The Marr Park Conservation Education Center will be busy with kids day camps this summer. There will be a tadpole camp for preschool and kindergarten aged kids. For 1st-3rd grade children the DragonFly Camp will take on the theme of Magic Treehouse and four of the books from that series will have nature activities based on them. 4th-8th graders will be participating in archery camp and the middle schoolers will have activities with MineCraft and Super Hero themes.

Besides hosting the camps, Washington County Naturalist Megan Jorgenson is excited for more visitors to see the center’s latest interactive displays, “So right before Covid hit, in November of 2019, we had new displays installed here at the nature center and so for awhile due to the shutdown we had our doors closed. And so now that COVID is hopefully behind us we have seen a lot more traffic in our nature center and so we do have new interactive displays here that we encourage everybody to stop in and check out.”

Summer hours are Tuesday through Thursday 8am-4pm and Friday and Saturday 9am-5pm.  Due to the busy time of the year the staff encourages you to call ahead of visiting the center.