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Meigs Point Nature Center offers programs and activities for park visitors on a year round basis. (see below)
The Center hours are 10am to 5pm Tuesday – Sunday, from April through October, and 10am to 4pm November through March from 10am to 4pm.
For information on programs, please contact Nature Center staff at (203) 245-8743.
Directions from inside park: To visit the Nature Center, bear to the left at the access road rotary, go halfway around the rotary and follow the signs toward Meigs Point. The Center is on the left across from the Meigs Point bathhouse. Parking is available near the building. Please note the Nature Center telephone number is answered by Nature Center staff that spend time working outside of the office. Please leave a message and your call will be returned.
December 3rd 11:00 Docent training for our Amphibian Election program
If you would like to help the Meigs Point Nature Center with our educational programs sign up for our docent training, call 203 245 8743
December 16th 6:00pm Campfire Stories
Join us for native stories, fables and marshmallows at the Meigs Point Nature Center. Bring a blanket and marshmallow stick.
January 21st 1:00pm Seal Search
Meet at the Meigs Point Nature Center and search for seals and waterfowl learn about these creatures of Long Island Sound
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Meigs Point Nature Center is an exciting and vital environmental learning center open to all ages at Hammonasset Beach State Park, one of the most beautiful sites within the Connecticut State Park system. Many of the programs at the Nature Center are funded through donations from the Friends of Hammonasset.
The Nature Center is host to a variety of native animals, including: turtles, snakes, amphibians, crabs and fish.
Most of the animals at the Nature Center are can not be released because of previous injuries or for other reasons, but are well cared for.
In season, there is a Touch Tank that allows some of the smaller wonders of the sea to be brought inside for up-close viewing and learning. All creatures in the Touch Tank are regularly rotated and then returned to Long Island Sound
Ranger Russ Miller is the director of the Meigs Point Nature Center.
Russ is a "natural" as Director of this Nature Center. His extensive environmental knowledge, as well as his ability to captivate and entertain people of all ages, allows the Nature Center to offer extremely popular, fun, informative, creative programs and events at our facility.
Come to Meigs Point or we'll come to you.
Ranger Russ' environmental education programs reach out into the greater community through his off-site presentations at schools, educational centers, scouting meetings and for other groups that regularly call the nature Center to set up presentations. Call today to have your group take part in these unique presentations.
