WE ARE NATURE.
Boulder County’s only all-ages nature center open 360 days of the year.
And it’s free!
CALENDAR OF EVENTS
Learn, play & expand your connection to nature through one of our many upcoming programs/events!
GROUP PROGRAMS
Plan an unforgettable day of learning, team building, and fun for your class, homeschool program, Scout group, staff, friends, or family.
WE WANT YOU TO…
RECONNECT
It’s easy to feel disconnected in a hyper-connected world. We are all about helping people connect with nature & each other.
PLAY
Make a fairy house, find a fossil, learn a new bird call … we believe you are never too young or too old to delight in nature.
PROTECT
Connecting people to nature is a vital step in conserving wild places and addressing the climate crisis.
Now, more than ever, we need nature and nature needs us.
Learn more about what Wild Bear is doing to be part of the solution!
OUR LATEST WILD IDEAS
Check out our blog posts to learn about bird migration, nature crafts to do with your child, and more!
"We fell in love with the center and its mission on our first visit. After trying a couple of Wild Bear classes when our son was 3, he loved it so much that we knew it was worth our time."
- Wild Bear Parent
HAVE YOU HAD A GOOD EXPERIENCE WITH US HERE AT WILD BEAR?
WE NEED NATURE AND NATURE NEEDS US
Now more than ever we need nature, and nature needs us. Since 1995, Wild Bear Nature Center has inspired lifelong connections to nature and community through creative exploration of the outdoors. Specializing in mountain ecology, Wild Bear welcomes visitors to its free hands-on nature center and provides year-round environmental education programs for people of all ages and backgrounds. Once a Wild Bear, Always a Wild Bear.
COMMITMENT TO INCLUSIVITY
Wild Bear Nature Center welcomes ALL individuals as visitors, participants, volunteers, board members, and employees. We do not discriminate with regard to race, color, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, religion, belief, creed, nationality, ethnicity, disability, or age.
LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
In the spirit of truth and equity, it is with gratitude and humility that Wild Bear Nature Center acknowledges it is located and occupies the ancestral, traditional and contemporary lands of the Cheyenne, Arapahoe, and Ute as well as several other Indigenous peoples. We recognize Indigenous individuals and communities who live here now, and those who were forcibly removed from their homelands. In offering this land acknowledgement, we affirm Indigenous sovereignty, history and experiences. We understand that our acknowledgement requires those of us who are non-native to recognize our own place in and responsibilities towards addressing inequity, and that this ongoing and challenging work requires that we commit to real engagement with the local Indigenous communities to build an inclusive and equitable space for all.