There are picnic shelters at the park, too.ĭiscovery Park is also right next door to the Muscatine Arboretum and the Old Barn and just across the street from Muscatine's Fuller Park, which contains our disc golf course, making Discovery Park a great place to start a fun day in Muscatine.ĭiscovery Park is conveniently located at 3300 Cedar St., on the west side of Muscatine near the corner of Highway 61 and Cedar Street. Dont forget to stop by the Nature Shop, where youll find a variety of environmental and educational gifts including toys, souvenirs from the region, field. and generate learning through discovery and a hands-on approach. Venture up the Skagit River in northwestern Washington State deep into the mountains. Jennings Environmental Education Center is one of several state parks specifically. The park is a popular fishing spot as well as it boasts two stocked fishing ponds and two fishing docks, one of which is handicapped accessible. a field campus in North Cascades National Park. Walking and biking in Discovery Park are two favorite activities as there are nearly 2-miles of hard-surfaced hiking/biking trails and 1.5 miles of mowed trails. The park is home to the Environmental Learning Center, which contains two 1,200 gallon aquariums with native fish, live reptiles and amphibians. She is also a licensed wildlife rehabilitator and shares her home with six fish, five orphaned baby opossums, three cats, three orphaned raccoons, three orphaned baby squirrels, one yellow-bellied slider, and one rescued domestic rabbit.This 100 acre park features a reclaimed farmstead, fishing ponds, small streams, a wildlife viewing blind and an outdoor raptor enclosure. She specializes in amphibians and reptiles, bugs and aquatic invertebrates, growing native plants for butterfly gardening, and loves answering weird questions about Indiana wildlife. Register or Buy Tickets, Price information. Event starts on Sunday, 6 August 2023 and happening at Sagawau Environmental Learning Center, Lemont, IL. Her favorite things about the park include the amazing diversity of park visitors, the small, hidden vernal pools teeming with fairy shrimp and baby salamanders in the spring, and the sound of loons (the bird kind) calling on the reservoir. The Hum about Hummingbirds Hosted By Sagawau Environmental Learning Center. She then moved on to complete graduate work in wildlife science with Purdue University’s Department of Forestry before coming back to work full-time at Eagle Creek Park. She attended Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts where she majored in biology and minored in studio art. For a current list of Eagle Creek programs, please visit this Indy Parks page.ĭawn is an Indianapolis native who started working at Eagle Creek Park as a seasonal naturalist back in 1994. When you venture outside, you can take in a beautiful view of the reservoir out on the deck, or hop on the nearby hiking trails.Īs well as field trips, naturalists host over 100 nature-based public programs, events, and summer day camps. Other wildlife educational ambassadors may make appearances at scheduled program times. Inside the center you’ll find exhibits and information about native Indiana plants and animals, including aquariums with live native reptiles, fish, and amphibians, taxidermy mounts, and replicas. Now, the larger building caters to over 80,000 annual visitors and hosts thousands of students every year on field trips to learn about the natural world.Īs soon as you walk in, it’s very likely you’ll be greeted by some sort of creature! That might be a snail, or during the summertime, you can even catch the morphing of a caterpillar into a monarch butterfly right at the front desk. The old original nature center, now known as the Ornithology Center, attracted around 40,000 guests per year, and only had the capacity to hold one classroom of students.
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