List of nature centers in New Hampshire

This is a list of nature centers and environmental education centers in the state of New Hampshire, United States.

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Name	Location	County	Region	Summary
Amoskeag Fishways	Manchester	Hillsborough	Merrimack Valley	website, 130 acres (53 ha), environmental education center about the Merrimack River watershed, operated by New Hampshire Audubon, the State and the USFWS, located at Amoskeag Falls
Bear Brook State Park	Allenstown	Merrimack	Merrimack Valley	Over 10,000 acres (4,000 ha) extending into Deerfield, Hooksett, and Candia, small 4-H nature center
Beaver Brook Association	Hollis	Hillsborough	Merrimack Valley	2,100 acres (850 ha) located in Hollis, Brookline, and Milford, New Hampshire, education center
Great Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve	Greenland	Rockingham	Seacoast	Great Bay Discovery Center features exhibits about the estuary's natural history, salt marsh farming, salmon migration, plankton, tides and research
Harris Center for Conservation Education	Hancock	Hillsborough	Monadnock	website, land trust and education center, over 16 miles (26 km) of trails
Little Nature Museum	Hopkinton	Merrimack	Merrimack Valley	website, rocks, minerals, fossils, sea life, insects, Indian artifacts, mounted birds and mammals, interpretive trails
Loon Center	Moultonborough	Carroll	Lakes	website, exhibits, education and research about the state's Common loons and other wildlife, 200-acre (81 ha) Markus Wildlife Sanctuary, operated by the Loon Preservation Committee
Margret and H.A. Rey Center	Waterville Valley	Grafton	White Mountains	Programs in nature, art, science, astronomy, art gallery
Massabesic Audubon Center	Auburn	Rockingham	Merrimack Valley	website, 130 acres (53 ha), operated by New Hampshire Audubon
McLane Center	Concord	Merrimack	Merrimack Valley	website, 20 acres (8.1 ha), headquarters of New Hampshire Audubon
Newfound Audubon Center	Hebron	Grafton	Lakes	website, operated by New Hampshire Audubon, located on Newfound Lake; comprises the Paradise Point Nature Center (open in summer), Ash Cottage at Hebron Marsh Sanctuary and the Bear Mountain Sanctuary
Peabody Mill Environmental Center	Amherst	Hillsborough	Merrimack Valley	website, operated by town of Amherst, abuts almost 600 acres (240 ha) of the Joe English Reservation
Prescott Farm Environmental Education Center	Laconia	Belknap	Lakes	website, 160 acres (65 ha), features 3 miles (5 km) of trails, historic barn, heritage gardens, and an old-fashioned maple sugar operation
Seabrook Station's Science & Nature Center	Seabrook	Rockingham	Seacoast	website, located at the Seabrook Station Nuclear Power Plant, exhibits about nuclear energy and electricity, marine touch pool, nature trail
Seacoast Science Center	Rye	Rockingham	Seacoast	Located in 135-acre (55 ha) Odiorne Point State Park, marine life and science
Squam Lakes Natural Science Center	Holderness	Grafton	Lakes	180 acres (73 ha), environmental education center and accredited zoo
Tin Mountain Conservation Center	Albany	Carroll	Lakes	website, programs at Nature Learning Center and at the 228-acre Tin Mountain Field Station in Jackson, NH

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Protected areas of New Hampshire

Federal

National Historic Site	Saint-Gaudens

National Forests	White Mountain

National Trails	Appalachian Trail

National Wildlife Refuges	Great Bay John Hay Silvio O. Conte Umbagog Wapack

Other Protected Areas	Great Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve

State

State Parks	Ahern Androscoggin Annett Bear Brook Bear's Den Beaver Brook Falls Bedell Bridge Binney Pond Bradford Pines Cardigan Cathedral Ledge Chesterfield Gorge Clough Coleman Crawford Notch Crosby Mountain Curtiss Dogwood Daniel Webster Birthplace Deer Mountain Campground Dixville Notch Dublin Lake Echo Lake Eisenhower Memorial Ellacoya Endicott Rock Forest Lake Fort Constitution Fort Stark Franconia Notch Franklin Pierce Homestead Gardner Memorial Wayside Governor Wentworth Historical Site Greenfield Hampton Beach Hannah Duston Heath Pond Bog Humphrey's Ledge Jenness Jeremy Hill Jericho Mountain Kingston Lake Francis Lake Tarleton Madison Boulder Mascot Mine Milan Hill Miller Mollidgewock Monadnock Moose Brook Mt. Sunapee Mt. Washington Nansen Wayside North Hampton Northwood Meadows Odiorne Point Otter Brook Pawtuckaway Pillsbury Pisgah Plummer's Ledge Rhododendron Robert Frost Rollins Rye Harbor Sculptured Rocks Silver Lake Smith's Ferry Taylor Mill Umbagog Lake Wadleigh Wallis Sands Wantastiquet Mountain Weeks Wellington Wentworth Wentworth-Coolidge Mansion White Island White Lake Winslow

State Forests	Abbott Agnew Allen Alton Bay Ames Ammonoosuc Annett Annie Duncan Ashenden Ayers Ballard Bear Mountain Belknap Mountain Benton Big Island Black Mountain Blair Blue Job Mountain Bowditch-Runnels Cape Horn Cardigan Mountain Carroll Casalis Chemung Cilley Connecticut Lakes Connecticut River Contoocook Conway Common Lands Cowden Craney Hill Cushman Davisville Davis-White Devils Slide District #5 Dodge Brook Eaton Fall Mountain Fay Feuer Foster & Colburn Fox Gay George Duncan Gile Gilmore Goodwin-Chandler Grant Green Mountain Hamel Harriman-Chandler Haven Hemenway Hodgman Honey Brook Hubbard Hill Huston-Morgan Hyland Hill Kearsarge Mountain Lang Station Lead Mine Leighton Litchfield Little Pine River Livermore Falls Lord Pines Lovewell Mountain Low Marshall Mascoma Mast Yard Max Israel Meadow Pond Merrimack River Merriman Mt. Major Nash Stream Nottingham Nursery Opechee Bay Page Page's Corner Paugus Bay Percy Pine River Piscataquog Powwow River Prescott Province Road Ragged Mountain Reed's Ferry Rock Rimmon Russell Russell-Abbott Russell-Shea Saltmarsh Pond Sanborn Scribner-Fellows Second Presidential Sentinel Mountain Shadow Hill Shaker Shieling Sky Pond Soucook River Southeast Stevens Pines Strawberry Hill Sugar Hill Swain Taylor Totten Trails Upton Morgan Urban Forestry Center Vienna Smith Vincent Wade Walker Welton Falls West Iron Works Road White Farm William Thomas Woodman

Other

Other	Lost River Reservation Proctor Wildlife Sanctuary Sheldrick Forest Preserve

New Hampshire Department of Resources and Economic Development (web)

Nature centers in the United States

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