Meadowside Nature Center
5100 Meadowside Lane
(located in Rock Creek Regional Park)
Rockville, Maryland 20855
301-258-4030
Hours: Tuesday - Saturday 9:00am - 5:00pm
Located in Rock Creek Regional Park, Meadowside Nature Center offers hands-on natural and cultural history programs for families, schools, and scouts. Visitors can spend their time hiking our 8 miles of Nature Trails or visiting our owls, hawks, and American Bald Eagle in our Raptor Aviaries. Inside visitors can explore the diverse habits found in Maryland as they crawl through a cave or look at the world from a fish's point of view in our Legacy of the Land Exhibit. Our Curiosity Corner discovery room contains books, games, puzzles, and more live animals for young naturalists to explore nature in child-friendly environment. Visitors can also experience the lives of the Maryland pioneer and Eastern Woodland Indian families in our Legacy of the People exhibit were they can try on clothes, play games, and touch animal skins.
Self-guided groups are welcome to tour the Nature Center September through mid-June FREE. There is a $1 per child fee for self-guided groups of 10 or more from mid-June through August. Reservations are required for all groups visiting the nature center.
TEEN Summer Camps
Is your Teen looking for Summer fun or to earn SSL hours?
They can do both with Meadowside's NEW "TEEN Camps"
Spend four days and three nights in the great outdoors, learning all about your county parks while doing meaningful service projects (SSL-approved). By day, you’ll meet the folks who keep the parks running, from Park Managers and Park Police to natural resource experts. By night, you’ll swing through the trees at the Go Ape rope course; enjoy night hikes, campfires, and lots more! We’ll spend each night camping in beautiful Little Bennett Park. Come find out more about the big wide world Montgomery Parks has to offer!- SSL approved!
#177499 14-17yrs $350 6/26- 6/29 9:00am Tuesday - 2:00pm Friday
Click here to register!
iHike
Come with us to hike the entire Maryland section of the Appalachian Trail! We’ll start our 40-mile hike on the Maryland/Pennsylvania state line and head south along South Mountain, covering about 10 miles a day. During the day we’ll take in all the trail has to offer, including breathtaking views, local history, and some beautiful state parks. For two of the three nights, we’ll camp in shelters along the trail. On our second night, we’ll get some well-earned R&R when we tent camp at Greenbrier State Park, where we’ll enjoy swimming, canoeing and hot showers. Are you up for the challenge?
#177899 15-17yrs $400 7/10- 7/13 9:30am Tuesday - 5:00pm Friday
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MNC Summer Camps
Summer camps feature lively hands-on activities, games, nature walks, and crafts.
MNC offers both partial and full-day camps to meet the needs of you and your child.
Each week starts a new adventure. Come and be part of the fun!
Click here for summer camps!
Nature Everywhere
Nature Everywhere programs "take kids outside for science in the schoolyard."
Date of last update February 18, 2012
Montgomery County Department of Parks