WELCOME TO GRAND TRAVERSE COUNTY’S GATEWAY TO THE NATURAL WORLD
Built in 2008 on the banks of the Boardman River on the Grand Traverse Natural Education Reserve, the Boardman River Nature Center is your gateway to the Natural World.
The Nature Center offers an interpretive gallery and rotating exhibits that change with the seasons. The displays encourage interaction and feature Michigan’s most interesting fauna and flora.
Operated by the Grand Traverse Conservation District, the Nature Center allows us to deliver education programs right at the source, on the doorstep to a 505-acre living laboratory.
In 2022, the Grand Traverse Conservation District opened a Nature Playscape behind the Boardman River Nature Center. A Nature Playscape is a natural, free-play area where children can interact with nature through sensory learning experiences by engaging with and manipulating diverse natural elements and materials. A mud-kitchen, ADA path and ADA-accessible eagle's nest, rock river, beaver dam, and climbable spider web are just a few of the components that bring nature to children's daily outdoor play and learning environments.
HOURS & LOCATION
1450 Cass Rd.
Traverse City, MI 49685
(1.5 miles South of South Airport Rd.)
The Boardman River Nature Center is open to the public Tuesday - Friday 10:00am-4:00pm with a suggested donation of $5.00.
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