Ogden Nature Center

The Ogden Nature Center is a 152-acre nature preserve and education center. Our mission is to unite people with nature and nurture appreciation and stewardship of the environment.

Since it was founded in 1975 as Utah's first nature center, the Ogden Nature Center has provided a place where wildlife can find refuge from urban development and where people can go to enjoy nature. The nature preserve is the foundation for all that we do.

The preserve is our foundation, but education is our focus. Each year the Ogden Nature Center brings more than 27,000 children, teachers, and adults together with nature through hands-on field classes. Participants in our education programs, both for school groups and for the community, observe and learn about plants and animals up-close, discovering the pleasure of being in nature and realizing their own connection to the environment.

Every year the Ogden Nature Center cares for hundreds of injured or orphaned wild birds through our bird rehabilitation program. Care is given until they are healthy enough to be released back into the wild.  Annually we care for approximately 700 birds, successfully releasing many of them back to nature.