Ogden Nature Center

Constructed in 2004, The L. S. Peery Education Center is a 7,100 sq. ft. green building with classrooms, teacher preparation areas and volunteer space for the Nature Center’s extensive nature education programming.

The L.S. Peery Education Center is a model of sustainable and energy efficient design. Planned as an extension of its natural setting, the building uses a variety of materials and systems to demonstrate effective and attractive strategies of good environmental design.

The building takes advantage of the free energy of nature through thedaylighting, passive heating, and natural ventilation strategiesassisted by a solar chimney.

Like the adjacent Visitor Center, the Education Center uses salvagedtimbers and wood siding from the historic Lucin Cutoff, a 20-mile longrail trestle that formerly crossed the Great Salt Lake at a point8-miles directly west of the Nature Center.

Locally and organically grown straw bales are used in many of theexterior walls, protected by earthern plaster derived from local soils.Other unique materials include insulation from recycled blue jeans andnewspaper, cabinets constructed of panels made of sunflower seed shellsand wheat, and carpet constructed of recycled fiber.

Visitors are invited to take a self-guided tour and learn more from ourinterpretive signs inside the building. Open during regular NatureCenter hours: Monday through Friday 9-5 and Saturday 9-4.