Open 361 Days a Year: Admissions 10:00am – 3:30pm; park closes at 4:30pm
This summer at the Environmental Educators of North Carolina (EENC) conference, hundreds of formal and informal educators came together virtually to learn everything education! At the end of the conference, it
September 19 marks International Red Panda Day, and the WNC Nature Center has a lot to celebrate! It has officially been a year and a half since the red pandas,
Walking along the one and a half miles of pathways within the WNC Nature Center, you’ll encounter playful otters, howling gray and red wolves, and napping red pandas. You’ll also
In the world of animal care, there’s one thing you can always count on: there’s always more to learn. The science of caring for wild and domestic animals is constantly
On average, 30,000 guests visit the WNC Nature Center in March and April. This year, only 3,700 visited in March before the gates were closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Nature Center’s teen volunteers celebrated the end of the Fall 2019 Young Curators season by surveying the Swannanoa River for mudpuppy salamanders. Kendrick Weeks, the Western Wildlife Diversity Supervisor
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