List of nature centers in Massachusetts

This is a list of nature centers and environmental education centers in the state of Massachusetts.

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Name	Location	County	Region	Summary
Arcadia Wildlife Sanctuary	Easthampton	Hampshire	Pioneer Valley	website, operated by the Massachusetts Audubon Society, 732 acres with 5 miles of trails
Arunah Hill Natural Science Center	Cummington	Hampshire	Pioneer Valley	website, 60 acres, 6 miles of trails, focus is astronomy, science and nature education
Blue Hills Trailside Museum	Milton	Norfolk	Greater Boston	Operated by the Massachusetts Audubon Society, interpretive center for the 7000-acre Blue Hills Reservation state park
Boston Nature Center and Wildlife Sanctuary	Mattapan	Suffolk	Greater Boston	website, 64 acres, operated by the Massachusetts Audubon Society, 2 miles of trails, located on the grounds of the old Boston State Hospital
Broad Meadow Brook Conservation Center and Wildlife Sanctuary	Worcester	Worcester	Worcester County	website, 430 acres, operated by the Massachusetts Audubon Society
Broadmoor Wildlife Sanctuary	Natick	Middlesex	Greater Boston	website, 854 acres with 9 miles of trails, Saltonstall Nature Center, operated by the Massachusetts Audubon Society
Camp Nihan	Saugus	Essex	North Shore	65 acres, managed by the Department of Conservation and Recreation (Massachusetts)
Cape Cod Museum of Natural History	Brewster	Barnstable	Cape Cod	website, natural history exhibits, aquarium, steward of 400-plus acres of museum-owned land in Stony Brook Valley and Brewster
Capen Hill Nature Sanctuary	Charlton	Worcester	Worcester County	website, 86 acres
Drumlin Farm Wildlife Sanctuary	Lincoln	Middlesex	Greater Boston	website, 232 acres, operated by the Massachusetts Audubon Society
Daniel Webster Wildlife Sanctuary	Marshfield	Plymouth	Plymouth County	507 acres, operated by the Massachusetts Audubon Society, managed by North River Wildlife Sanctuary
EcoTarium	Worcester	Worcester	Worcester County	Natural history and science museum, live animals, 50 acres, tree canopy, planetarium
Felix Neck Wildlife Sanctuary	Edgartown	Dukes	Martha's Vineyard	website, 321 acres, operated by the Massachusetts Audubon Society on Martha's Vineyard
Great Falls Discovery Center	Turners Falls	Franklin	Pioneer Valley	website, 4 acres, interpretive center for the Silvio O. Conte National Fish and Wildlife Refuge, Connecticut River Watershed's natural, cultural and industrial history
Green Briar Nature Center	East Sandwich	Barnstable	Cape Cod	website, operated by the Thornton W. Burgess Society, adjacent to the 57-acre Briar Patch Conservation Area
Habitat Education Center and Wildlife Sanctuary	Belmont	Middlesex	Greater Boston	website, 93 acres, operated by the Massachusetts Audubon Society, located 6 miles northwest of downtown Boston
Hitchcock Center for the Environment	Amherst	Hampshire	Pioneer Valley	website, located on the 20-acre Larch Hill Conservation Area
Ipswich River Wildlife Sanctuary	Topsfield	Essex	North Shore	Operated by the Massachusetts Audubon Society, 2,800-acre preserve with over 12 miles of interconnecting trails
Joppa Flats Education Center and Wildlife Sanctuary	Newburyport	Essex	North Shore	website, 52 acres, operated by the Massachusetts Audubon Society, located near the Parker River National Wildlife Refuge and the Plum Island estuary
Lloyd Center for the Environment	South Dartmouth	Bristol	Southeastern Massachusetts	55 acres, focuses on coastal and watershed issues and conducting research on coastal ecosystems and endangered species
Marion Natural History Museum	Marion	Plymouth	Plymouth County	website, specializes in the natural history of local coastal and offshore areas
Moose Hill Wildlife Sanctuary	Sharon	Norfolk	Greater Boston	1,984 acres, operated by the Massachusetts Audubon Society, features 25 mile trail system
Museum of American Bird Art at Mass Audubon	Canton	Norfolk	Greater Boston	website, operated by the Massachusetts Audubon Society, located on the 124-acre Mildred Morse Allen Wildlife Sanctuary
North River Wildlife Sanctuary	Marshfield	Plymouth	Plymouth County	184 acres, operated by the Massachusetts Audubon Society
Norcross Wildlife Sanctuary	Wales	Hampden	Pioneer Valley	About 8,000 acres, maintained by the Norcross Wildlife Foundation
Oak Knoll Wildlife Sanctuary	Attleboro	Bristol	Southeastern Massachusetts	website, 50 acres, operated by the Massachusetts Audubon Society
Pleasant Valley Wildlife Sanctuary	Lenox	Berkshire	The Berkshires	website, 1,142 acres, operated by the Massachusetts Audubon Society
Sheep Hill	Williamstown	Berkshire	The Berkshires	website, 50-acre former dairy farm with nature exhibits, operated by the Williamstown Rural Lands Foundation
Sherburne Nature Center	Tyngsborough	Middlesex	Greater Boston	website, 80 acres, operated by the Town
South Shore Natural Science Center	Norwell	Plymouth	Plymouth County	website, located on 30 acres surrounded by 200 acres of town conservation/recreation land
Stony Brook Wildlife Sanctuary	Norfolk	Norfolk	Greater Boston	website, 86 acres, operated by the Massachusetts Audubon Society
Wachusett Meadow Wildlife Sanctuary	Princeton	Worcester	Worcester County	website, 1,011 acres, operated by the Massachusetts Audubon Society
Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary	South Wellfleet	Barnstable	Cape Cod	website Archived 2013-11-13 at the Wayback Machine, 944 acres, operated by the Massachusetts Audubon Society, Esther Underwood Johnson Nature Center contains two 700-gallon aquariums

Resources

Massachusetts Environmental Education Society

External links

Map of nature centers and environmental education centers in Massachusetts

Protected areas of Massachusetts

Federal

National Historical Parks	Adams Blackstone River Valley Boston Lowell Minute Man New Bedford Whaling
National Historic Sites	Boston African American Frederick Law Olmsted John Fitzgerald Kennedy Longfellow House–Washington's Headquarters Salem Maritime Saugus Iron Works Springfield Armory
Other National Park Service units	Appalachian National Scenic Trail Boston Harbor Islands National Recreation Area Cape Cod National Seashore
National Wildlife Refuges	Assabet River Great Meadows Mashpee Massasoit Monomoy Nantucket Nomans Land Oxbow Parker River Silvio O. Conte Thacher Island
Wild and Scenic Rivers	Assabet Concord Sudbury Taunton Westfield
Other protected areas	Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary Waquoit Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve West Hill Dam (USACE)

State parks

Parks	Alewife Brook Ames Nowell Ashland Bash Bish Falls Blackstone River and Canal Heritage Borderland Boston Harbor Islands Bradley Palmer C. M. Gardner Callahan Castle Island State Park Chicopee Memorial City Square Clarksburg Cochituate Connecticut River Greenway Demarest Lloyd Dighton Rock Dunn Ellisville Harbor Fall River Heritage Gardner Heritage Governor Thomas Dudley Great Brook Farm Greycourt Halibut Point Hampton Ponds Holyoke Heritage Hopkinton Lake Lorraine Lake Wyola Lawrence Heritage Lowell Heritage Lynn Heritage Massasoit Maudslay Moore Mount Holyoke Range Natural Bridge Nickerson Pearl Hill Pilgrim Quinsigamond Robinson Roxbury Heritage Rutland Skinner South Cape Beach Wahconah Falls Webb Memorial Wells Western Gateway Heritage Whitehall Wompatuck
Reservations	Beaver Brook Belle Isle Marsh Blue Hills Breakheart Charles River Chestnut Hill Cutler Dorchester Shores Elm Bank Fort Phoenix Hammond Pond Hemlock Gorge Horseneck Beach Jug End Lynn Shore Middlesex Fells Mount Everett Mount Greylock Mount Sugarloaf Mount Tom Myles Standish Mystic River Nahant Beach Nantasket Beach Nasketucket Bay Neponset River Pope John Paul II Purgatory Chasm Quincy Quarries Quincy Shore Revere Beach Rumney Marsh Salisbury Beach Sandy Point Scusset Beach Stony Brook Upper Charles River Wachusett Mountain Walden Pond West Island Weymouth Wilson Mountain
Other	Appalachian Trail Ashuwillticook Rail Trail Cape Cod Rail Trail Fort Revere Lake Dennison Recreation Area Lower Neponset River Trail Mass Central Rail Trail—Wayside Nashua River Rail Trail Norwottuck Branch Rail Trail Quabbin Reservoir Southwest Corridor Park Squantum Point Park Streeter Point Recreation Area Sudbury Reservoir Wachusett Reservoir Ware River Watershed Area

State forests

Wildlife management areas

Wildlife
management areas

Wildlife
sanctuaries

The Nature Conservancy
Black Pond Bog Boat Meadow Francis Newhall Woods Grassy Pond Greene Swamp Halfway Pond Island Hawley Bog Hockomock Swamp Hoft Farm Homer-Watcha Katama Plains McElwain-Olsen Miacomet Moors Reed Brook Roger and Virginia Drury Sandy Neck David H. Smith Preserve and Fire Trail Stacy Mountain Tatkon

Trustees of Reservations

Audubon Society wildlife sanctuaries

Other
Concord Land Conservation Trust Harvard Forest Lincoln Land Conservation Trust Lloyd Center for the Environment Lynn Woods Reservation Norcross Wildlife Sanctuary Old Harbor Wildlife Refuge

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Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs
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