The 152-acre preserve is our foundation, but education is our focus. Each year the Ogden Nature Center brings more than 50,000 children, teachers, and adults together with nature through hands-on field classes. Participants in our education programs, both for school groups and for the community, observe and learn about plants and animals up-close, discovering the pleasure of being in nature and realizing their own connection to the environment.
Fall has arrived! Help us bring in the new season as we learn how animals and plants adapt to a changing environment of less sunlight and cooler temperatures.
Spots, stripes, and spirals, and all sorts of other shapes show up throughout the natural world. Join us as we learn about different shapes and patterns common in nature and how they help animals and plants survive and thrive.
A Special Independance Day Program with Des Ta Te the Bald Eagle.
Join an ONC teacher/naturalist as you uncover the secret lives of salamanders. Meet a live tiger salamander as you learn about their life history, habitat and more.
From hitchhiking on our shoes, being carried in the bellies of animals, and soaring through the wind, seeds go through quite an adventure to find new areas to grow. Explore the unseen, wild world of seeds.
Badgers, Otters, Ferrets -Oh My! -Investigate the smelly world of mustelids. Explore a local endangered mustelid and find out why the skunk, although smelly, doesnÕt fit in this group anymore.
Celebrate the summer solstice with the Ogden Nature Center. Find out why some days are longer than others. With the help of a few live animal friends, discover how animals and plants, inlcuding us, adjust to the long days of summer.
The dog days of summer are finally here! There's no better time to grab a net and explore what lives within our ponds. You never know what or who you might find.
Check out songbirds social media as you learn how birds communicate.
Join Ogden Nature Center as we celebrate our veterans with Navy veteran Heidi and Des Ta Te the bald eagle!
Buzz on over to the nature center to learn all about UtahÕs bees. Over 900 species of bee call Utah home. Find out what makes bees so special and why we need them buzzing around.
Learn about predator prey relationships with the help of one of our bird predators and its prey. Get an up-close look at live animals, skulls, pelts, teeth, and more while learning about the traits that help animals survive in the wild.
Meet Ontario our Red Tail Hawk while discovering what makes a buteo a buteo. Observe firsthand how buteos differ from all other raptors.