34,000 m2) barrier beach and situated next to the 840-acre Charles E. Wheeler Wildlife Management Area |
Connecticut Audubon Society Center at Pomfret | Pomfret | Windham | Adjacent 702-acre Baffin Sanctuary, also hosts art exhibits |
Connecticut Audubon Society Center at Trail Wood | Hampton | Windham | 168 acres, former home of author Edwin Way Teale |
Darien Nature Center | Darien | Fairfield | website, located in 26-acre Cherry Lawn Park |
Denison Pequotsepos Nature Center | Mystic | New London | website, maintains 77 acres with 8 miles of trails from the Denison Homestead |
Earthplace | Westport | Fairfield | 62 acre sanctuary with 2 miles of trails, natural history museum |
Eleanor Buck Wolf Nature Center | Wethersfield | Hartford | website, operated by the Town |
Flanders Nature Center & Land Trust | Woodbury | Litchfield | Protects 2,000 acres of open space in several towns including seven nature preserves and sanctuaries |
Goodwin Forest Conservation Education Center | Hampton | Windham | Operated by the CT DEEP in the 2000-acre James L. Goodwin State Forest |
Henry Hamel Environmental Center | Seymour | New Haven | website, operated by the Seymour Land Trust |
Highstead Arboretum | West Redding | Fairfield | Over 100 acres and 2 miles of trails, open to members |
Hungerford Nature Center | Berlin | Hartford | website, a demonstration farm, exotic animals, trails, and science exhibits; operated by the New Britain Youth Museum |
Kellogg Environmental Center | Derby | New Haven | website, operated by the CT DEEP, offers workshops, exhibits, nature activities, and lectures for the general public |
Meigs Point Nature Center | Madison | New Haven | Located at Hammonasset Beach State Park, open year round |
New Canaan Nature Center | New Canaan | Fairfield | 40 acres |
New Pond Farm | Redding | Fairfield | website, 102 acres with small working farm |
Northwest Park Nature Center | Windsor | Hartford | 473 acres, features natural history, geology and meteorology exhibits, adjacent barn with farm animals |
Platt Nature Center | Killingworth | Middlesex | website, 9 acres |
Pratt Nature Center | New Milford | Litchfield | website, 201 acres |
Oak Grove Nature Center | Manchester | Hartford | 52 acres, open for programs by the Lutz Children's Museum |
Old Quarry Nature Center | Danbury | Fairfield | 80 acres |
Riverbound Farm | Cheshire | New Haven | Quinnipiac Valley Audubon Society, 23 acres, center open once a month |
Roaring Brook Nature Center | Canton | Hartford | website, adjacent to the 165-acre Werner's Woods state preserve, affiliated with The Children's Museum, Connecticut |
Rocky Neck State Park | East Lyme | New London | 710 acre park and beach, small nature center open seasonally |
Sessions Woods Wildlife Management Area | Burlington | Hartford | 771-acre state preserve, conservation education programs |
Sharon Audubon Center | Sharon | Litchfield | 1,200 acres, includes a raptor aviary, herb garden, bird and butterfly garden, and a sugarhouse |
Sherwood Island State Park Nature Center | Westport | Fairfield | Open seasonally, 234-acre park and beach, tidal wetlands on Long Island Sound |
Shoreline Outdoor Education Center | North Guilford | New Haven | website, located on 6 acres of town property |
Soundwaters | Stamford | Fairfield | website, education about Long Island Sound, located in Cove Island Park |
Stamford Museum and Nature Center | Stamford | Fairfield | 118 acres, art, history and nature museum, 10 acre working farm; trails connect to the Bartlett Arboretum |
Stratton Brook State Park | Simsbury | Hartford | Nature center is open seasonally |
Trumbull Nature & Arts Center | Trumbull | Fairfield | website |
Webb Mountain Discovery Zone | Monroe | Fairfield | 171 acres, outdoor learning center, owned by the town |
Westmoor Park | West Hartford | Hartford | 162 acres, self-funded, features demonstration farm |
West Rock Nature Center | New Haven | New Haven | website, operated by the City, 43 acres on West Rock Ridge |
White Memorial Conservation Center | Litchfield | Litchfield | 4,000 acre-preserve, nature museum |
Woodcock Nature Center | Wilton | Fairfield | website 149 acres with 5 miles of trails including boardwalks and viewing platforms, preserve and trails open to the public year round, self-funded, public programs, and summer camps |
Resources
- Connecticut Outdoor and Environmental Education Association
External links
- Map of Connecticut nature centers and environmental education centers
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- Above All
- Air Line
- Beaver Brook
- Becket Hill State Park Reserve
- Beckley Furnace Industrial Monument
- Bennett's Pond
- Bigelow Hollow
- Black Rock
- Bluff Point
- Bolton Notch
- Brainard Homestead
- Burr Pond
- Camp Columbia
- Campbell Falls
- Chatfield Hollow
- Collis P. Huntington
- Connecticut Valley Railroad
- Dart Island State Park
- Day Pond
- Dennis Hill
- Devil's Hopyard
- Dinosaur
- Eagle Landing
- Farm River
- Farmington Canal
- Fort Griswold Battlefield
- Fort Trumbull
- Gardner Lake
- Gay City
- George Dudley Seymour
- George Waldo
- Gillette Castle
- Haddam Island
- Haddam Meadows
- Haley Farm
- Hammonasset Beach
- Harkness Memorial
- Haystack Mountain
- Higganum Reservoir
- Hop River State Park Trail
- Hopemead
- Hopeville Pond
- Horse Guard
- Housatonic Meadows
- Humaston Brook
- Hurd
- Indian Well
- John A. Minetto
- Kent Falls
- Kettletown
- Killingly Pond
- Lake Waramaug
- Lamentation Mountain
- Larkin State Park Trail
- Lovers Leap
- Macedonia Brook
- Machimoodus
- Mansfield Hollow
- Mashamoquet Brook
- Mianus River
- Millers Pond
- Minnie Island
- Mohawk Mountain
- Mono Pond
- Moosup Valley State Park Trail
- Mooween
- Mount Bushnell
- Mount Riga
- Mount Tom
- Old Furnace
- Osbornedale
- Penwood
- Platt Hill
- Pomeroy
- Putnam Memorial
- Quaddick
- Quinebaug Lake
- Quinnipiac River
- River Highlands
- Rocky Glen
- Rocky Neck
- Ross Pond
- Salt Rock State Campground
- Satan's Kingdom State Recreation Area
- Scantic River
- Selden Neck
- Seth Low Pierrepont
- Sherwood Island
- Silver Sands
- Sleeping Giant
- Southford Falls
- Squantz Pond
- Stillwater Pond
- Stoddard Hill
- Stratton Brook
- Sunnybrook
- Sunrise
- Talcott Mountain
- Tri-Mountain
- Trout Brook Valley
- Wadsworth Falls
- West Rock Ridge
- Wharton Brook
- Whittemore Glen
- Windsor Locks Canal State Park Trail
- Windsor Meadows
- Wooster Mountain
- Algonquin
- American Legion
- Centennial Watershed
- Cockaponset
- Enders
- James L. Goodwin
- Housatonic
- Massacoe
- Mattatuck
- Meshomasic
- Mohawk
- Mohegan
- Nassahegon
- Natchaug
- Nathan Hale
- Naugatuck
- Nehantic
- Nepaug
- Nipmuck
- Nye-Holman
- Pachaug
- Paugnut
- Paugussett
- People's
- Pootatuck
- Quaddick
- Salmon River
- Shenipsit
- Topsmead
- Tunxis
- Wyantenock
- Aldo Leopold WMA
- Assekonk WMA
- Babcock Pond WMA
- Barber Pond WMA
- Barn Island WMA
- Bartlett Brook WMA
- Bear Hill WMA
- Belding WMA
- Bishops Swamp WMA
- Black Pond WMA
- Candlewood Hill WMA
- Cedar Swamp WMA
- Charles E. Wheeler WMA
- Cromwell Meadows WMA
- Durham Meadows WMA
- East River Marsh WMA
- East Swamp WMA
- Eightmile River WMA
- Franklin Swamp WMA
- Goshen WMA
- Great Harbor WMA
- Higganum Meadows WMA
- Housatonic River WMA
- King's Island Coop WMA
- Kollar WMA
- Larson Lot WMA
- Little River Fish and Wildlife Area
- Lord's Cove WMA
- Maromas Coop WMA
- Meadow Brook WMA
- Menunketesuck WMA
- Messerschmidt WMA
- Newgate WMA
- Nod Brook WMA
- Nott Island WMA
- Pease Brook WMA
- Plum Bank WMA
- Quinebaug River WMA
- Quinnipiac River Marsh WMA
- Ragged Rock WMA
- Raymond Brook Marsh WMA
- Robbins Swamp WMA
- Roger Tory Peterson Wildlife Area
- Roraback WMA
- Rose Hill WMA
- Ross Marsh WMA
- Salmon River Cove and Haddam Neck WMA
- Sessions Woods WMA
- Simsbury WMA
- Skiff Mountain Coop WMA
- James V. Spignesi WMA
- Stanley Works WMA
- Suffield WMA
- Talbot WMA
- Tankerhoosen WMA
- Wangunk Meadows WMA
- Wopowog WMA
- Zemko Pond WMA
- Aspetuck Reservoir
- Barkhamsted Reservoir
- Beaver Dam Lake
- Candlewood Lake
- Easton Reservoir
- Far Mill Reservoir
- Hemlock Reservoir
- Hop Brook Lake
- Lake Lillinonah
- Mansfield Hollow Lake
- Means Brook
- Saugatuck Reservoir
- Trap Falls Reservoir
- West Hartford Reservoir
- West Pequonnock Reservoir
- Lake Zoar
- Aspetuck Land Trust
- Aton Forest
- Audubon Center at Bent of the River
- Bartlett Arboretum and Gardens
- Bear Mountain
- Beckley Bog
- Branford Land Trust
- Case Mountain
- Cathedral Pines
- Connecticut Audubon Society Center at Fairfield
- Connecticut College Arboretum
- Devil's Den Preserve
- Earthplace
- Great Mountain Forest
- Higby Mountain
- Highstead Arboretum
- Joshua's Tract Conservation and Historic Trust
- McLean Game Refuge
- New Canaan Nature Center
- Peter's Rock
- Pine Mountain Reserve
- Saltonstall Mountain
- Stamford Museum & Nature Center
- Steep Rock Association
- Weantinoge Heritage Land Trust
- White Memorial Foundation
- Woodcock Nature Center
- Yale-Myers Forest
- American Legion State Forest Trails
- Aspetuck Valley Trail
- Blue-Blazed Trails
- Chatfield Trail
- Hancock Brook Trail
- Housatonic Range Trail
- Lillinonah Trail
- Mattabesett Trail
- Menunkatuck Trail
- Metacomet Trail
- Narragansett Trail
- Natchaug Trail
- Naugatuck Trail
- Nehantic Trail
- Nipmuck Trail
- Paugussett Trail
- Pequot Trail
- Quinnipiac Trail
- Regicides Trail
- Salmon River Trail
- Shenipsit Trail
- Tunxis Trail
- Westwoods Trails
- Whitestone Cliffs Trail
- Zoar Trail
- List of nature centers in Connecticut
Forest/Parks
- Bear Mountain Reservation
- Beardsley Park
- Burr Farm Protected Open Space
- East Rock Park
- Gurski Farm Protected Open Space
- Happy Landings Protected Open Space
- Lighthouse Point Park
- Lillinonah Woods
- Mill River Park
- Old Bridge Sanctuary
- Pleasure Beach
- Roosevelt Forest
- Salt Meadow Park
- Seaside Park
- Webb Mountain Discovery Zone
- Webb Mountain Park