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Highlands Nature Center

Daily Programs

Date: Daily, Starting June 2nd (Closed Sundays)
Times: Vary
Location: Highlands Nature Center | 930 Horse Cove Rd.

Free | No registration required

Storytime with Ms. KK on select Tuesdays:
July 15 and July 29
All other Tuesday Storytime programs will be lead by our Naturalists.

Wednesday Garden Tours are geared toward adults, but all other daily programs are family-friendly!

 

Zahner Conservation Lecture Series

Cohabitate; Living with Nature

Date: Thursday, July 10th
Time: 6:00-7:00 pm
Location: Highlands Nature Center | 930 Horse Cove Rd.

FREE | No registration required

Featured Speaker: Sonya Carpenter, Co-founder and President of Co-habitate Inc.

Nature Center Nights

Salamander Meander

Date: Tuesday, July 15th
Time: 8:00-9:00 pm
Location: Highlands Nature Center | 930 Horse Cove Rd.

All ages welcome
FREE | Registration required
(Weather dependent)

Join our Naturalists on a nighttime search for our secretive salamander friends.

Zahner Conservation Lecture Series

Lesser Known Medicinal Mushrooms of the Southern Appalachians

Date: Thursday, July 17th
Time: 6:00-7:00 pm
Location: Highlands Nature Center | 930 Horse Cove Rd.

FREE | No registration required

Featured Speaker: Christopher Parker, Mycologist and Co-Owner The Forest Farmacy

Nature Center Nights

What Bat is That?

Date: Tuesday, July 22nd
Time: 8:00-9:00 pm
Location: Highlands Nature Center | 930 Horse Cove Rd.

All ages welcome
FREE | Registration required
(Weather dependent)

Stretch your wings and tune into the sounds of the many special bats of the Highlands area! Join our Naturalists on a walk through the Botanical Garden to watch them in flight.

Zahner Conservation Lecture Series

Understanding Helene as a Geologic Event in Southern Appalachia... and What is a "Geologic Event" Anyway?

Date: Thursday, July 24th
Time: 6:00-7:00 pm
Location: Highlands Nature Center | 930 Horse Cove Rd.

FREE | No registration required

Featured Speaker: Philip S. Prince, Ph.D., Project Geologist, Appalachian Landslide Consultants, PLLC, Virginia Tech Department of Geosciences

Nature Center Nights

Salamander Meander

Date: Tuesday, July 29th
Time: 8:00-9:00 pm
Location: Highlands Nature Center | 930 Horse Cove Rd.

All ages welcome
FREE | Registration required
(Weather dependent)

Join our Naturalists on a nighttime search for our secretive salamander friends.

Zahner Conservation Lecture Series

The Good, the Bad & the BUGly

Date: Thursday, July 31st
Time: 6:00-7:00 pm
Location: Highlands Nature Center | 930 Horse Cove Rd.

FREE | No registration required

Featured Speaker: Dr. Kelly Oten, Assistant Professor and Extension Specialist, NC State University

Nature Center Nights

What Bat is That?

Date: Tuesday, August 5th
Time: 7:45-8:45 pm
Location: Highlands Nature Center | 930 Horse Cove Rd.

All ages welcome
FREE | Registration required
(Weather dependent)

Stretch your wings and tune into the sounds of the many special bats of the Highlands area! Join our Naturalists on a walk through the Botanical Garden to watch them in flight.

Zahner Conservation Lecture Series

Finding the Fabulous Ordinary

Date: Thursday, August 7th
Time: 6:00-7:00 pm
Location: Highlands Nature Center | 930 Horse Cove Rd.

FREE | No registration required

Featured Speaker: Georgann Eubanks, author, University of North Carolina Press

Nature Center Nights

Salamander Meander

Date: Tuesday, August 12th
Time: 8:00-9:00 pm
Location: Highlands Nature Center | 930 Horse Cove Rd.

All ages welcome
FREE | Registration required
(Weather dependent)

Join our Naturalists on a nighttime search for our secretive salamander friends.

Zahner Conservation Lecture Series

Southern Appalachian Forest Resilience in a Post Hurricane World

Date: Thursday, August 14th
Time: 6:00-7:00 pm
Location: Highlands Nature Center | 930 Horse Cove Rd.

FREE | No registration required

Featured Speaker: Megan Sutton, The Nature Conservancy, Southern Blue Ridge Program Director

Please note that this page does not list our summer courses or workshops.