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Our facility is open on weekdays from 9am to 4pm and on weekends from 10am to 2pm.

As always, our grounds and trails featuring self-guided tours are free and open daily from dawn until dusk.

Trailside Backpacks

Enhance your exploration of nature with our Trailside Backpacks! This self-guided, year-round program is designed for groups to learn together as they explore the Aldo Leopold Nature Center trails and beyond. We’ll provide a backpack with ID books, activities, and all the tools you’ll need to engage with nature.

This program is FREE thanks to generous support from the Monona Tourism Commission.

Public hours are Monday through Friday, 9am to 4pm, and weekends 10am to 2pm. To ensure availability for large groups, please call in advance.

Disponible en Español.

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Every month, a Welcoming Schools e-newsletter makes its rounds at ALNC. This newsletter, written in-house by Ms. Ana and based on lessons from Welcoming Schools, shares, activities, talking points, and book recommendations that help to make our space inclusive. This month's theme is Embracing All Families and it’s a topic that comes up frequently as kids learn about each other. Sometimes children have a lot of questions when they engage with families that don’t look like their own. It’s important to have conversations with kids to help address the reality that not all kids experience life in the same way that they do.This month's activity encourages kids to reflect about what their family looks like. You can do this at home or in the classroom by having children draw a heart and then ask them to write or draw all the people in their lives who love them. Some great books that align with the theme and inspire conversation around family compositions include:‘And Tango Makes Three’ by Justin Richardson, lifting up families with two dads*‘Two Homes, One Heart’ by Jessica Young, lifting up families where the parents are separated‘A Tale of Two Mommies’ by Vanita Oelschalger, lifting up families with two moms‘Monkey Not Ready for the Baby’ by Marc Brown, lifting up families about to welcome a new baby‘A Family is a Family is a Family’ by Sara O'Leary, lifting up all types of families*Families come in all shapes and sizes and, at ALNC, we embrace them all! *Books that can be found on the 2022-2023 PEN America Index of School Book Bans. Photo: Aldo Leopold Nature Center#WelcomingSchools #Families #WIEnviroEd #NatureIsEverywhere #NatureIsForEveryone #EveryBodyOutside #ReadBannedBooks ...

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Our facility will be closed on Thursday, July 4th, and Friday, July 5th in observance of the Fourth of July holiday. Our building will reopen to the public at 10am on Saturday, July 6th.

Our facility is open on weekdays from 9am to 4pm and on weekends from 10am to 2pm.

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Aldo Leopold Nature Center

Our facility will be closed on Thursday, July 4th, and Friday, July 5th in observance of the Fourth of July holiday.
Our building will reopen to the public at 10am on Saturday, July 6th.