GIVING TUESDAY!

Your gift to the River Center today will inspire children and adults to appreciate and steward nature for a lifetime!

Your gift today makes possible a robust curriculum of lively and engaging events, lectures and field trips on the beautiful Olympic Peninsula year-round!

Partnered with the Jamestown S'Klallam Tribe and National and local Audubon, the Dungeness River Nature Center is an educational facility that sits in a beautiful, natural woodland of cottonwoods, big leaf maples, alders and conifers at the edge of the swift and cold Dungeness River.

It's a forest and river sanctuary where people of all ages come to connect with nature.

Open 7 days a week, free to the public, the Center provides outdoor and indoor learning about river ecology, watershed restoration, fish culture, and bird and animal species and behaviors.

The Center's demonstrated values of environmental understanding and stewardship guides people on the path toward a well-informed future. Everything learned at the River Center can be applied to any watershed anywhere in the world.

Classes are led by experts in their field range from science-based curriculum to indigenous cultural history.

The new facility includes a 150-seat meeting room with a large crystal-clear screen and Zoom capability, catering kitchen, indoor and outdoor classrooms, exhibits, demonstration rain garden and Hurricane Coffee at the River, all connected with a two-story atrium. The Center's large patio can seat over 250 for lectures and entertainment on warm afternoons and under the stars.

A new 30-seat classroom, built in the conical shape of a traditional Northwest Coast cedar-woven hat, opens in late January to introduce children to the wonders of nature, including the salmon cycle and abundance of plants and animals in the Dungeness River watershed.

The River Center sits on over 80-acres at Railroad Bridge Park with a historic railroad trestle that crosses the Dungeness River a few feet from the Center. The trestle is part of the Olympic Discovery Trail built on a former railroad bed that stretches all the way across the north Olympic Peninsula. 

Access to the trail and park is from the Center's large parking lot, ecologically-built with rain gardens, filtration system and electric charging stations and  includes smooth, flat access to the paved trail and Center for pedestrians, cyclists, and those using wheelchairs and walkers.

The Dungeness River Nature Center's mission is to inspire understanding, respect, and stewardship of our natural and cultural resources.