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Photo: Christian Collins, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
A large visitors' center featuring (all indoors) a lookout over the river, exhibits, and hands-on nature-related toys. Outside there is a naturalistic play area for the kids and 19 miles of trails ranging from paved to rustic, and several restored historic buildings on site as well. Guided snowshoe hikes and maple syrup tapping in the winter.
Chippewa Nature Center (CNC) is both a 501(c)(3) non-profit educational organization and a protected wildlife area in the Lower Peninsula of Michigan, encompassing over 1,500 acres (6.1 km2) of forest, rivers and wetlands. Located in Midland County, it is one of the largest and most prominent private non-profit nature centers in the United States.
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This course is intermittently unavailable while they perform maintenance.
A three spoked footbridge over the Chippewa and Tittabawassee Rivers
One of many buildings in the town designed by the architect Alden B. Dow.
Whiting Forest
landscaped botanical garden. Includes the longest canopy walk in North America, opened in 2018.
MCFTA
Contains the three-level Alden B. Dow Museum of Science & Art as well as a performing arts theatre. Includes exhibits on media (record your own TV weather and news reports) and local politicians, as well as a kids maker space.