Choose Your Gift Membership Plan
Give a gift of membership, and let your friends and family enjoy a whole year of adventure at the WNC Nature Center!
Choose from personalized gift memberships or membership gift certificates for yet-to-be-named recipients. Gift memberships are valid for one year from the date of purchase. A membership purchased with a gift certificate is valid for one year from the date it is redeemed.
Membership Gift Certificates are valid only for membership, have no expiration date, and can be redeemed online, in person, or by mail.
Orders placed by Tuesday, December 16, will be mailed USPS by Wednesday, December 17.
Dual
Includes all membership benefits for one adult and one guest
or two named adults
or one named adult and one child in the same household
Family
Includes all membership benefits for two adults and four children/ grandchildren under 18
FamilyPLUS
Includes all membership benefits for two adults and four children/ grandchildren under 18
PLUS two additional people, adults or children
Wildlife Benefactor
FamilyPlus Membership for one year + 2 Wild Walk or Junior Wild Walk tickets
Wildlife Patron
FamilyPlus Membership for one year + a private tour of the Nature Center for up to 6 people
Online Gift Shop
With plush animals, shirts, jewelry, and drinkware, you can find a gift for everyone this holiday season!
Stop by the Nature Center Gift Shop to check out our holiday gift options in person!
Orders placed by Wednesday, December 17, will be shipped USPS Priority by Thursday, December 18.
Adopt An Animal
You’ll receive an adopt certificate, animal photo, fact sheet, and a plush animal and guest passes at higher adopt levels.
Centennial Animal Promotion: Use code ADOPTME for 50 percent off $100 and $50 adoptions of our special centennial animals while supplies last!
Orders placed by Wednesday, December 17, will be mailed USPS First Class by Thursday, December 18.
Amazon Animal Wishlist
We know a few animals who have been especially good!
Gifts of enrichment items stimulate our animals and strengthen their natural instincts. Buy a gift for the animals this holiday season on our AmazonSmile wishlist.
Bricks, Benches, & Picnic Tables
Celebrate the important people in your life with a lasting gift they can see when they visit.
Email [email protected] to learn about purchasing a bench or picnic table. Click below to purchase a brick.
Private Tours
Enjoy a customized experience with an educator, as well as a private guided tour around the Nature Center to discuss the ecology of our native wildlife species and the unique stories of how they came to the Nature Center.
This experience lasts 60 to 90 minutes and includes admission to the wildlife park for the day.
Outreach Education Sponsorship
Your gift recipient will receive a certificate notifying them that you have gifted an outreach education lesson to a local classroom in their honor.
Due to the nature of this affordable program, we are unable to have you choose a specific school for the gift. If you’d like to sponsor a visit to your child’s class, please work with the teacher to use our outreach program request form.
Give & Get with Give!Local
- Donate $25+ and get a day pass to the WNC Nature Center.
- Donate $50+ and get an enamel Nature Center Centennial lapel pin and a day pass.
- Donate $100+ and get a locally drawn animal sticker, wooden Nature Center Centennial ornament, lapel pin, and a day pass.
- Donate $250+ and get all of the above and an invitation to our special engagement, Tea & Turtles. PLUS, you’ll be entered to win a chance to go on habitat with red panda Phoenix in 2026!
- Donate $500+ and get all of the above, plus a private guided tour of the Nature Center for two people with animal enrichment!