After a two-year hiatus, the FOWL Dinner is back! Help us preserve our amazing urban oasis...and bring a friend! This annual event helps provide for everything from staffing to exhibits, and it plays a critical role in Wood Lake's success since 1990. This year's speaker is author and dark sky advocate Paul Bogard (professor of […]
Shop through two floors of local artisans, crafters, and farmers market vendors at this annual fall market. Raffles, arts and crafts projects, face-painting, and live music included!
Meet Wood Lake Nature Center's animal ambassadors up close! Learn about the reptiles and amphibians native to Minnesota that call Wood Lake home. See them move, watch them eat, and even feel their skin and shells! Make an animal craft to take home.
Don't miss the Hi Hat Trio playing their special brand of polka! Come ready to dance!
Come in costume to this old-fashioned Halloween party with games, treats, and refreshments! Help make fresh-pressed apple cider, play games, and go on a Halloween-themed scavenger hunt to earn a special "treat."
With less than 1% of Minnesota's natural prairie remaining, volunteers are critical in prairie plant seed collection to help maintain and restore Wood Lake's prairie. Join us to help this vital effort; training is provided.
Young explorers (ages 3-5) accompanied by an adult will have an exciting time exploring a different natural topic each visit, based on the season. Together with your child, enjoy stories, crafts, hands-on activities, and outdoor discovery time. Please dress for the weather as we will head outside rain or shine for each session. Online registration […]
Join Starry Skies North, Mike Lynch, and indigenous and cultural astronomers for family-friendly night-sky activities. Listen as author Paul Bogard reads his children's book, What If Night?. After that, you'll learn about indigenous star lore and make planispheres showing indigenous constellations, then stargaze using telescopes and your new planispheres. Learn how our night sky has been […]
Find out about urban coyote research that is going on right here at Wood Lake. Coyotes are remarkably successful at living in urban areas, but little is known about why it works. University of Minnesota PhD candidate Geoff Miller will share some of his research methods and findings.
A variety of music, from blues to rock and roll...with a little country thrown in for good measure! They rock the stage, and keep the dancers on the floor.
