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Cumming Nature Center
The Cumming Nature Center is a 900-acre environmental education facility offering themed hiking and exploring trails, educational programs, events and service-learning opportunities.
Owned by the Rochester Museum & Science Center (RMSC), the Cumming Nature Center is a 900-acre environmental education facility offering hiking and exploring trails, educational programs, events and service-learning opportunities.
Meander through the preserve's more than six miles of themed trails that will take you through wetlands, to an observation tower overlooking a 35-acre beaver pond, climbing forest roads and a hike through the past with a reconstructed 18th-century homestead and interpretive signs that tell of the lives of early settlers.
Check out inside the nature center with its several interactives clustered around a highly detailed mural by a regional artist depicting animals, birds, reptiles, amphibians and insects in their natural camouflaged habitat, challenging visitors to find them. There is also a permanent play space designed especially for preschoolers with over-sized frogs, turtles, tadpoles, lily pads, and mushrooms in a make-believe pond.
In the winter, enjoy 15 miles of groomed ski trails and a 3-mile loop for snowshoeing with the Hiking trails available if there's not enough snow to ski.
Meander through the preserve's more than six miles of themed trails that will take you through wetlands, to an observation tower overlooking a 35-acre beaver pond, climbing forest roads and a hike through the past with a reconstructed 18th-century homestead and interpretive signs that tell of the lives of early settlers.
Check out inside the nature center with its several interactives clustered around a highly detailed mural by a regional artist depicting animals, birds, reptiles, amphibians and insects in their natural camouflaged habitat, challenging visitors to find them. There is also a permanent play space designed especially for preschoolers with over-sized frogs, turtles, tadpoles, lily pads, and mushrooms in a make-believe pond.
In the winter, enjoy 15 miles of groomed ski trails and a 3-mile loop for snowshoeing with the Hiking trails available if there's not enough snow to ski.
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Naples, NY
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