Welcome

Our facility will be closed on Friday, March 22nd for an all-staff meeting.
Our building will reopen to the public at 10am on Saturday, March 23rd.

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

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.

Vacation Day: Earth and Beyond

How do you organize a space party? You planet! Space is an exciting place and we’ll spend our day launching into all sorts of astronomical knowledge through games and out-of-this-world experiments. […]

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Home School (Ages 9-14): Earth Day!

In celebration of Earth Day (April 22), we will team up with the younger homeschoolers to learn all about people who were and are like-minded in the role of conservation of natural resources. […]

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Home School (Ages 5-8): Happy Earth Day!

In honor of Earth Day, we’ll learn how we can make a positive difference towards the earth! We will learn about the people, including Aldo Leopold, who were important in conserving our resources in Wisconsin. […]

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Bicycling for the Earth and Your Health

Celebrate Monona’s Year of the Bike and Green Living month at the Aldo Leopold Nature Center with the next in our public lecture series on nature, climate, energy, and sustainability! Join special guest Maggie Grabow (PhD, MPH) from the University of Wisconsin’s Global Health Institute to learn about the environmental and human health benefits of bicycling.   There are […]

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Earth & Beyond

Our solar system is vast and contains many different worlds. Earth is unique because of one precious resource: water! Join us as we learn about why we have water on our planet, take some weather measurements and compare our planet with other planets in our solar system. Get ready to step into the shoes of an astronaut as we explore outer space! […]

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Earth & Beyond

Our solar system is vast and contains many different worlds. Earth is unique because of one precious resource: water! Join us as we learn about why we have water on our planet, take some weather measurements and compare our planet with other planets in our solar system. Get ready to step into the shoes of an astronaut as we explore outer space! […]

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Aldo Leopold Nature Center