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Celebrate Your Birthday at Lakeside Nature Center!
Packages include a 2 ½-hour rental with
a 30-minute live animal presentation by a
Nature Center naturalist.
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Rehab and Release Program
It was a long road to recovery, but this groundhog is now healthy and free.
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Be a Friend
Support the Nature Center with wildlife rehabilitation, events, educational programming, native garden and habitat creation and much more.
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Hike with a Naturalist
Our next hike is Saturday, July 20th.
Free, guided hikes on the Fox Hollow trail feature topics on habitats and geology.
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Mother Nature Reads – Storytelling
Our next event is Saturday, August 3rd.
Join Mother Nature for a fun morning of storytelling for children.
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Native Garden Work Day
Saturday, Aug. 10th, 8 to 10 am
Volunteers are welcome to join this native garden work day to plant, weed and deadhead the native gardens around Lakeside Nature Center.