Pre-planned programs offered throughout the year for kids, teens, and parents with activities including fishing, sports, crafts, boating, campfires, entertainment; and good food.   See upcoming dates at Year-Round Programs. 

Learn to kayak with intro and advanced classes in How to Eskimo Roll, strokes, surfing, rescues and more. Guided tours also available on Lake Erie, Chautauqua Lake and Outlet, and the Conewango River.

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Learn about local history, lake ecology, taking care of you, and a whole lot more through short-term and special series classes offered through Jamestown Community College's Department of Continuing Education.

Surely you’ve heard:  all the research says that kids who spend time outside are healthier!  And what better place to spend time outside than at your local Audubon Center.

A monthly program for children aged 3-8 years old and their favorite grownups held every 2nd Saturday from 10am-noon.  Each 2-hour nature session includes a lesson, a walk, a snack, and a craft.  Visit Little Explorers for more information.

The Marshal Martz Memorial Astronomical Association, Inc. is a non-profit organization devoted to the amateur astronomer. Public nights at the Observatory are open for all to enjoy.

Roger Tory Peterson began his lifelong interest in birds in the woods and fields of Jamestown. Some of the places he came to know intimately in the 1920’s are much the same today. Join todays birding experts for workshops and tours of Roger’s old birding haunts. 

Visit the Sugar Shack and enjoy a nature walk through a hardwood forest on the edge of Lake Erie.